Dear friends, After our meeting and after having the agreement of my wife, finally I have decided to accept the proposal of Klaus Brunnstein of chairing the IPC of WCC 2006. I wish to thank all of you for your comments in favour and against my acceptation of this charge. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi@uib.es =========================================================================