European Science Notes Information Bulletin Reports on Current European/Middle Eastern Science

ESNIB is a compilation of reports on recent developments in European science of specific interest to the U.S. research and development community. Partial contents: ACHEMA'88 -- Biotechnology Conference; Thermodynamics applied to biological systems -- International symposium; Symposium -- Dynamics of protein development and function; BIOTECH' 88 Conference; 1st Conference on Advances in Purification of Recombinant Proteins; NATO Workshop on Fluid Mechanics -- New trends in nonlinear dynamics and pattern forming phenomena -- The geometry of nonequilibrium; 4th Oxford Conference on the mechanical properties of materials properties at high rates of strain; International Conference on Interaction of Steels with Hydrogen in Petroleum Industry Pressure Vessel Service; The European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, Toulouse, France; A mathematician's perspective on Trondheim University and SINTEF; Mathematics and scientific computing in Bergen, Norway; National Physical Lab., Teddington, U.K.; The Physikalische Technische Bundanstalt, Braunschweig, West Germany; 11th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy; Structural Dynamics Computational Models Group; Superconductivity and related research at the University of Goettingen; The Deutsche Bundespost -- Organization and research. (EDC)