The Fifth Conference on Function Spaces at SIUE

Participants

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	Paul Abraham e-mail: pabraham@stark.kent.edu Personal URL: http://local.stark.kent.edu/~pabraham Departmental URL: http://local.stark.kent.edu/math/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Stark Campus 6000 Frank Ave NW North Canton, 44720 OH, USA

	Trond A. Abrahamsen e-mail: trond.a.abrahamsen@hia.no Personal URL: http://home.hia.no/~trondaa Departmental URL: http://www.hia.no/realfag Department of Mathematics Agder University College 4604 Kristiansand, Norway

	Maria Dolores Acosta Vigil e-mail: dacosta@ugr.es; current e-mail: macosta1@memphis.edu Departmental URL: http://www.ugr.es/%7Edpto_am/Welcome_en.html Department of Mathematical Analysis University of Granada 18071 Granada, Spain	Title: On boundaries on some algebras of holomorphic functions Abstract:

	Jeronimo Alaminos Prats e-mail: alaminos@ugr.es Departmental URL: http://www.ugr.es/%7Edpto_am/Welcome_en.html Department of Mathematical Analysis University of Granada 18071 Granada, Spain	Title: Homomorphisms and derivations on C-algebras Abstract:*

	Yakov Alber e-mail: alberya@tx.technion.ac.il, alberya@yahoo.com Departmental URL: http://www.math.technion.ac.il/newmath/department.html Department of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel	Title: James orthogonality and orthogonal decompositions of Banach spaces Abstract:

	Fernando Albiac e-mail: albiac@math.missouri.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/ Mathematics Department 202 Mathematical Sciences Bldg University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211-4100 USA	Title: A characterization of real C(K)-spaces. Abstract:

	Jesus Araujo Gomez e-mail: jesus.araujo@unican.es Personal URL: http://www.araujo.tk/ Departmental URL: http://www.matesco.unican.es/ Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Cantabria Avda. de los Castros s/n E-39005 Santander Cantabria, Spain	Title: Stability and superstability of operators between spaces of continuous functions Abstract:

	Jorma Arhippainen e-mail: jarhippa@sun3.oulu.fi Departmental URL: http://math.oulu.fi/ Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Oulu 90014 Oulu, Finland	Title: On proper subalgebras of C_0(X) Abstract:

	Hugo Arizmendi Peimbert e-mail: hugo@matem.unam.mx Personal URL: Departmental URL: http://www.matem.unam.mx Instituto de Matemáticas, U.N.A.M. Área de la investigación científica, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria Coyoacán 04510, México, D.F. México	Title: On joint topological invertible elements Abstract:

	Richard Aron e-mail: aron@math.kent.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/~aron/ Departmental URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 44242	Title: Squares of functions with unusual behavior Abstract:

	Dragu Atanasiu e-mail: dragu.atanasiu@hb.se Departmental URL: http://www.ing.hb.se Högskolan i Borås Allegatan 1, Borås Sweden	Title: An integral representation of Bochner type on an involutive algebra Abstract:

	Christopher Atkin e-mail: atkin@mcs.vuw.ac.nz Departmental URL: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand	Title: Bases and Confinement Abstract:

	Pradipta Bandyopadhyay e-mail: pradipta@isical.ac.in Personal URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~pradipta/ Departmental_URL: http://www.isical.ac.in/~statmath Stat-Math Division Indian Statistical Institute 202, B. T. Road Kolkata 700108, India	Title: Almost constrained subspaces of C(K) Abstract:

	Turgay Bayraktar e-mail: turgay@math.metu.edu.tr Departmental_URL: http://www.math.metu.edu.tr/ Department of Mathematics Middle East Technical University Ankara 06531, Turkey

	Joel Beil e-mail: jbeil@math.kent.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 44242

	Oscar Blasco de la Cruz e-mail: Oscar.Blasco@uv.es Personal URL: http://www.uv.es/oblasco Departmental URL: http://www.uv.es/~anamat/ Departamento de Análisis Matemático University of Valencia Dr. Moliner nº 50 46100 Burjassot - Valencia, SPAIN	Title: Norm estimates for operattors from H^{p} to l^{p} Abstract:

	David P. Blecher e-mail: dblecher@math.uh.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.uh.edu/~dblecher/ Departmental URL: http://www.math.uh.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3476	Title: Noncommutative function spaces Abstract:

	Sarita Rajesh Bondre e-mail: rs_bondre@yahoo.com Departmental URL: http://www.msubaroda.ac.in Department of Applied Mathematics The M.S. University of Baroda Vadodara, Gujarat, 390001 India	Title: Structural Properties of Spaces of Fuzzy Number Valued Function Abstract:

	Eggert Briem e-mail: briem@rhi.hi.is Personal URL: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~briem/ Departmental URL: http://www.raunvis.hi.is/RaunvisHomeE.html Department of Mathematics University of Iceland Institute of Science, 3 Dunhaga 107 Reykjavik, Iceland	Title: Separation properties for sequence spaces of continuous functions Abstract:

	Qingying Bu e-mail: qbu@olemiss.edu Personal URL: http://home.olemiss.edu/~qbu/ Departmental URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/mathematics/ Department of Mathematics University of Mississippi MS 38677, USA	Title: On Banach spaces verifying Grothendieck's theorem Abstract:

	Gabriela Bulancea e-mail: gbulancea@hotmail.com Departmental URL: http://www.cayey.upr.edu/ Department of Mathematics and Physics University of Puerto Rico in Cayey Puerto Rico	Title: On the stability of logmodularity for uniform algebras Abstract:

	Diana Caponetti e-mail: d.caponetti@math.unipa.it Departmental URL: http://math.unipa.it/menu.htm Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Palermo Via Archirafi, 34, I-90123 Palermo, Italy	Title: On Wośko problem in Banach spaces Abstract:

	Antonia Cardwell e-mail: Antonia.Cardwell@millersville.edu Personal URL: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~cardwell/ Departmental URL: http://marauder.millersville.edu/~math/ Department of Mathematics Millersville University P.O. Box 1002 Millersville, PA 17551-0302, USA	Title: A new proof of a lemma by Phelps Abstract:

	Pete Casazza e-mail: pete@math.missouri.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/personnel/faculty/casazzap.html Departmental URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/ Mathematics Department 202 Mathematical Sciences Bldg University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211-4100 USA	Title: The Kadison-Singer Problem in Mathematics and Engineering Abstract:

	John F. Case e-mail: john.case@umontana.edu Departmental URL: http://www2.umt.edu/math Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1032, USA	Title: Shift-Invariant Algebras on Groups for Which Classical Complex Analysis Theorems Fail Abstract:

	Simon R. Cowell e-mail: simon@math.missouri.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/ Mathematics Department 202 Mathematical Sciences Bldg University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211-4100 USA

	Stuart Cullender e-mail: scullender@maths.wits.ac.za Personal URL: http://www.maths.wits.ac.za/scullender.html Departmental URL: http://www.maths.wits.ac.za/ School of Mathematics Wits University WITS 2050, South Africa	Title: Unconditional martingale difference sequences in a Banach space Abstract:

	Geoff Diestel e-mail: gad018@mizzou.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/~mathgr40/ Departmental URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/ Mathematics Department 202 Mathematical Sciences Bldg University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211-4100 USA

	Joe Diestel e-mail: j_diestel@hotmail.com Departmental URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 44242	Title: A representation theorem WITH an application Abstract:

	Ian Doust e-mail: i.doust@unsw.edu.au Personal URL: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~iand Departmental URL: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au School of Mathematics University of New South Wales UNSW Sydney, NSW, 2052 Australia	Title: Commuting decompositions in L^p -spaces Abstract:

	Sudipta Dutta e-mail: sudipta@cs.bgu.ac.il Personal URL: http://www.math.bgu.ac.il/~sudipta Departmental URL: http://www.math.bgu.ac.il Department of Mathematics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, 84105 Israel	Title: Strongly proximinal subspaces of Banach spaces Abstract:

	Moncef Dziri e-mail: moncef.dziri@iscae.rnu.tn Departmental URL: www.univgb.rnu.tn Department of Mathematics The University of Gabes Gabes, Tunisia

	Mahmoud Mohammed Mostafa El-Borai e-mail: m_m_elborai@yahoo.com Departmental URL: http://www.facofsc.com/Math_staff.htm Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science Alexandria University 21511 Alexandria, Egypt	Title: On some fractional integro-differential equations Abstract:

	Jose Extremera e-mail: jlizana@ugr.es Departmental URL: http://www.ugr.es/%7Edpto_am/Welcome_en.html Department of Mathematical Analysis University of Granada 18071 Granada, Spain	Title: Applications of Kazhdan's property to the characterization of the topology of real L^{p}(μ) Abstract:

	Joel F. Feinstein e-mail: jff@maths.nott.ac.uk Personal URL: http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/jff/ http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/htbin-local/staff.info?jff Departmental URL: http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/ School of Mathematical Sciences University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD, England	Title: Normed algebras of differentiable functions on compact plane sets Abstract:

	Aderaw Fenta e-mail: afenta@math.kent.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 44242, USA	Title: Lacunary Power Series in the spaces C and L_{p} Abstract:

	Richard J. Fleming e-mail: flemi1rj@cmich.edu Personal URL: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/users/flemi1rj/ and http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/mth/gradinfo/Pp/MthRFLEMING.html Departmental URL: http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/mth/ Department: Mathematics Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 48859

	Jan H. Fourie e-mail: wskjhf@puk.ac.za Departmental URL: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/natuur/rsw/index_e.html School of Computer, Statistical and Mathematical Sciences North West University (Potchefstroom Campus) Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom 2520, North West Province South Africa	Title: On (p,q)-multiplier functions Abstract:

	Maria Fragoulopoulou e-mail: fragoulop@math.uoa.gr Personal URL: http://www.math.uoa.gr/web/english/faculty/alg-geo/fragoul.htm Departmental URL: http://www.math.uoa.gr/ Department of Mathematics University of Athens Panepistimioupolis GR-157 84, Athens Greece	Title: Unbounded -representations of tensor product locally convex -algebras Abstract:

	Nadia J. Gal e-mail: nadiagal@memphis.edu Departmental URL: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152	Title: Isometric Equivalence of some matrix operators Abstract:

	Pablo Galindo Pastor e-mail: galindo@uv.es Departmental URL: http://www.uv.es/anamat Departamento de Análisis Matemático Facultad de Matematicas University of Valencia 46100 Burjasot - Valencia, Spain	Title: Bounding sets in Banach spaces Abstract:

	Theodore W. Gamelin e-mail: twg@math.ucla.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~twg/ Departmental URL: http://www.math.ucla.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of California Los Angeles Box 951555 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555	Title: Composition Operators on Uniform Algebras Abstract:

	Gilles Godefroy e-mail: gig@ccr.jussieu.fr Personal URL: http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/eqanalyse/Users/Godefroy/ Departmental URL: http://web.ccr.jussieu.fr/eqanalyse/ University of Paris VI Equipe d'Analyse Boite 186 4 Place Jussieu 75005 Paris, Cedex 05 France	Title: Invariant subspaces and the exponential map Abstract:

	Stanislaw Goldstein e-mail: goldstei@math.uni.lodz.pl Departmental URL: http://www.math.uni.lodz.pl/main/english/ Faculty of Mathematics University of Lodz ul. Banacha 22 90-238 Lodz, Poland

	J.J. Grobler e-mail: srsjjg@puk.ac.za Departmental URL: http://www.puk.ac.za/fakulteite/natuur/bwi-nav/index_e.html Unit for Business Mathematics and Informatics North West University (Potchefstroom Campus) Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom 2520, North West Province South Africa	Title: Bivariate Banach function spaces Abstract:

	Niels Gronbaek e-mail: gronbaek@math.ku.dk Personal URL: http://www.math.ku.dk/cgi-bin/indiv?id=gronbaek;lang=dk Departmental URL: http://www.math.ku.dk/ma/en/ University of Copenhagen Institute of Mathematical Science Universitetsparken 5 DK-2100 Copenhagen, 0 Denmark	Title: Cohomology of Banach algebras of operators on a Banach space Abstract:

	Karl Grosse-Erdmann e-mail: kg.grosse-erdmann@fernuni-hagen.de Personal URL: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/ANALYSIS/e-personal/e_erdmann.html Departmental URL: http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/MATHEMATIK/mathe.html Department of Mathematics FernUniversitaet Hagen 58084 Hagen, Germany	Title: The weighted Hardy inequality on the monotonic cone Abstract:

	Renu Gupta e-mail: Rgupta@lsua.edu Departmental URL: http://www.lsua.edu/ Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Louisiana State University at Alexandria Alexandria LA 71302, USA

	Ugar Gul e-mail: ugul@metu.edu.tr Departmental URL: http://www.math.metu.edu.tr/ Department of Mathematics Middle East Technical University Ankara 06531, Turkey

	Marina Haralampidou e-mail: mharalam@math.uoa.gr Personal URL: http://www.math.uoa.gr/web/english/faculty/alg-geo/mharal.htm Departmental URL: http://www.math.uoa.gr/ Department of Mathematics University of Athens Panepistimioupolis GR-157 84, Athens Greece	*Title:* Strong semisimplicity and finite-dimensionality in Ambrose algebras Abstract:

	Rachid El Harti e-mail: relharti@hotmail.com University URL: http://www.uh1.ac.ma/ Department of Mathematics Hassan I University 26000 Settat, Morocco	Title: **Extensions of sigma-C-algebras* Abstract:**

	Osamu Hatori e-mail: hatori@math.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp Departmental URL: http://www.niigata-u.ac.jp/ Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science Niigata University Niigata Ikarashi, Japan	Title: Spectrum-preserving maps and isomorphisms Abstract:

	Matt Heath e-mail: pmxmjh@nottingham.ac.uk Departmental URL: http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/ School of Mathematical Sciences University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD, England	Title: Compact and weakly compact derviations and cohomolgy for Banach algebras Abstract:

	Alexander Yakovlevich Helemskii e-mail: alexander@helemskii.mccme.ru Departmental URL: http://mech.math.msu.su/English/ Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics & Mathematics Moscow, 119899GSP Russia	Title: Quantum functional analysis in the non-matricial presentation Abstract:

	Dai Homma e-mail: f05n004j@mail.cc.niigata-u.ac.jp Departmental URL: http://www.niigata-u.ac.jp/ Department of Mathematical Science Graduate School of Science and Technology Niigata University Niigata Ikarashi, 950-2181, Japan	Title: Surjections on the algebras of continuous functions which preserve peripheral spectrum Abstract:

	Yasuo Iida Personal URL: http://eagle-mcr.iwate-med.ac.jp/iida/iidaE.html Departmental URL: http://www.iwate-med.ac.jp/ e-mail: yiida@iwate-med.ac.jp Department of Mathematics School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Iwate Medical University 3-16-1 Honcho-dori, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan	Title: On a class of holomorphic functions on the upper half plane Abstract:

	Farhad Jafari e-mail: fjafari@uwyo.edu Personal URL: http://www.uwyo.edu/jafari/ Departmental URL: http://math.uwyo.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071-3036	Title: Holomorphic flows, cocycles and coboundaries in simply connected domains Abstract:

	James E. Jamison e-mail: jjamison@memphis.edu Personal URL: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/faculty/jamisonj.html Departmental URL: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152	Title: Bicircular Projections, Hermitian Operators, and Nakano Spaces Abstract:

	Krzysztof Jarosz e-mail: kjarosz@siue.edu Personal URL: http://www.siue.edu/MATH/~kjarosz/ Departmental URL: http://www.siue.edu/MATH/ Department of Mathematics and Statistics Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville, IL 62026-1653

	William B. Johnson e-mail: johnson@math.tamu.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bill.johnson/ Departmental URL: http://www.math.tamu.edu/ Texas A & M University Department of Mathematics 3368 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3368	Title: Revisiting Grothendieck's "AP implies MAP theorem" Abstract:

	Nigel Kalton e-mail: nigel_kalton@yahoo.com Personal URL: Departmental URL: http://www.math.missouri.edu/ Mathematics Department 202 Mathematical Sciences Bldg University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211-4100 USA	Title: Extension of linear operators into C(K)-spaces Abstract:

	Anna Kaminska e-mail: kaminska@msci.memphis.edu Personal URL: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/faculty/kaminskaa.html Departmental URL: http://www.msci.memphis.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152	Title: Isomorphic ℓ^{p}-subspaces in Orlicz-Lorentz sequence spaces Abstract:

	Robert Kantrowitz e-mail: rkantrow@hamilton.edu Departmental URL: http://www.hamilton.edu/ Department of Mathematics Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323

	Hakki Turgay Kaptanoglu e-mail: kaptan@fen.bilkent.edu.tr Personal URL: http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~kaptan/ Departmental URL: http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~cvmath/ Department of Mathematics Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey	Title: Toeplitz Operators on Arveson and Dirichlet Spaces Abstract:

	Oleksiy Karlovych e-mail: oleksiy@math.uminho.pt Departmental URL: http://www.math.uminho.pt Department of Mathematics Escola de Ciencias University: Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar Braga, Portugal	Title: Algebras of functions with Fourier coefficients in Orlicz spaces and asymptotics of Toeplitz determinants Abstract:

	Alexander A. Katz e-mail: katza@stjohns.edu Departmental URL: http://www.stjohns.edu Department of Mathematics & Computer Sc. St. John's University 300 Howard Ave., DaSilva Hall 314 Staten Island, 10301 NY, USA	Title: On real locally C-algebras and locally JB-algebras and their connections with complex locally C-algebras Abstract:

	Jukka Kauppi e-mail: jtkauppi@mail.student.oulu.fi Departmental URL: http://math.oulu.fi/ Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Oulu 90014 Oulu, Finland	Title: Approximation Properties for Subalgebras of C_0(X) Abstract:

	Liaqat Ali Khan e-mail: akliaqat@hotmail.com Personal URL: http://liaqat.adtime.co.uk/ Departmental URL: http://www.kaau.edu.sa/faculties/science/math/ Department of Mathematics King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia	Title: The general strict topology on topological modules Abstract:

	Kiyotaka Kobayashi e-mail: top-of-the-pops@cronos.ocn.ne.jp Departmental URL: http://www.niigata-u.ac.jp/ Department of Mathematics Graduate School of Science and Technology Niigata University Japan	Title: Surjections on C^{+}(X) which preserve subdistance Abstract:

	Mienie de Kock e-mail: mdekock@math.kent.edu Personal URL: www.math.kent.edu/~mdekock Departmental URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 44242

	Miyeon Kwon e-mail: kwonmi@uwplatt.edu Personal URL: http://www.uwplatt.edu/%7Ekwonmi/ Departmental URL: http://www.uwplatt.edu/math/ Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Platteville Platteville, WI 53818, USA

	Coenraad Labuschagne e-mail: cola@maths.wits.ac.za Personal URL: http://www.maths.wits.ac.za/clabuschagne.html Departmental URL: http://www.maths.wits.ac.za/ School of Mathematics Wits University WITS 2050, South Africa	Title: Aspects of measure free martingale theory on vector lattices and Banach spaces Abstract:

	Scott Lambert e-mail: scott.lambert@umontana.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.umt.edu/lambert/Site/Home.html Departmental URL: http://www.umt.edu/math/ Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1032	Title: Norm-Multiplicativity and Algebraic Isomorphisms Abstract:

	Denny H. Leung e-mail: matlhh@nus.edu.sg Personal URL: http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~matlhh/index.html Departmental URL: http://ww1.math.nus.edu.sg/ Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore	Title: Classifying Weak L^p spaces isomorphically Abstract:

	Vegard Lima e-mail: Vegard.Lima@hia.no Personal URL: http://home.hia.no/~vegardl/ Departmental URL: http://www.hia.no/realfag/ Department of Mathematics Agder University College 4604 Kristiansand, Norway	Title: Compact local reflexivity and approximation properties Abstract:

	Aaron Luttman e-mail: luttman@mso.umt.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.umt.edu/luttman/ Departmental URL: http://www2.umt.edu/math/ Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Montana Missoula, 59808 MT, USA	Title: Algebra Isomorphisms and Ran_{π}-multiplicavity Abstract:

	Jasbir Singh Manhas e-mail: manhas@squ.edu.om Personal URL: http://www.squ.edu.om/sci/Math/index.html Departmental URL: http://www.squ.edu.om/sci/Math/index.html Department of Mathematics & Statistics Sultan Qaboos University College of Science, P.O. Box. 36 Postal Code 123, Al-Khod Muscat, Sultanate of Oman	Title: Compact differences of weighted composition operators on weighted Banach spaces of analytic functions. Abstract:

	Valeria Marraffa e-mail: marraffa@math.unipa.it Departmental URL: http://math.unipa.it/menu.htm Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Palermo Via Archirafi, 34, I-90123 Palermo, Italy	Title: Stochastic processes of weakly measurable functions and absolutely summing operators Abstract:

	Martin Mathieu e-mail: m.m@qub.ac.uk Personal URL: http://www.qub.ac.uk/mm Departmental URL: http://www.qub.ac.uk/mp/pmr/ Queen's University Belfast Department of Pure Mathematics Belfast, BT7 1NN No Ireland	Title: Towards a non-selfadjoint version of Kadison's theorem. Abstract:

	John McCarthy e-mail: mccarthy@wustl.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.wustl.edu/~mccarthy Departmental URL: http://www.math.wustl.edu/ Department of Mathematics Washington University St Louis, MO 63130

	Kristel Mikkor e-mail: kristel.mikkor@ut.ee Departmental URL: http://www.math.ut.ee Departement of Mathematics and Computer Sciences Tartu University J. Liivi 2-218 50409 Tartu, Estonia	Title: Factorization of weakly compact sets of Banach spaces of operators. Abstract:

	Takeshi Miura e-mail: miura@yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp Departmental URL: http://www.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/index-eng.html Faculty of Engineering Yamagata University 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa-shi Yamagata 992-8510 Japan	Title: On the maximal ideal spaces of commutative C-algebras in which certain algebraic equation is solvable Abstract:*

	Alfonso Montes Rodriguez e-mail: amontes@us.es Departmental URL: http://www.matematicas.us.es/ Departamento Analisis Matematico Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla 41080, Spain	Title: Counterexamples to the Kreiss Matrix Theorem in Banach spaces and on Hilbert spaces Abstract:

	Luiza Amália de Moraes e-mail: luiza@im.ufrj.br Departmental URL: http://www.im.ufrj.br/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro CP 68530 Rio de Janeiro RJ 21945-970 Brazil	Title: On boundaries on the predual of the Lorentz sequence space Abstract:

	Ryan Mullen e-mail: mullen@math.uconn.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.uconn.edu/~mullen Departmental URL: http://www.math.uconn.edu Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut Mansfield, CT, USA	Title: A^p is not an algebra Abstract:

	Michael M. Neumann e-mail: neumann@math.msstate.edu Personal URL: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/Math/faculty/neumann.html Departmental URL: http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/Math/ Department of Mathematics & Statistics Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762	Title: When do quasi-similar operators have the same essential spectrum? Abstract:

	Olav Nygaard e-mail: olav.nygaard@hia.no Personal URL: http://home.hia.no/~olavn/ Departmental URL: http://www.hia.no/realfag/index.php3?menu_id=1 Department of Mathematics Agder University College Gimlemoen 25j 4604 Kristiansand, Norway	Title: Bounded variation in terms of additivity Abstract:

	Eve Oja e-mail: eve.oja@ut.ee Personal URL: http://math.ut.ee/pmi/inimesed/ojaeng.html Departmental URL: http://www.math.ut.ee Departement of Mathematics and Computer Sciences Tartu University J. Liivi 2-218 50409 Tartu, Estonia	Title: Approximation properties of Banach spaces and the Radon-Nikodym property Abstract:

	Mikhail Ostrovskii e-mail: ostrovsm@stjohns.edu Personal URL: http://facpub.stjohns.edu/ostrovsm/ Departmental URL: http://www.stjohns.edu/ Department of Mathematics and Computer Science St. John's University 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439, USA	Title: Isometric classification of Sobolev spaces on graphs Abstract:

	Fabila Maria de Lourdes Palacios e-mail: pafa@xanum.uam.mx Departmental URL: http://mat.izt.uam.mx/Pagina_actual/portada.htm / Department of Mathematics Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) Iztapalapa (Ixtapalapa) Campus 09340 México DF, Mexico	Title: On the boundary of the topological invertible elements Abstract:

	Imre Patyi e-mail: ipatyi@gsu.edu Personal URL: http://mathstat.gsu.edu/~matixp/ Departmental URL: http://www.mathstat.gsu.edu/ Department of Mathematics Georgia State University 30303-3083 Atlanta, Georgia, USA	Title: On complex Banach submanifolds of a Banach space Abstract:

	Henrik Petersson e-mail: henripet@math.chalmers.se Departmental URL: http://www.chalmers.se/math/EN/ School of Mathematical Sciences Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, Sweden

	Richard Rochberg e-mail: rr@math.wustl.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.wustl.edu/~rr/ Departmental URL: http://www.math.wustl.edu/ Department of Mathematics Washington University St Louis, MO 63130	Title: Pick's Theorem for Hardy spaces on Multiple Connected Domains Abstract:

	Hector N. Salas e-mail: salas@math.uprm.edu Departmental URL: http://math.uprm.edu/ Department of Mathematics University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, 00681 Puerto Rico

	Bert Schreiber e-mail: bert@math.wayne.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.wayne.edu/~bert Departmental URL: http://www.math.wayne.edu Department of Mathematics Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202, USA	Title: Topological Algebras of Random Elements Abstract:

	Evgeny M. Semenov e-mail: nadezhka_ssm@geophys.vsu.ru Departmental URL: http://www.vsu.ru/english/academics/faculties/math/index.htm Department of Mathematics Voronezh State University Voronezh, 394006 Russia	Title: Banach-Saks index Abstract:

	Peter Semrl e-mail: Peter.Semrl@fmf.uni-lj.si Personal URL: http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/~semrl/ Departmental URL: http://mat.fmf.uni-lj.si/index_en.php Department of Mathematics University of Ljubljana 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia	Title: Maps on idempotent operators Abstract:

	David Sherman e-mail: dsherman@math.ucsb.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~dsherman Departmental URL: http://www.math.ucsb.edu Department of Mathematics University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA	Title: Approximate equivalence in von Neumann algebras Abstract:

	Zbigniew Slodkowski e-mail: zbigniew@uic.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.uic.edu/ Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607, USA	Title: On continuity of semigroups of holomorphic maps Abstract:

	Tabrina Smith e-mail: tsmith@math.kent.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.kent.edu/ Department of Mathematics Kent State University Kent, OH 4424	Title: Porosity and Ranges of Operators Abstract:

	Andrzej Soltysiak e-mail: asoltys@amu.edu.pl Departmental URL: http://www.wmid.amu.edu.pl/en/welcome.html Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University 61-614 Poznan, Poland	Title: On the joint spectral radius in locally convex algebras Abstract:

	Emily Sprague e-mail: esprague@uwc.edu Personal URL: http://www.richland.uwc.edu/Depts/Math/emily_sprague.htm Departmental URL: http://richland.uwc.edu/Depts/Math/index.html Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin Colleges Richland Center, Wisconsin 53581, USA	Title: An application of Uniform Integrability to the Characterization of Walsh Fourier series Abstract:

	Franciszek Hugon Szafraniec e-mail: Franciszek.Szafraniec@im.uj.edu.pl Departmental URL: http://www.im.uj.edu.pl/en/ Institute of Mathematics Jagiellonian University 300-59 Krakow, Poland	Title: Quadrature for analytic polynomials Abstract:

	Wee-Kee Tang e-mail: wktang@nie.edu.sg Personal URL: http://math.nie.edu.sg/tangwk/ Departmental URL: http://math.nie.edu.sg/ National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University 1 Nanyang Walk Singapore	Title: On Baire 1 Functions Abstract:

	Thomas V. Tonev e-mail: TonevTV@mso.umt.edu Personal URL: http://www.math.umt.edu/tonev/ Departmental URL: http://www.umt.edu/math/ Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812-1032	Titles: (1) Isomorphic Algebra Isomorphisms and peripheral spectra (2) Holomorphic Flows and Cocycles in Multiply Connected Domains Abstracts:

	Camillo Trapani e-mail: trapani@unipa.it Personal URL: http://math.unipa.it/~trapani/title.htm Departmental URL: http://math.unipa.it/menu.htm Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Palermo Via Archirafi, 34, I-90123 Palermo, Italy

	Vladimir G. Troitsky e-mail: vtroitsky@math.ualberta.ca Personal URL: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~vtroitsky Departmental URL: http://www.math.ualberta.ca Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G1 Canada	Title: Transitive collections of operators Abstract:

	Alexei Vladimirovich Uglanov e-mail: uglanov@uniyar.ac.ru University URL: http://www.spbstu.ru/english/index.html Department of Mathematics Saint-Petersburg State Technical University Politechicheskaya, b. 29 Saint-Petersburg, Russia	Title: On Hilbertian Supports of Gaussian Measures Abstract:

	Irfan Ulhaq e-mail: ulhaqi@uwplatt.edu Departmental URL: http://www.uwplatt.edu/math/ Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Platteville Platteville, WI 53818, USA

	Prasada Vegulla e-mail: prasad@math.wustl.edu Departmental URL: http://www.math.wustl.edu/ Department of Mathematics Washington University St Louis, MO 63130	Title: Geometry of distinguished varieties Abstract:

	Armando Reyes Villena Munoz e-mail: avillena@ugr.es Departmental URL: http://www.ugr.es/%7Edpto_am/Welcome_en.html Department of Mathematical Analysis University of Granada 18071 Granada, Spain	Title: Banach algebras generated by groups of operators Abstract:

	Keiichi Watanabe e-mail: wtnbk@math.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp Departmental URL: http://mathweb.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp/ Department of Mathematics Niigata University Ikanrashi 2 no cho, 950-218 Niigata, Japan	Title: An analogue of Takesaki duality for spectral subspaces Abstract:

	Marshall Whittlesey e-mail: mwhittle97@yahoo.com Personal URL: http://www.csusm.edu/mwhittle Departmental URL: http://www.csusm.edu/Math Department of Mathematics California State University San Marcos 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Road San Marcos, 92096 CA, USA	Title: Solutions to Riemann-Hilbert problems which lie in boundaries of polynomial hulls Abstract:

	Marek Wojtowicz e-mail: mwojt@ukw.edu.pl Departmental URL: http://matematyka.ab.edu.pl/ Institute of Mathematics Casimir the Great University Bydgoszcz, 85-072 Poland	Title: Semi-homogeneous bases in Orlicz sequence spaces Abstract:

	Ngai-Ching Wong e-mail: wong@math.nsysu.edu.tw Personal_URL: http://www.math.nsysu.edu.tw/~wong/index-en.html Departmental URL: http://www.math.nsysu.edu.tw/ Department of Applied Mathematics National Sun Yat-sen University Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan	Title: Compact disjointness preserving operators Abstract:

	Geoffrey V. Wood e-mail: G.V.Wood@swansea.ac.uk Personal URL: http://www-maths.swan.ac.uk/staff/gvw/ Departmental URL: http://www-maths.swan.ac.uk/ Department of Mathematics University of Wales Swansea Swansea, Singleton Park Wales, UK SA2 8PP	Title: Three conjectures on Banach space norms Abstract:

	Andriy Zagorodnyuk e-mail: andriyzag@yahoo.com Departmental URL: http://www.nipissingu.ca/mathematics/ Nipissing University 100 College Drive, Box 5002 North Bay, Ontario, Canada P1B8L7	Title: Spectra of Algebras of Entire Functions on Banach Spaces Abstract:

	Wieslaw Zelazko e-mail: zelazko@impan.gov.pl Departmental URL: http://www.impan.gov.pl/ Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences 00-950 Warsaw, Poland	Title: Ideals in topological algebras: open problems and some recent results Abstract:

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