This is a preliminary announcement of the first
  
             PACIFIC NORTHWEST NUMBER THEORY CONFERENCE
  
  which will be held at
  
             Reed College, Portland, Oregon
  
  on
  
             Saturday, April 5.
  
  The following speakers will give one hour talks:
  
             David Boyd, University of British Columbia
             Ralph Greenberg, University of Washington
             Hendrik Lenstra, Jr., University of California, Berkeley
             Peter Stevenhagen, University of Amsterdam.
  
  
  This conference follows in the successful tradition of ``Pacific 
  Northwest'' conferences in geometry and topology.  This is the first 
  Pacific Northwest number theory conference, and we hope that this will 
  become an annual event.
  
  Talks will start at 10:30am and be finished by 5pm.  Lunch and snacks 
  will be provided.  Registration will be $15 ($0 for students).
  
  No official arrangements will be made for dinner, or hotel/motel
  accommodations, or basketball tickets, or opera tickets ("Carmina 
  Burana" and "I Pagliacci" are being performed by the Portland Opera 
  Company Saturday evening), but the organizers will be happy to assist 
  attendees who need help with arrangements for any of these.
  
  Please let one of the organizers of the conference know if you plan to
  attend, or if you want to be on the mailing list for the final announcement
  which will be mailed early in March.
  
  
  Joe Buhler                        Tom Schmidt
  Department of Mathematics         Department of Mathematics 
  Reed College                      Oregon State University
  Portland, OR 97202                Corvallis, OR 97331
  jpb@reed.edu                      toms@math.orst.edu