OPERATORS AND OPERATOR ALGEBRAS IN EDINBURGH: 8th -- 11th DECEMBER 2009 There will be an international conference on Operators and Operator Algebras in the University of Edinburgh this coming December. The Honorary Organisers are Alastair Gillespie and Allan Sinclair. The following have agreed to speak: * C. Anantharaman-Delaroche (Orleans) * W. Arendt (Ulm) * E. Berkson (Illinois Champaign-Urbana) * O. Blasco (Valencia) * G. Brown (Royal Institution of Australia) * M-J. Carro (Universitat de Barcelona) * E. Christensen (Copenhagen) * M. Cowling (Birmingham) * A. M. Davie (Edinburgh) * U. Haagerup (Odense) * M. Junge (Illinois Champaign-Urbana) * N. Kalton (Columbia, Missouri) * N. Ozawa (Tokyo and UCLA) * J. Parcet (CSIC & UA Madrid) * J. Peterson (Vanderbilt) * G. Pisier (Texas A&M and Paris VI) * W. Ricker (KU Eichstaett) * R. Smith (Texas A&M) * J-L. Torrea (UA Madrid) * S. Vaes (KU Leuven) * A. Volberg (Michigan State) * S. White (Glasgow) The conference will run from 9.00 on Tuesday 8 December 2009 until lunchtime on Friday 11 December 2009. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: Please go to http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~saw/ooae/ and bookmark it to keep up-to-date with developments. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMODATION: please go to the conference website and follow the links from there. REGISTRATION FEE: in the region of £ 35 (waived for speakers and postdgraduate students) rising to £ 50 after 1 November 2009. Full details will be announced in due course. CONFERENCE DINNER: Thursday 10th December. The cost will be in the region of £ 30. Early sign-up is recommended as spaces are on a first-come first-served basis. POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS: Limited support is available for UK-based postgraduate students. If you wish to be considered for such support, please declare this when you register. Unfortunately there will be no space in the schedule for talks other than by invited speakers, and we do not expect to be able to financially support participation (other than for speakers and postgraduate students). If you have any questions please contact Stuart White on s.white@maths.gla.ac.uk Please pass this announcement on to anyone you think might be interested. The Organising Committee (Tony Carbery, Ian Doust, Sandra Pott, Stuart White and Jim Wright)