ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <TITLE> GPOTS 2012 Schedule </TITLE> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="GPOTS 2012 Schedule"> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#0000FF" ALINK="#0000FF"> <HR> <CENTER> <H1> <FONT COLOR="003E7C">GPOTS 2012 Schedule</Font></H1> </CENTER> <HR> <BR> <IMG ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="UHPic-Library.jpg" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 ALT="Library JPG"> <BR> <BR> <TABLE> <TR VALIGN="TOP"> <TD> <FONT COLOR="037203"><B>One-Hour Plenary Speakers:</B></FONT> </TD> <TD> <a href="http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/usah/080/">Koenraad Audenaert</a> (Royal Holloway, University of London)<BR> <a href="http://www.math.purdue.edu/~mdd/">Marius Dadarlat</a> (Purdue University) <BR> <a href="http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~krdavids/">Kenneth R. Davidson</a> (University of Waterloo) <BR> <a href="http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~dhan/main.html">Deguang Han</a> (University of Central Florida) <BR> <a href="http://stationq.ucsb.edu/~hastings/">Matthew B. Hastings</a> (Microsoft Research) <BR> <a href="http://math.ucsd.edu/~helton/">J. William Helton</a> (University of California San Diego) <BR> <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/math/people/jones">Vaughan Jones</a> (Vanderbilt University) <BR> <a href="http://www.math.unm.edu/~loring/">Terry Loring</a> (University of New Mexico) <BR> <a href="http://www.math.ufl.edu/~sam/">Scott McCullough</a> (University of Florida) <BR> <a href="http://www.math.ku.dk/~rordam/">Mikael R&oslash;rdam</a> (University of Copenhagen) <BR> <a href="https://perswww.kuleuven.be/%7Eu0018768/">Stefaan Vaes</a> (K.U. Leuven) <BR> <a href="http://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/dan-virgil-voiculescu">Dan-Virgil Voiculescu</a> (University of California, Berkeley) <BR> <a href="http://www.math.gatech.edu/users/bwick6">Brett Wick</a> (Georgia Tech) <BR> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <TABLE> <TR VALIGN="TOP"> <TD> <FONT COLOR="037203"><B>Half-Hour Plenary Speakers:</B></FONT> </TD> <TD> <a href="http://www.math.drexel.edu/~dmitryk/">Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi</a> (Drexel University) <BR> <a href="http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~katsura/">Takeshi Katsura</a> (Keio University) <BR> <a href="http://math.mit.edu/~eep/">Emily Peters</a> (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) <BR> <a href="http://www.case.edu/artsci/math/werner/">Elisabeth Werner</a> (Case Western Reserve University) <BR> </TR> </TABLE> <BR> <BR> <BR> There will be a reception held on the night of arrival, Tuesday, May 29 in the <a href="http://www.housing.uh.edu/housing/cougar-village">Cougar Village Dorms</a>. Talks will start the morning of Wednesday, May 30 and end at Noon on Sunday, June 3. There will be a free afternoon and a banquet one evening. <BR> <BR> The Banquet will be held at the <a href="http://www.saintarnold.com/">St. Arnold's Brewery</a>. It will include a tour of the St. Arnold's Brewery followed by a catered meal. <BR> <BR> There will be an excursion the Friday afternoon of the conference. We will provide buses to Herman Park, where participants can choose from a variety of activities including walking in the park, visiting the museums in the Houston Museum District, or touring the zoo. <BR> <H3> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="excursion.html">Details for the Friday Excursion</a></H3> <BR> <BR> In addition to the hour and half-hour plenary speakers, there will be 20-minute contributed talks. A complete schedule of the talks and all other events will be posted here once it is available. <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <A HREF="GPOTS2012.html"> <IMG SRC="backarrow.gif" WIDTH=24 HEIGHT=24 ALT="Back Arrow"> <Big>Back</Big></A> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </BODY>