A conference on Infinite Dimensional Analysis (IDAKent2005) will be held February 9-13, 2005, in honor of Richard Aron and Sean Dineen.

The Conference web page is http://www.math.kent.edu/idaconf2005.html.

We invite everyone, even those who cannot attend the conference, to send, as image files (preferably as JPG files), photographs of yourself with Richard and/or Sean, indicating the place and the year when they were taken. These photos will be displayed on the Conference web page.

In order to arrange the schedule of the Conference we need to know who plans to give talks. The deadline for sending us the title and abstract of your talk is Friday, January 28 (and remember that everyone, absolutely everyone, is welcome whether or not he/she plans on giving a talk!)

On the web page (LODGING), you can find information about many hotels from which to choose. To reserve hotel rooms at the IDA conference rate, please make your reservations through Misty Tackett. To do this, please (1) DOWNLOAD THE FORM FOR ROOM RESERVATIONS AS A TXT FILE, (2) FILL IN THIS FORM, and (3) E-MAIL THE FORM BACK TO Ms. Tackett at mtackett@math.kent.edu

As an alternative, you can DOWNLOAD THE FORM FOR ROOM RESERVATIONS AS A PDF FILE, FILL IN THIS FORM, AND FAX IT BACK TO Ms. Tackett (++ 1 330 672 2209). Note that Adobe Reader 6 does not allow you to save what you write on the pdf, but you can print the modified pdf file. Reservations not made through Ms. Tackett will not be available at a reduced rate. The deadline for room reservations is Friday January 21st, 2005.

Please let us know your arrival and departure times if you plan to fly to this area. We will arrange for a shuttle to take you to and from the airport when you are arriving or departing from the airports (Akron-Canton=CAK, Cleveland-Hopkins=CLE). To do this, we will need your detailed travel information. This will help us ensure that you are not missed at the airport if your flight happens to be delayed when arriving. By giving us your accurate departure information, we can help you be on time when going home as well! Please send the following information to garcia@math.kent.edu as soon as possible. On the web page you can also find in ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES the following information that you can copy and paste into your email.

Your Name: Arrival Information Airport (Cleveland or Akron): Flight Number: Arrival Date and Time: Departure Information Airport (Cleveland or Akron): Flight Number: Arrival Date and Time:

By now a lot of people have confirmed that they will attend. Among them:

Mar�a Acosta, University of Granada, Spain Raymundo Alencar, Instituto Tecnologico da Aeronautica, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil Richard Aron, Kent State University, USA Rajappa K. Asthagiri, Miami University, Middletown, USA Juan B�s, Bowling Green State University, USA Klaus Bierstedt, University of Paderborn, Germany Geraldo Botelho, Federal University of Uberl�ndia, Brazil Christopher Boyd, University College Dublin, Ireland Bernardo Cascales, University of Murcia, Spain Jes�s Castillo, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain Yun Sung Choi, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea Joe Cima, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Antonio Roberto da Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andreas Defant, University of Oldenburg, Germany Joe Diestel, Kent State University, USA Ver�nica Dimant, University of San Andr�s, Victoria, Argentina Se�n Dineen, University College Dublin, Ireland Patrick Dowling, Miami University, Oxford, USA Maite Fern�ndez-Unzueta, CIMAT, Guadalajara, Mexico Jes�s Ferrer, University of Valencia, Spain Catherine Finet, University of Mons, Belgium Pablo Galindo, University of Valencia, Spain Domingo Garc�a, University of Valencia, Spain Bogdan Grecu, Tallaght Institute of Technology, Ireland Andr� Hallack, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil Lawrence A. Harris, University of Kentucky, USA Tatsuhiro Honda, Ariake National College of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan Remo H�gli, University College Dublin, Ireland Hans Jarchow, University of Zurich, Switzerland Jes�s Jaramillo, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain Ana Kaminska, The University of Memphis, USA Padraig Kirwan, Waterford Institue of Technology, Ireland Maciej Klimek, Uppsala University, Sweden Istvan Kovacs, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA L�szl� Lempert, Purdue University, USA Chris Lennard, University of Pittsburgh, USA Fernando Le�n, University of Cadiz, Spain Mikael Lindstr�m, �bo Akademi University, Finland Jos� L. G. Llavona, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain Lilian Louren�o, University of S�o Paulo, Brazil Michael Mackey, University College Dublin, Ireland Manuel Maestre, University of Valencia, Spain Miguel Mart�n, University of Granada, Spain F�lix Mart�nez Gim�nez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Mieczyslaw Mastylo, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Vicente Montesinos Santalucia, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Luiza Moraes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lawrence Narici, Saint Johns University, New York, USA Jos� Orihuela, University of Murcia, Spain Imre Patyi, Georgia State University, USA Aleksander Pelczynski, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Daniel Pellegrino, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil David P�rez, University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid, Spain Alfredo Peris Manguillot, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Wieslaw Plesniak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Lucas Quarta, University of Mons, Belgium Mar�a Jos� Rivera, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Pilar Rueda, University of Valencia, Spain Raymond Ryan, University of Galway, Ireland Jean Schmets, University of Li�ge, Belgium Pablo Sevilla, University of Valencia, Spain Emily Sprague, University of Wisconsin, USA Kondagunta Sundaresan, Cleveland State University, USA Ciaran Taylor, Tallaght Institute of Technology, Ireland Richard Timoney, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Andrew Tonge, Kent State University, USA Milena Venkova, University College Dublin, Ireland Daniela Vieira, State University of Campinas, Brazil Ignacio Villanueva, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain Dietmar Vogt, University of Wuppertal, Germany Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Inst. for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, Ukraine Ignacio Zalduendo, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

We hope that you too will be a participant in Kent during February 9 - 13, 2005!

The organizing committee,

Yun Sung Choi, Domingo Garc�a, Manolo Maestre, Andrew Tonge, Nacho Zalduendo.