The following speakers confirmed their participation:

Serban Basarab (Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania) Dave Bayer (Barnard College, Columbia University, USA) Winfried Bruns (Universitat Osnabrueck, Germany) Antonio Campillo (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain) Florian Enescu (Georgia State University, USA) Ralf Froberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Shiro Goto (Meiji University, Japan) Mitsuyasu Hashimoto (Nagoya University, Japan) Juergen Herzog (University of Essen, Germany) Mordechai Katzman (University of Sheffield, UK) Bernd Kreussler (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland) Herbert Kurke (Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany) Olaf Arnfinn Laudal (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) Gaetana Restuccia (Universita di Messina, Italy) Tim Roemer (Universitat Osnabrueck, Germany) Peter Schenzel (Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) Gregory Smith (Queen's University at Kingston, Canada) Junzo Watanabe (Tokai University, Japan) Roger Wiegand (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) Santiago Zarzuela (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)