Florida, USA, contact Katherine Ruelle,+1 403 288 1195, calgary@iasted.com,http://www. iasted. com/confer-ences/2001/tampa/pes.htmIEEE Global Communications

Conference (GLOBECOM), 25-29November, San Antonio, Texas, USA,contact Gayle Weisman, IEEE Commu-nications Society, 305 East 47 Street,New York, NY 10017 USA, +1 212 7058941, fax +1 212 705 8999, e-mailg.weisman@comsoc.org, Web http:!!www.Globecom200 1 .com

IEE International Conference onAC and DC Transmission, 28-30 No-vember, London, UK, contact JoanneGriffiths, IEE, Savoy Place, LondonWC2R OBL, UK, +44 0171 344 5467,fax +44 0171 240 8830, e-mailacdcOl@iee.org.uk (PES is a TechnicalCosponsor)

December 2001Gas and Electricity Networks:

Complementary or Competition,Cigre international symposium, 3-6 De-cember, Iguaqu, Brazil, contact CigreCentral Office, 21 Rue d'Artois, F 75008Paris, France, +33 1 53 89 12 90, fax +331 53 89 12 99, e-mail sales-meetings@cigre.org

Eighth International Middle-EastPower Systems Conference(MEPCON), 29-31 December, Univer-sity of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, contactOmar H. Abdalla, MEPCON generalsecretary, Faculty of Engineering -

Helwan, P.O. Technology, Postal No.11792, 1 Sherif Street, Helwan, Cairo,Egypt, +20 2 555 8413, fax +20 2 5558294, e-mail ohabdalla@ieee.org (PESis a Technical Cosponsor)

January 2002IEEE PES Winter Meeting, 27-31

January, New York City, New York,USA, contact F.E. Schink, +1 908 2768847 (Sponsored by PES)

February 2002DistribuTECH, 27 February-I

March, Miami Beach Convention Cen-ter, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, contactDistribuTECH Registration, 1421 S.Sheridan Road, Tulsa, OK 74112-6600USA, +1 888 299 8057 (USA), +1 918831 9160 (elsewhere), fax +1 918 8319161, e-mail distributech@pennwell.com, Web http://www.distributech.com

March 2002Seventeenth IEEE Applied Power

Electronics Conference (APEC 2002),

10-14 March, Dallas, Texas, USA,sponsored by the IEEE Power Electron-ics Society, the IEEE Industry Applica-tions Society, and the Power SourcesManufacturers Association, contactAPEC 2002, 2000 L Street, Suite 710,Washington, DC 20036 USA, + 202 9738664, fax +1 202 331 0111, e-mail apec@courtesyassoc.com, Web http://www.apec-conf.org

Seventh EPRI Distributed Re-sources Conference and Exhibition,17-21 March, Dallas, Texas, USA, con-tact Laura Goldie, P.O. Box 10412, PaloAlto, CA 94303 USA, +1 650 855 2560,fax +1 650 855 2287, e-mail lgoldie@epri.com

Transmission and DistributionConference and Exhibition - LatinAmerica, 18-22 March, Sao Paulo,Brazil, contact J.A. Jardini, AvenueLuciano Gualberto, trav. 3, no 158, salaA2-44, 05508-900, Sao Paulo-SP,Brazil, +55 11 3818 5537, fax +55 113672 0768, e-mail jardini@t-d20021america@ieee.org, Web www.ieee.org.br/t-d20021america (Cosponsored byPES)

April 2002Western Power Delivery Automa-

tion Conference, 2-4 April, Spokane,Washington, USA, contact Kelly New-ell, Washington State University confer-ences, P.O. Box 645222, Pullman, WA99164-5222 USA, +1 509 335 3530 (+1

IEEE Power Engineering Review, September 2001

800 942 4978 in USA), fax +1 509 3350945, e-mail knewell@wsu.edu, Webhttp://capps.wsu.edu

May 2002Industrial and Commercial Power

Systems Technical Conference, 5-8May, Savannah, Georgia, USA, contactLouis Powell, GE Power Systems En-ergy Consulting, Schenectady, NewYork, USA, +1 518 385 2999, fax +1 518385 9529, e-mail louie.powell@ieee.org

Congress on Evolutionary Compu-tation (CEC), 12-17 May, Hilton Ha-waiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.Contact David Fogel, Natural Selection,Inc., 3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct., Suite 200,La Jolla, CA 92037 USA, e-maild.fogel@ieee.org

2002 IEEE International Confer-ence on Fuzzy Systems(FUZZ-IEEE02), 12-17 May, HiltonHawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii,USA. Contact David Fogel, Natural Se-lection, Inc., 3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.,Suite 200, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA,email d.fogel@ieee.org

2002 International Joint Confer-ence on Neural Networks (IJCNN),12-17 May, Hilton Hawaiian Village,Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Contact DavidFogel, Natural Selection, Inc., 3333 N.Torrey Pines Ct., Suite 200, La Jolla, CA92037 USA, e-mail d.fogel@ieee.org

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2001 Middle-East Power Systems Conference29-31 December 2001Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

The eighth international Middle-East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON2001) will be held 29-31 December 2001 at the University of Helwan, Helwan,Cairo, Egypt. It is sponsored by the University of Helwan, the IEEE Power Engi-neering Society, and the IEEE Egypt Section. The objective of the conference is toprovide a forum for presentation and discussion of current progress and futuredevelopments in key areas of electrical power systems. Topics include:

* Planning, design, and operation of generation systems* Planning, design, and operation of transmission and distribution systems* Deregulation and management* Electrical machines and drives* Switchgear, protection systems, and measurements* High voltage engineering* Power system control and stability* Power electronics* Renewable energies* Computer and artificial intelligence applications in power systems.For more information, contact Omar H. Abdalla, general secretary of MEPCON

2001, Faculty of Engineering - Helwan, P.O. Technology, Postal No. 11792, 1Sherif Street, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt, +202 5558413, fax +202 5558294, e-mailohabdalla@ieee.org.