Dear Colleagues, this is the second, and last, announcement for the

V Conference on Banach Spaces

to be held in Caceres during the week 13-17 September 2004. Most of the available information can be found at the web-site

http://matematicas.unex.es/conference/banach

which will be periodically updated. Caceres is beautiful town at the north of Extremadura. It is well connected with Madrid by bus or train; the distance is about 300Km. The Old Town of Caceres is part of the World Heritage, and anyone interested can get a virtual tour at the address

http://www.iespana.es/paseovirtual/patrimonio1.htm

The Scientific Committee of the V Conference is formed by

Fernando Bombal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Maria Jesus Carro, Universidad de Barcelona; Jesus M.F. Castillo, Universidad de Extremadura; Manuel Gonzalez, Universidad de Cantabria; William B. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Robert Phelps, University of Washington and Angel Rodriguez Palacios, Universidad de Granada.

The main topics of the Conference are:

Geometrical methods in Banach spaces: renormings, convexity, isometric properties, Hilbert spaces, orthogonality, local theory...

Homological methods: exact sequences and twisted sums, derived functors, categorical properties of Banach spaces, Tensor products, Ultraproducts, abstract interpolation...

Topological methods: cardinality and set-theoretic properties, Lipschitz, uniform ... structures in Banach spaces, topological vector spaces...

Operator theory: operator ideals, semigroups of operators, spectral theory, interpolation, operator spaces and C*-algebras...

Function spaces: infinite dimensional holomorphy, continuous functions on Banach spaces, Banach, Fréchet .. spaces of continuous functions, lattices...

The following mathematicians have accepted to participate delivering invited lectures:

S. Argyros, Athens, Greece F. Cobos, Madrid, Spain P. Domanski, Poznan, Poland M. Girardi, St.Louis, USA G. Godefroy, Paris, France N. J. Kalton, Missouri, USA W. B. Johnson, Texas A&M, USA A. Molto, Valencia, Spain J. P. Moreno, Madrid, Spain P. L. Papini, Bologna, Italy A. Pelczynski, Warszawa, Poland R. Phelps, Washington, USA H. O. Tylli, Helsinki, Finland L. Weis, Karlsruhe, Germany J. Wengenroth, Trier, Germany.

There will be sections devoted to shorter talks and communications. The abstract submission form can be found at the home page. There is a fee of 150 euros and the possibility of a combined offer: fee + accommodation at the Residencia Munoz Torrero, which includes breakfast and meal, by 300 euros. Again, the details about methods of payment and the different options can be found at the home page. The Organization is negotiating the publication of the Proceedings volume with some international publishers.

Please take notice the following deadlines:

* Deadline for submission of abstract: 15 June 2004

* Deadline for reduced rate registration: 15 June 2004

For any further information you may need, do not hesitate to contact any member of the organization: Felix Cabello (fcabello@unex.es), Jesus M. F. Castillo (castillo@unex.es), Ricardo Garcia (rgarcia@unex.es) or send a mail to the address

banach@unex.es

There is a limited number of grants available. Applications can be sent with just a message to the previous address.

The Conference is sponsored by:

Departamento de Matematicas de la Universidad de Extremadura Diputacion de Caceres Junta de Extremadura Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia Real Sociedad Matematica Española.

We hope to meet you at Caceres

On behalf of the Organization,

Jesus M. F. Castillo,

Departamento de Matematicas Universidad de Extremadura castillo@unex.es

phone number: +34924289563 fax number: +34924272911