Below is the tentative schedule for SUMIRFAS 2004. The final schedule will be posted on the Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability page:

http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/workshops/linanalysis/

The Home Page also contains other information about the Workshop, including a list of participants and a schedule of seminars.

Housing: Contact Cheryl Williams, cherylr@math.tamu.edu, or Mary Chapman, mary@math.tamu.edu, (979/845-3621, office; 979/ 845-6028, fax) for help with housing. Please specify the type of accommodation you desire (smoking or nonsmoking), which night(s) you need the room, and roommate preference, if applicable.

We expect to be able to cover housing, possibly in a double room, for most participants, from support the National Science Foundation has provided for the Workshop. Preference will be given to participants who do not have other sources of support, such as sponsored research grants. When you ask Cheryl or Mary to book your room, please let them know if you are requesting support. Rooms in CS are tight the weekend of SUMIRFAS, so please act ASAP.

Dinner: There will be a dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 7th, at Imperial Chinese Restaurant,, 2232 S. Texas Ave. College Station. The cost for the subsidized dinner is $15 per person for faculty and $10 per person for students. Please tell Cheryl Williams or Mary Chapman, if you (and spouse or companion, if applicable) will attend. Checks should be made out to Math Dept., TAMU.

** DINNER RESERVATIONS SHOULD BE MADE BY August 2nd and PAYMENT MADE BY August 6th. **

Friday, August 6 Blocker 120

1:00-1:30 Coffee, Blocker 112 1:30-2:30 Uffe Haagerup, Random matrices and C*-algebras. 2:40-3:40 Taka Ozawa, New progress in the classification of group von Neumann algebras. 3:40-4:00 Coffee, Blocker 112 4:00-4:40 Andras Zsak, The lattice of closed ideals of a dual Banach space. 4:50-5:20 Hun Hee Lee, OH-type and OH-cotype of operator spaces and completely summing maps.

Saturday, August 7 Blocker 120

9:00-9:30 Coffee & Donuts, Blocker 112 9:30-10:30 Michael Lacey, Hankel operators and product BMO. 10:40-11:40 Assaf Naor, Markov chains in metric spaces and the Lipschitz extension problem. 11:50-12:20 12:20-1:40 Lunch 1:40-2:40 Hari Bercovici, A classical proof of a conformal mapping theorem derived from free probability theory. 2:50-3:50 Alexander Koldobsky, Intersection bodies and $L_p$-spaces. 3:50-4:20 Coffee, Blocker 112 4:30-5:00 Vlad Yaskin, Busemann-Petty problem in hyperbolic and spherical spaces. 5:10-5:40 Masayoshi Kaneda, Extreme points of the unit ball of a quasi-multiplier space 6:30- Dinner at Imperial Chinese Restaurant, 2232 S. Texas Ave.

Sunday, August 8 Blocker 120

9:30-10:00 Coffee & Donuts, Blocker 112 10:00-11:00 Stephen Semmes, Happy fractals. 11:10-12:10 Staszek Szarek, Questions in convexity and geometry of Banach spaces related to quantum information theory. 12:20-12:50 George Androulakis, Embedding L_infinity into the space of all operators on certain Banach spaces.