We are delighted to report that we had the largest CMS meeting ever! There were 395 registered participants, with another 20-25 others participating in a special Educational Workshop that was organized in parallel to the CMS meeting. Thus, there were well over 400 people taking part in the activities of the meeting, and that doesn't count the members of the general public who swelled the crowd of over 200 who came to Kingston's historic Memorial Hall on the evening prior to the official start of the conference, to hear an inspiring lecture by Donald Coxeter.

H. Darmon (McGill) gave the Coxeter-James Lecture entitled "Recent progress in the theory of elliptic curves." The Doctoral Prize lecture, "Lacunae for hyperbolic differential operators with variable coefficients" was delivered by Y. Berest (Berkeley). Plenary talks were given by M. Csorgo (Carleton), Z. Furedi(University of Illinois at Urbana), W. Goldman (University of Maryland) and D. O'Shea (Mt. Holyoke College).

The Scientific Programme was both broad and deep (there were over 200 speakers in 16 sessions). We were able to profit from Kingston's favourable location between Montreal and Toronto, to have two of the larger sessions be extensions of special activities at the Centre de Recherches in Montreal (the Number Theory session organized by R. Murty and N. Yui of Queen's, and partially supported by the CRM) and the Fields' Institute in Toronto (the Probability session organized by M. Csorgo of Carleton and partially supported by the Fields Institute). Those sessions each had over 25 speakers.

There was also a session in Discrete Geometry (organized by R.Erdahl, (Queen's) R. Connelly, (Cornell) M. Senechal, (Smith) and W. Whiteley, (York)) with over 30 speakers, some from as far away as Russia, and E. Campbell (Queen's) organized a mammoth Topology session (with four distinct subsessions, one in Differential Geometry and Global Analysis organized by M. Min-Oo and M. Wang(McMaster), one in Homotopy Theory organized by L. Langsetmo (Ottawa) and J. Shank (Queen's), one in Set Theoretic Topology organized by J. Steprans and S. Watson (York) and another in Symplectic/Low Dimensional Topology organized by S. Boyer (UQAM), J. Hurtubise (McGill), and F. Lalonde (UQAM)) which had over 50 speakers. There was also a CMS sponsored session in Algebraic Geometry (organized by P.Milman,(Toronto)), another in Extremal Combinatorics (organized by D. deCaen, (Queen's)) and a third in Education (organized by G. and M. Orzech, (Queen's)). A special session on Mathematics on the Internet(organized by J. Lester, (UNB), N. Sinclair (Queen's) and M. Dubiel (Simon Fraser) and supported by PIMS and the Fields Institute) attracted a great deal of favourable interest.

Modest support from Queen's and the Royal Military Academy allowed for other excellent sessions in Operator Algebras (organized by J. Mingo, Queen's) and Multivalued Logic (organized by L. Haddad, RMC). The parallel workshop in Mathematics Education (organized by G.and M. Orzech, and W. Higginson (Queen's) and funded by the Fields Institute) even attracted school teachers, present and future! Also, L. Haddad organized the session of contributed papers.

Anthony Geramita and David Wehlau
Meeting Directors