Volume II of the Proceedings of the First Spanish Conference for Earthquake Engineering (Murcia, 1999) has just been published by AEIS (pp. 373).  It contains the reports of the 9 Invited Conferences and Special Theme Sessions that were presented during the Conference. Selling price is 37.86 EURO plus mailing expenses.  Interested persons please check with secretaria@aeis.es to order it.

 The 2nd Ibero-American Conference on Earthquake Engineering (AIBIS-2) was held last October in Madrid, sponsored by AEIS.  About 170 people (half of them from Latin America) attended the event. A CD-Rom containing the papers presented at the Conference (over 110) can be ordered from AEIS at the above e-mail.  The purchase price is 30 EURO plus mailing expenses.

Professors Rafael Blazquez and Roberto Leon have been appointed President and Vice-president, respectively, of The Ibero-American Association for Earthquake Engineering (A.I.B.I.S) for the period 2001-2005. The 3rd Ibero-American Conference (AIBIS 3) shall take place in Atlanta during the year 2005.  Professor V. Bertero who opened the Madrid Conference was specially honored at the event as Honorary President of AIBIS.

Rafael Blázquez

President