The Conference on Stochastic Differential and Difference Equations held
at Gyor, Hungary, August 21-24,1996 was organized jointly by Eotvos
Lonind University, Budapest and Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, with
the sponsorship of the Hungarian Regional, the International Executive
and the European Regional Committees of the Bernoulli Society as a
satellite event to the 4th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society,
August 26-31, 1996, Vienna, Austria. It is noteworthy that the meeting
had a strong international flavour with 76 participants from 21
countries, including 6 each from Japan and the USA. The core of the
conference consisted of the 14 invited lectures, delivered by
distinguished experts in their research fields. The majority of
contemporary research areas have been covered in these lectures. The
list of the invited speakers included T. Duncan, M. Fukushima, T.
Funaki, 1. Gyongy, R. Khasminskii, 1. Kubo, H. Kunita, A. Lindquist, D.
Nualart, R. Ober, M. Pavon, G. Picci, T. SubbaRao, M. Zakai. Invited
lectures were presented in plenary sessions, while the con- tributed
papers were presented in two parallel sessions. The first session was
devoted to various problems of stochastic partial differential equations
(SPDE) and related random fields. The second session covered discrete
and continuous time parameter ARMA processes and stochastic differen-
tial equations in general. The Szechenyi Istvan College in Gyor provided
the venue of the event, seemingly the satisfaction of the participants.