Dear Friends, The Department of Mathematical Sciences of Kent State University is planning a Conference to Celebrate the Life and Work of Vladimir Gurariy. The meeting will take place on Friday-Saturday, March 10-11, 2006.

There will be several components to this meeting which will only be able to touch on the contributions, in so many different areas, that Vladimir made. In particular, speakers at the meeting will include Per Enflo (Kent), Wolfgang Lusky (Paderborn), Mikhail Ostrovskii (New York), Peter Sarnak (Princeton), and Juan Seoane (Kent). We anticipate several other speakers, and we also invite participants to offer talks at this meeting. In addition, there will be a concert on Friday evening featuring performances of piano and vocal music composed by Vladimir.

It will be a great help to the organizers if people could let us know of their intended participation. With thanks and best wishes,

Richard Aron (aron@math.kent.edu), Joe Diestel (j_diestel@hotmail.com), Per Enflo (enflo@math.kent.edu), Victor Lomonosov (lomonoso@math.kent.edu), Andrew Tonge (tonge@math.kent.edu), and Artem Zvavitch (zvavitch@math.kent.edu).