We are pleased to announce that the Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK) will be hosting the 26th International Conference on DomainDecomposition Methods (DD26) in Hong Kong, China on December 2-6,2019. The purpose of the conference is to bring togethermathematicians, computational scientists and engineers who work in themain themes of Domain Decomposition, which include theoretical,algorithmic and implementation aspects of domain decompositionmethods, solvers for multiphysics problems, parallel-in-time methods,multigrid and multilevel methods, fast solvers and preconditioning, and applications of such methods in physics and engineering, and so on.

Local Organizing Committee:
- Jianfeng Cai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Raymond Chan, City University of Hong Kong
- Zhiming Chen, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Eric T. Chung (General Secretary), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Felix Kwok (Communications Secretary), Hong Kong Baptist University
- Ronald Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Michael K. Ng, The University of Hong Kong
- Jinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University
- Tieyong Zeng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Jun Zou (Chair), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Plenary Speakers (confirmed):
- Eric Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Victorita Dolean, Universite Cote d'Azur, France and Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
- Zdenek Dostal, Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia
- Adrianna Gillman, Rice University, USA
- Laurence Halpern, Universite Paris 13, France
- Rolf Krause, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Ulrich Langer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Carola Schonlieb, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Xuemin Tu, University of Kansas, USA
- Mary Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Shuonan Wu, Peking University, China

Registration will open shortly. In the meantime, we would like to extend our invitation for your participation and contributions. We are now ready to receive proposals for minisymposia that fit the themes of Domain Decomposition. Please provide a title, a short description of the subject matter, and a list of speakers for the minisymposium. Minisymposia may span one or more sessions, with each session consisting of four 25-minute talks, with an additional 5 minutes after each talk for questions. Please submit your proposals as a plain text email to dd26@math.cuhk.edu.hk before June 15, 2019.

For more information, please visit the conference website atwww.math.cuhk.edu.hk/conference/dd26, or email to dd26@math.cuhk.edu.hk.