At ICCS 2006, there's another interesting workshop called Advances in Parameter Estimation in Computational - Science http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ees/iccs/ Perhaps, we could try to establish a connection between this workshop and the AD workshop. Don't know exactly what could be done ... Martin -- Martin Buecker buecker@sc.rwth-aachen.de Institute for Scientific Computing phone: +49 241 8024919 RWTH Aachen University fax: +49 241 8022241