Main Speakers David Blecher (U. of Houston) Nathanial Brown (Pennsylvania State U.) Ken Davidson (U. of Waterloo) Uffe Haagerup (U. of Southern Denmark) Marius Junge (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Nigel Kalton (U. of Missouri at Columbia) Jerry Kaminker (IUPUI) Judith A. Packer (U. of Colorado) Sorin Popa (UCLA) Gelu Popescu (U. of Texas at San Antonio) Dimitri Shlyakhtenko (UCLA) Sergei Treil (Brown U.)