• Associate Professor Steve Armfield, University of Sydney;
• Professor Bassam Dally, University of Adelaide;
• Associate Professor Tilak Chandratilleke, Curtin University of Technology, Perth;
• Emeritus Professor Graham de -ahl Davis, The University of New South Wales, Sydney,
  Past Chairman and Chairman of the Organising Committee of the
  13th International Heat Transfer Conference, Sydney, 2006;
• Dr Jamil Ghojel, Monash University, Melbourne;
• Richard Gilchrist, Private Practice, Melbourne - Newsletter Editor;
• Professor John Patterson, James Cook University, Townsville - Secretary;
• Adjunct Professor Reizes, University of Technology, Sydney - Chairman;
• Professor John Sheridan, Monash University, Melbourne - Treasurer,
  Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference.

The two most important tasks which were the concern of the Committee were the organisation of the 8th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference in 2003 and the 13th International Heat Transfer Conference in 2006.

Unfortunately, the organisation of the 8AHMTC fell apart and it is for this reason that the newsletter has not appeared; we were waiting for some news on that conference before publication. In October 2003, Professor Sheridan resigned from the Committee and was replaced as Treasurer in March this year. Associate Professor Tilak Chandratilleke has agreed to organise this Conference in July 2005 in Perth and we are now confidently looking forward to it.

Planning for the 2006 Conference is well in hand. The venue at Darling Harbour has been booked and Professional Conference Organisers have been appointed. The Organising Committee is working on the details of the conference and the event has begun to take shape. These conferences, held every four years (the last was in Grenoble, France), attract up to 1000 delegates and with Sydney being voted No. 1 city in the world for the fourth consecutive year by Conde Naste Travel Awards in the UK and the World^Rs Best City in the 2003 Travel and Leisure World^Rs Best Awards, IHTC-13 is likely to be a big drawcard.

I therefore apologise on behalf of the AFTES Committee to all members of AFTES that the newsletter has not appeared for so long and will ensure that it appears regularly in the future.

Now, to other matters. The Institution of Engineers Australia, now known as Engineers Australia (EA), considers that its Technical Societies, of which AFTES is one, should provide EA members with their Continuing Professional Development in the area of expertise of the Technical Society. Traditionally, AFTES has provided this by means of conferences. However, a conference in heat transfer run by AFTES every three years and a major international conference on fluid mechanics also run every three years by ad hoc committees does not appear to provide adequate CPD for our members. I have therefore suggested that Video Streaming of Keynote Lectures from other conferences might be a useful way of keeping members up-to-date.

I obtained permission from Begell House International, who has the copyright for the International Conference on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer held in April 2004 and from the Keynote Speakers to videotape the keynote addresses and put them on the web.

I propose to have a particular keynote address available on the web for one to two months. At the end of that time it would be replaced by another one. We are at present in negotiation with EA as to how this might be done. If this experiment is successful it should be possible to organise similar videotaping at other conferences to keep you informed of the latest developments in fluid mechanics and heat transfer.

AFTES needs information from you as to your interests and what it is you feel that the Society should be doing for you and what might be the best way of delivering CPD. I would welcome contribution from members for the newsletter as well as suggestions as to what should be included on our web page and the way that the Society may better serve its members. Please email me at John.Reizes@uts.edu.au.

Although rather late, I would like to bring to the notice of members the 15th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference which was held at the University of Sydney between the 13th and 17th of December, and I draw your attention to the reports of recent conferences with which AFTES has had an association - CHT'01, 14 AFMC and CHT-04 - which have been placed on our website http://www.aftes.org.au/

John Reizes