The Third International Conference on Mathematical Models of Nonlinear Excitation, Transport, Dynamics and Control in Condensed Systems and Other Media convened in Tver, Russia, on June 30, 1998. This five day conference had its genesis in a three day Workshop which met in Tver during the summer of 1994, and a subsequent five day meeting in summer 1996 which was entitled Second International conference. A report on that meeting appeared in llansport Theory and Statistical Physics 26, 379–382 (1997). Obviously, the unusually lengthy title of the Conference invites some controversy. Your reporter believes a more appropriate name would be “International Conference on Mathematical Models in Nonlinear Statistical Mechanics”, and hopes the Conference organizers will consider such a relabeling.