• ICSA and LFCS will co-host a reception for new staff and postgraduate students in Informatics JCMB, in Rooms 2510/2511 from 4 pm on Friday 8 October. All staff and postgraduates are invited to attend.

• Nigel Topham will be on leave of absence for the 1999-2000 academic year, to be Principal Architect for the development of a new processor by Siroyan Technologies Ltd.
• Farewell to Lawrence Williams, who departed on 1 October to take up a new position in Cumbria.
• Welcome to Adam Donlin, already a Ph.D. student, who now joins the staff as an RA on the Ecole project from 1 October.
• Welcome to four new postgraduates starting in October:
  • Seung Woon Chang (Korea)
  • Ahmad Shuja (Oxford)
  • Long Shun (China)
  • Simon Taylor (Bath).