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The Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods was held on March 29-April 4, 1998. Over 200 mathematicians born all over the world attended the meeting. (See attached list of participants). No matter how well organized, a conference is only as good as the talks presented. Under that measure this meeting was a great success. The quality and diversity of the talks was excellent. During the five day meeting 138 taIks on current research topics were presented (see the Fhal Program which is located at the front of Volume I of the attached Proceedhgs). Talks with similar content were organized into sessions. Session topics included:

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