The 23rd Annual Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 28 - June 1, 2003

Visitor's Guide  |   Program  |   List of registered participants

Invited speakers

At this moment the following main speakers have agreed or tentatively agreed to give 50-minute plenary talks:

William Arveson University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hari Bercovici Indiana University, USA
Marius Dadarlat Purdue University, USA
Kenneth Dykema Texas A&M University, USA
Edward G. Effros University of California, Los Angeles, USA
George Elliott University of Toronto, Canada
Eberhard Kirchberg Humboldt University, Germany
Paul Muhly University of Iowa, USA
Gilles Pisier Texas A&M University and Paris VI, France
Mikael Rordam University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Demark
Roger Smith Texas A&M University, USA
Masamichi Takesaki University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Guoliang Yu Vanderbilt University, USA
Alfons van Daele Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

In addition to the main speakers, we plan to have a number of invited 30-minute talks. We also plan parallel sessions for a limited number of 20-minute contributed talks.

Organizers

Florin Bocafboca@math.uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois
Marius Junge junge@math.uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois
Zhong-Jin Ruan ruan@math.uiuc.eduUniversity of Illinois
Please send general enquiries to gpots03@math.uiuc.edu

Sponsors

This conference is financially supported by Department of Mathematics at UIUC, National Science Foundation, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).

Information about applying to IMA for financial support

Participants from IMA Sponsor Institutions (see www.ima.umn.edu/partic2.html/#inst for the list) can have their expenses directly reimbursed from IMA. For this, they first need to obtain written (E-mail is fine) approval from their department chair, authorizing the use of PI funds to support their travel expenses. This approval should be sent to:
Ines Foss
Institute for Mathematics & its Applications
University of Minnesota
Accounting Office
400 Lind Hall
207 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-624-1629 -phone
612-626-7370 -fax
Foss@ima.umn.edu -email

Next, the IMA will send the reimbursement form to the participants. They will have to complete this form after the conference and submit it to Ms. Foss along with the required receipts in order to be reimbursed.

Accommodation Information

Registration form

Registration fee

Travel Information


Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
273 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Telephone: (217) 333-3350    Fax (217) 333-9576