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From alspach Thu Jan  2 10:57:52 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by S. Saccone
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This is the abstract of the paper "The Pelczynski property for tight
subspaces" by S. Saccone.  The paper is typed in Plain TeX. The paper may
be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We show that if X is a tight subspace of C(K) then X has the
Pelczynski property and X^* is weakly sequentially complete. We apply
this result to the space U of uniformly convergent Taylor series on the
unit circle and using a minimal amount of Fourier theory prove a
theorem of Bourgain, namely that U has the Pelczynski property and U^*
is weakly sequentially complete. Using separate methods, we prove U and
U^* have the Dunford-Pettis property. Some results concerning pointwise
bounded approximation are proved for tight uniform algebras. We use
tightness and the Pelczynski property sto make a remark about inner
functions on strictly pseudoconvex domains in C^n.

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Subject: Spring School at Paseky
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:25:01 -0600
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          Spring School 97
 
 Boundaries and Convexity in Banach Spaces
         
         First Announcement

Dear Colleague,

Following a longstanding tradition, the Faculty
of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, will 
organize a Spring School on Banach Spaces Theory.
The School will be held at Paseky, in a chalet 
in the Krkonose Mountains, April 20 -- 26, 1997. 
The program will consist of series of lectures on:



Convergence Problems for Equicontinuous Sequences
of Linear Operators on Banach Spaces

delivered by:

 Francesco Altomare
 University of Bari




Abstract Boundaries and Korovkin Theory
for Function Spaces

delivered by:
 Heinz Bauer
 University of Erlangen -- Nrnberg



Education of Neurons
and Education in Mathematics and Science

delivered by:
 Gustave Choquet
 University of Paris VI




Convergence, Minimax and Monotonicity

delivered by:
 Stephen Simons
 University of Santa Barbara, California




Boundaries and Smoothness in Banach Spaces

delivered by:
 Vaclav Zizler
 University of Alberta, Edmonton & Charles University, Prague


Short abstracts of these series of lectures are available on
http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/katedry/kma/ss/ss.htm



The purpose of this Meeting is to bring together adepts who
share a common interest in the field.
There will be opportunities for short communications and
informal discussions. Graduate students and others
beginning their mathematical career are encouraged to
participate.



     The conference fee will be 280,- US dollars.
A reduced rate of 250,- US dollars will be offered, provided
a letter guaranteeing participation reaches the organizers
before February 15, 1997. The conference fee includes all local
expenses (room and board) and transportation between Prague and Paseky.
The fee is the same for accompanying persons.  

    The organizers may provide financial support
to a limited number of students. Applications must be
sent before February 15, 1997.

    Payment of the fee should be made in cash at the registration 
desk in Paseky, or it may be remitted by a bank  transfer to

Komer\v cn\'\i  banka,  Praha 1,  V\'aclavsk\'e n\'am. 42,
account  No. 38330--021/0100,  v.s. 810

(a copy  of the  transfer should be presented 
at the registration desk at Paseky).
Unfortunately, cheques cannot be used and will not be accepted.
 


In case of any difficulty you should contact the organizers.



The village of Paseky lies in the slopes of
the Krkonose Mountains, in North Bohemia. Accommodation
consists of rooms for two or three people. There are excellent
facilities and conditions for sporting activities:
hiking trips, soccer, mini-golf and sauna.
A special bus from Prague to Paseky will leave at 4 p.m. on
April 20, 1997. The bus from Paseky will arrive
in Prague on April 26, at 11.30 a.m.



     In case of interest please fill out the enclosed preliminary 
registration form and return it before February 15, 1997.
A final announcement with further details will be mailed in due time.

Due to the limited capacity of accommodation facilities the
organizers may be forced to decline registration.

We look forward to meeting you in the Czech Republic.

Jaroslav Lukes, Jiri Kottas


Mailing address:
Katedra matematick\'e anal\'yzy 
Matematicko-fyzik\'aln\'\i fakulta UK 
Sokolovsk\'a 83, 186 00 Praha 8
Czech Republic

Phone/Fax: 42 -- 2  -- 232 3390
E-mail: paseky at karlin.mff.cuni.cz
WWW: http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/katedry/kma/ss/ss.htm


Kindly inform colleagues interested in this field !



Preliminary registration form of Spring School:
Functional Analysis, Paseky 1997

Name:

Address:

E-mail:

Fax:

Phone:

I plan on attending the Spring School       Yes   No


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Subject: Conference on Logic and Analysis
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:13:41 -0600
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25--29 August 1997 {\bf Analysis and Logic}
\par {\bf Organizers:} Teams of Analysis and of
Mathematical Logic of the University of 
Mons-Hainaut and 
team of Analysis of the University of Paris~6.
\par {\bf Location:} University of Mons-Hainaut 
(Belgium).
\par {\bf Subject:} Geometry of Banach Spaces, 
Non-Stan\-dard Analysis,
Ramsey Theory, Descriptive Set Theory and their 
interactions.
\par  {\bf Program:} The program will include 
three mini-courses and ten plenary lectures.
\par  {\bf Mini-Courses}: C.W.~Henson (Urbana): 
Nonstandard Analysis and
Ultraproducts in Banach Spaces and Functional 
Analysis, 
A.~Kechris (Caltech): On the Interactions between
Descriptive Set Theory and Analysis,
T.~Odell (Austin): State of the Art in
Banach Spaces.
\par  {\bf Organizing Committee:} R.~Deville 
(Bordeaux), C.~Finet (Mons),
J.P.~Gossez (Bruxelles), C.W.~Henson (Urbana), 
C.~Impens (Gent), 
J.~Jayne (London), A.~Louveau (Paris~6), 
C.~Michaux (Mons),
A.~P\'etry (Li\`ege), G.~Pisier (Paris~6, Texas 
A~\& ~M), 
J.~Schmets (Li\`ege), J.~Van Casteren (Antwerpen).
\par  {\bf Scientific Committee:} M.~Boffa (Mons), 
G.~Gode\-froy 
(Paris~6, Columbia Missouri), T.~Gowers 
(Cambridge),
B.S.~Kashin (Mos\-cow), A.~Macintyre (Oxford), 
A.~Pelczynski (Warsaw),
F.~Point (Mons), A.A.~Razbo\-rov (Mos\-cow), 
S.~Troyanski (Sofia),
L.~Tza\-fri\-ri (J\'erusalem).
\par  {\bf Registration Fee:} Bef 5.000 (\$160)
\par  {\bf Accomodation:} arranged in
the university residence (single and double rooms 
with bathroom)
for around Bef 6.000 (\$190) including breakfast 
and lunch.
\par  {\bf Contributed Papers:} Please contact the 
organizers.
\par  {\bf Informations:} Catherine Finet and 
Christian Michaux, UMH, Institut
de Ma\-th\'e\-ma\-ti\-que et 
d'In\-for\-ma\-ti\-que, 15 Avenue Maistriau, 
B-7000 
Mons
(Belgique), e-mail~: \\{\tt 
analog at sun1.umh.ac.be}, 
 T\'el.~{\tt 32-65-373507}, {\tt 32-65-354706}, 
Fax~{\tt 32-65-373318/3054},
Website~: {\tt 
http://sun1.umh.ac.be/$\sim$boffa/logicumh.htm}

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From alspach Tue Jan 28 13:07:53 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Stanislaw J. Szarek
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This is the abstract of the paper "Metric entropy of homogeneous spaces
and Finsler geometry of classical Lie groups" by Stanislaw J. Szarek.
The paper is typed in LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:For a (compact) subset $K$ of a metric space and $\varepsilon
 > 0$, the {\em covering number} $N(K , \varepsilon )$ is defined as
the smallest number of balls of radius $\varepsilon$ whose union covers
$K$.  Knowledge of the {\em metric entropy}, i.e., the asymptotic
behaviour of covering numbers for (families of) metric spaces is
important in many areas of mathematics (geometry, functional analysis,
probability, coding theory, to name a few).  In this paper we give
asymptotically correct estimates for covering numbers for a large class
of homogeneous spaces of unitary (or orthogonal) groups with respect to
some natural metrics, most notably the one induced by the operator
norm.  This generalizes earlier author's results concerning covering
numbers of Grassmann manifolds; the generalization is motivated by
applications to noncommutative probability and operator algebras. In
the process we give a characterization of geodesics in $U(n)$ (or
$SO(m)$) for a class of non-Riemannian metric structures.

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From alspach Tue Jan 28 15:42:06 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N. J. Laustsen
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This is the abstract of the paper "K-theory for algebras of operators
on Banach spaces" by N. J. Laustsen.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2e.
The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
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 Abstract:It is proved that, for each pair (m,n) of non-negative
integers, there is a Banach space X for which the group K_0(B(X)) is
isomorphic to m copies of the integers and the group K_1(B(X)) is
isomorphic to n copies of the integers. Along the way we compute the
K-groups of all closed ideals of operators contained in the ideal of
strictly singular operators, and we derive some results about the
existence of splittings of certain short exact sequences.

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From alspach Wed Feb  5 17:01:30 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by J. Lindenstrauss
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This is the abstract of the paper "Uniform embeddings, homeomorphisms
and quotient maps between Banach spaces (A short survey)" by J.
Lindenstrauss.  The paper is typed in Plain. The paper may be
downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


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 Abstract:This is a survey of the area mentioned in the title.

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From alspach Fri Feb  7 13:19:50 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Alexander Koldobsky
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This is the abstract of the paper "Second derivative test for isometric
embeddings in $L_p$" by Alexander Koldobsky.  The paper is typed in
AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:An old problem of P. Levy is to characterize those Banach
spaces which embed isometrically in $L_p.$ We show a new criterion in
terms of the second derivative of the norm. As an application, we show
that if $M$ is a twice differentiable Orlicz function with
$M'(0)=M''(0)=0$ then the $n$-dimensional Orlicz space $\ell_M^n,\ n\ge
3,$ does not embed isometrically in $L_p$ with $0<p\le 2.$ These
results generalize and clear up the recent solution to the 1938
Schoenberg's problem on positive definite functions.

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From alspach Mon Feb 17 10:17:58 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by M. Cepedello Boiso
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This is the abstract of the paper "Approximation of Lipschitz functions
by $\Delta$-convex functions in Banach spaces" by M. Cepedello Boiso.
The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:In this paper we give some results about the approximation of
a Lipschitz function on a Banach space by means of $\Delta$-convex
functions. In particular, we prove  that the density of $\Delta$-convex
functions in the set of Lipschitz functions for the topology of uniform
convergence on bounded sets characterizes the superreflexivity of the
Banach space. We also show that Lipschitz functions on superreflexive
Banach spaces are uniform limits on the whole space of $\Delta$-convex
functions.

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From alspach Tue Feb 18 13:33:27 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Kamil John and Dirk Werner
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This is the abstract of the paper "M-ideals of compact operators into
$\ell_p$" by Kamil John and Dirk Werner.  The paper is typed in
LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp
to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We show for $2\le p<\infty$ and subspaces $X$ of quotients of
  $L_{p}$ with a $1$-unconditional finite-dimensional Schauder
  decomposition that $K(X,\ell_{p})$ is an $M$-ideal in
  $L(X,\ell_{p})$.

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From alspach Mon Feb 24 16:10:51 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Beata Randrianantoanina
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This is the abstract of the paper "One-complemented subspaces of real
sequence spaces" by Beata Randrianantoanina.  The paper is typed in
LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:Characterizations are given for  1-complemented hyperplanes
of strictly monotone real Lorentz spaces and 1-complemented finite
codimensional subspaces (which contain at least one basis element) of
real Orlicz spaces equipped with either Luxemburg or Orlicz norm.

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From alspach Tue Feb 25 15:24:50 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N. Randrianantoanina
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This is the abstract of the paper "Hilbert transform associated with
finite maximal subdiagonal algebras" by N. Randrianantoanina.  The
paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:Let $M$ be a von Neumann algebra with a faithful normal
finite trace $t$, and $H^\infty$ be a finite, maximal, subdiagonal of
$M$. Fundamental theorems on conjugate functions for weak* Dirichlet
algebras are shown to be a bounded linear map from $L^p(M,t)$ into
$L^p(M,t)$ for $1<p<\infty$, and to be a continuous linear map from
$L^1(M,t)$ into $L^{1,\infty}(M,t)$. We also obtain that if a positive
operator $a$ is such that $a\log^{+}a \in L^1(M,t)$, then its conjugate
belongs to $L^1(M,t)$.

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From alspach Wed Feb 26 13:40:08 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N. Randrianantoanina
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This is the abstract of the paper "Factorization of operators on
$C^*$-algebras" by N. Randrianantoanina.  The paper is typed in
LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:Let $A$ be a $C^*$-algebra. It is shown that every absolutely
summing operator from $A$ into $\ell_2$  factors through a Hilbert
space operator that belongs to the 4-Schatten- von Neumann class. We
also provide finite dimensinal examples that show that one can not
improve the 4-Schatten-von Neumann class to $p$-Schatten von Neumann
class for any $p<4$.  As application, we prove that there exists a
modulus of capacity $\epsilon \to N(\epsilon)$ so that if $A$ is a
$C^*$-algebra and $T \in \Pi_1(A,\ell_2)$ with $\pi_1(T)\leq 1$, then
for every $\epsilon >0$, the $\epsilon$-capacity of the image of the
unit ball of $A$ under $T$ does not exceed $N(\epsilon)$. This aswers
positively a question raised by Pe\l czynski.

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From alspach Wed Feb 26 13:51:15 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Robert Judd
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This is the abstract of the paper "A dichotomy on Schreier sets" by
Robert Judd.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be
downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We show that the Schreier sets $\mathcal{S}_{\alpha}\
(\alpha<\omega_1)$ satisfy the following dichotomy property.  For every
hereditary collection $\cf$ of finite subsets of $\N$, either there
exists infinite $M=(m_i)_1^{\infty}\subseteq\N$ such that
$\cs_{\alpha}(M)=\{\{m_i:i\in E\}:E\in\cs_{\alpha}\}\subseteq\cf$, or
there exist infinite $M=(m_i)_1^{\infty},N\subseteq\N$ such that
$\cf[N](M)=\{\{m_i:i\in F\}:F\in\cf \mbox{ and } F\subset
N\}\subseteq\cs_{\alpha}$.

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From alspach Wed Feb 26 13:59:15 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N. Randrianantoanina, and E. Saab
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This is the abstract of the paper "The near Radon-Nikodym property in
Lebesgue-Bochner function spaces" by N. Randrianantoanina and E.
Saab.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from
the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach nrandriesaabnrnp.latex


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 Abstract:Let $X$ be a Banach space $E$ a K\"othe function space that
does not contain $c_0$. It is shown that the vector valued function
space $E(X)$ has the Near Radon Nikodym property if and only if $X$
does.

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To: banach at littlewood.math.okstate.edu
Subject: New Name for U. Missouri math. home page
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:14:33 -0600
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The new homepage of the department of mathematics at the
University of Missouri-Columbia is
www.math.missouri.edu

Elias Saab


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Subject: Position in Galway, Ireland.
To: BANACH at littlewood.math.okstate.edu
Reply-to: "RAY RYAN, GALWAY." <Ray.Ryan at ucg.ie>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 08:50:19 -0600
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			UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GALWAY.
		   JUNIOR LECTURESHIP in MATHEMATICS.

Applications are invited for a full-time permanent position as Junior 
Lecturer  in the Mathematics Department of  University College Galway.
 
The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 11 April. 

Full information may be obtained from:
The Registrar,
University College,
Galway.
Phone +353 91 524411 Ext 2121 or direct line +353 91 750369.
Fax +353 750557
e-mail Registrar at mis.ucg.ie


For informal discussion contact Professor T. Hurley, Phone +353 91 750442; 
FAX +353 91 750542; 
e-mail Ted.Hurley at UCG.IE; 
WWW:  http://www.tedser.UCG.IE


From alspach Fri Apr  4 09:50:56 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by G. Pisier and Q. Xu
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This is the abstract of the paper "Non-commutative martingale
inequalities" by G. Pisier and Q. Xu.  The paper is typed in Plain TeX. The
paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We prove the analogue of the classical Burkholder-Gundy
inequalites for non-commutative  martingales.   As applications we give
a characterization for an Ito-Clifford integral to be an
$L^p$-martingale via its integrand, and then extend the Ito-Clifford
integral theory in $L^2$, developed by Barnett, Streater and Wilde, to
$L^p$ for all $1<p<\infty$. We include an appendix on the
non-commutative analogue of the classical Fefferman duality between
$H^1$ and $BMO$.

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From alspach Fri Apr  4 15:35:29 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Timur Oikhberg and Gilles Pisier
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This is the abstract of the paper "The ``maximal" tensor product of
operator spaces" by Timur Oikhberg and Gilles Pisier.  The paper is
typed in Plain_TeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board
by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:In analogy with the  maximal  tensor product of
$C^*$-algebras, we define the ``maximal" tensor product $E_1\otimes_\mu
E_2$ of two operator spaces $E_1$ and $E_2$ and we show that it can be
identified completely isometrically with the sum of the two Haagerup
tensor products: \ $E_1\otimes_h E_2 + E_2\otimes_h E_1$. Let $E$ be an
$n$-dimensional operator space. As an application, we show that the
equality $E^* \otimes_\mu E=E^* \otimes_{\rm min} E$ holds
isometrically iff $E = R_n$ or $E=C_n$ (the row or column
$n$-dimensional Hilbert spaces). Moreover, we show that if an operator
space $E$ is such that, for any operator space $F$, we have
$F\otimes_{\min} E=F\otimes_{\mu} E$ isomorphically, then $E$ is
completely isomorphic to either a row or a column  Hilbert  space.

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From alspach Wed Apr  9 10:12:56 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Franck Barthe
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This is the abstract of the paper "Optimal Young's inequality and its
converse:a simple proof" by Franck Barthe.  The paper is typed in
Plain_TeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp
to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We give a new proof of the sharp form of Young's inequality
for convolutions, first proved by Beckner [Be] and Brascamp-Lieb [BL].
The latter also proved a sharp reverse inequality in the case of
exponents less than $1$. Our proof is simpler and gives Young's
inequality and its converse altogether.

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From alspach Wed Apr  9 10:27:45 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by E. Semenov and S. Montgomery-Smith
Content-Length: 779

This is the abstract of the paper "Random rearrangements and operators"
by E. Semenov and S. Montgomery-Smith.  The paper is typed in
Plain_TeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp
to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:Consider an n by n matrix x_ij, and consider the quantity
	  || x_{i,pi(i)} ||_X where X is a symmetric sequence space as
	  a random variable where the permutation pi is chosen
	  randomly.  This was considered by Kwapien and Schutt, and we
	  extend their results to rearrangement invariant spaces.

	  We also consider the property of D and D^* convexity for
	  rearrangement invariant spaces.

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From alspach Wed Apr  9 14:46:31 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by S. Montgomery-Smith
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This is the abstract of the paper "Time decay for the bounded mean
oscillation of  solutions of the Schr\"odinger and wave equations" by
S. Montgomery-Smith.  The paper is typed in Plain_TeX. The paper may be
downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


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 Abstract:Let $u(x,t)$ be the solution of the Schr\"odinger or wave
 equation with $L_2$ initial data.  We provide counterexamples to
 plausible conjectures involving the decay in $t$ of the $\BMO$ norm of
 $u(t,\cdot)$.  The proofs make use of random methods, in particular,
 Brownian motion.

 Despite the applied sounding title, this really is a paper in harmonic
 analysis.

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From alspach Wed Apr  9 14:54:30 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by L. Grafakos, S. Montgomery-Smith, and O. Motrunich
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This is the abstract of the paper "A sharp estimate for the
Hardy-Littlewood maximal function" by L. Grafakos, S. Montgomery-Smith,
and O. Motrunich.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be
downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


	 get banach grafakosmontsmithmotrunichhardy.tex


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 Abstract:The best constant in the usual $L^p$ norm inequality for the
 Hardy-Littlewood maximal function on $\Bbb R^1$ is obtained for the
 class of all ``bell-shaped'' functions. A positive function on the
 line is called ``bell-shaped'' if it is smooth and has only one hump.
 The techniques we use include convexity and an adaptation of the
 standard Euler-Langrange variational method.

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Contributed by Jonathan Partington <j.r.partington at leeds.ac.uk>

POSTDOCTORAL  RESEARCH  ASSISTANTSHIP  

A vacancy has arisen for a 3-year postdoctoral research assistant
at the University of Leeds, Department of Pure Mathematics, to work
with Dr J.R. Partington on an EPSRC-funded project entitled
"Applications of operator theory to the modelling of linear systems".
A starting date around October 1st 1997 is intended.

Enquiries are welcome from people with experience in the areas of
Functional Analysis, Operator Theory, Hardy Spaces or Harmonic
Analysis. They should be directed to Dr Partington at
J.R.Partington at leeds.ac.uk, from whom further information is
available. The closing date for applications is May 16th 1997.


- -- 
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| Dr Jonathan R. Partington, Tel: UK: (0113) 233 5123. Int: +44 113 233 5123.|
| School of Mathematics,     Fax: UK: (0113) 233 5145. Int: +44 113 233 5145.|
| University of Leeds,                                                       |
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\magnification=\magstep1
\input amstex\documentstyle{amsppt}
\parindent=0pt

{\bf Change of address of V\'aclav Zizler:}
\medskip
 I am taking the liberty to inform the Banach space community that 
 I am returning home to Prague for good and my address is
\medskip
V\'aclav Zizler

Department of Mathematical Analysis

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

Charles University, Prague

Sokolovsk\'a 83, 18600, Prague 8

Czech Republic

e-mail: vzizler\ at karlin.mff.cuni.cz

\rightline{Sincerely, V\'aclav Zizler}


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\magnification=1200
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\centerline{\bf G\^ateaux Differentiability of Convex Functions and Topology --}
\centerline{\bf Weak Asplund Spaces}
\bigskip
\centerline{by}
\bigskip
\centerline{\it Mari\'an Fabian}
\bigskip
This book deals with the G\^ateaux differentiability of convex functions 
and its relationship to the 
structure of Banach spaces. In particular, Banach spaces,
for which every convex continuous function 
is G\^ateaux differentiable at the points of
a $G_{\delta}$ dense subset -- called weak Asplund spaces --
are investigated here. In the first chapter   
examples
of such spaces -- Asplund (generated) 
spaces and weakly compactly generated spaces,
and their topological counterparts -- Radon-Nikod\'ym and Eberlein
compacta are studied. In Chapter two we discuss 
properties of the weak Asplund spaces. 
The largest subclass of the weak Asplund 
spaces, and their topological counterpart
- -- Stegall's classes are -- 
studied in the next chapter.

In Chapter 4 we will show that weakly $\cal K$-analytic and G\^ateaux
smooth spaces
are weak Asplund spaces.
The next chapter is devoted to the study 
of fragmentable topological spaces and its relationship to
weak Asplundness and Stegall's class. 

Chapter 6 deals with the so called projectional resolutions of the identity.
This powerful tool is then used in the last two chapters. 

In chapter 7 a theory of Va\v s\'ak (i.e. weakly countably determined) spaces
is built together with its topological counterpart -- Gu'lko
compacta.
In the last chapter a relationship between
Va\v s\'ak, weakly Lindel\"of determined, 
weakly compactly generated and Asplund spaces is studied.
A topological counterpart is also discussed there, namely a connection between
Talagrand, Gul'ko, Corson,
Radon-Nikod\'ym, and Eberlein compacta. 

The book contains several counterexamples, due to
Talagrand, Rezni\v cenko, Argyros, etc placing the weak Asplund spaces
among other important classes of nonseparable Banach spaces. 

Each chapter is completed by an exhaustive "Notes and remarks" section.
The book ends with the discussion on the main open problems  
in the
theory of the weak Asplund spaces. A list of references contains about 150
papers and books.

The text is addressed to all graduate students and
researchers working in Banach spaces and
topology who want to study 
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\bye 


From alspach Tue Apr 22 12:25:42 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by S. A. Argyros, I. Deliyanni, D. Kutzarova, and A. Manoussakis
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This is the abstract of the paper "Modified mixed Tsirelson spaces" by
S. A. Argyros, I. Deliyanni, D. Kutzarova, and A. Manoussakis.  The
paper is typed in LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:We study the modified and boundedly modified mixed Tsirelson
spaces $T_M[({\cal F}_{k_n},\theta_n)_{n=1}^{\infty }]$ and
$T_{M(s)}[({\cal F}_{k_n},\theta_n)_{n=1}^{\infty }]$ respectively,
defined by a subsequence $({\cal F}_{k_n})$ of the sequence of Schreier
families $({\cal F}_n)$. These are reflexive asymptotic $\ell_1$ spaces
with an unconditio- nal basis $(e_i)_i$ having the property that every
sequence $\{ x_i\}_{i=1}^n$ of normalized disjointly supported vectors
contained in $\langle e_i\rangle_{i=n}^{\infty }$ is equivalent to the
basis of $\ell_1^n$. We show that if $\lim\theta_n^{1/n}=1$ then the
space $T[({\cal F}_n,\theta_n) _{n=1}^{\infty }]$ and its modified
variations are totally incomparable by proving that $c_0$ is finitely
disjointly representable in every block subspace of $T[({\cal F}_n,
\theta_n)_{n=1}^{\infty }]$. Next, we present an example of a boundedly
modified mixed Tsirelson space $X_{M(1),u}$ which is arbitrarily
distortable. Finally, we construct a variation of the space
$X_{M(1),u}$ which is hereditarily indecomposable.

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From alspach Fri Apr 25 10:12:14 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Vania Mascioni and Lajos Molnar
Content-Length: 762

This is the abstract of the paper "Linear maps on factors which
preserve the extreme points of the unit ball" by Vania Mascioni and
Lajos Molnar.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be
downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


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 Abstract:The aim of this paper is to characterize those linear maps
from a von Neumann factor $\A$ into itself which preserve the extreme
points of the unit ball of $\A$.  For example, we show that if $\A$ is
infinite, then every such linear preserver can be written as a fixed
unitary operator times either a unital *-homomorphism or a unital
*-antihomomorphism.

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From alspach Fri Jun  6 13:31:52 1997
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Subject: Abstract of a paper by Franck Barthe
Content-Length: 573

This is the abstract of the paper "On a reverse form of the
Brascamp-Lieb inequality" by Franck Barthe.  The paper is typed in
LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We prove  a reverse form of the multidimensional
Brascamp-Lieb inequality. Our method also gives a new way to derive the
Brascamp-Lieb inequality and is rather convenient for the study of
equality cases.

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From alspach Fri Jun  6 13:43:53 1997
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Subject: Abstract of a paper by Gilles Pisier
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This is the abstract of the paper "The similarity degree of an operator
algebra" by Gilles Pisier.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may
be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


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 Abstract:Let $A$ be a unital operator algebra.  Let us assume that
every {\it bounded\/} unital homomorphism $u\colon \ A\to B(H)$ is
similar to a {\it contractive\/} one.
 Let $\text{\rm Sim}(u) = \inf\{\|S\|\, \|S^{-1}\|\}$ where the infimum
runs over all invertible operators $S\colon \ H\to H$ such that the
``conjugate'' homomorphism $a\to S^{-1}u(a)S$ is contractive. Now for
all $c>1$, let $\Phi(c) = \sup\text{\rm Sim}(u)$ where the supremum
runs over all unital homomorphism $u\colon\ A\to B(H)$ with $\|u\|\le
c$.
  Then,  there is $\alpha\ge 0$ such that for some constant $K$ we
have:  $$\Phi(c) \le Kc^\alpha.\leqno (*)\qquad \forall c>1$$ Moreover,
the smallest $\alpha$ for which this holds is an integer, denoted by
$d(A)$ (called the similarity degree of $A$) and $(*)$ still holds for
some $K$ when $\alpha=d(A)$.  Among the applications of these
results,   we give new characterizations of proper uniform algebras on
one hand, and of nuclear $C^*$-algebras on the other. Moreover, we
obtain a characterization of amenable groups  which answers (at least
partially) a question on group representations going back to a 1950
paper of Dixmier.

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From alspach Fri Jun  6 14:11:17 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by L. Molnar
Content-Length: 950

This is the abstract of the paper "Reflexivity of the automorphism and
isometry groups of some standard operator algebras" by L. Molnar.  The
paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin
board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:In this paper we give an example of a proper standard
 C*-algebra (a proper C*-subalgebra of B(H) containing C(H)) whose
automorphism and isometry groups are topologically reflexive.
Furthermore, we prove that in the case of extensions of C(H) by
separable commutative C*-algebras, these groups are algebraically
reflexive. Concerning the most well-known extensions of C(H) by the
algebra of all continuous complex valued functions on the perimeter of
the unit disc, we show that the automorphism and isometry groups are
topologically nonreflexive.

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From alspach Fri Jun  6 14:20:19 1997
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Subject: Abstract of a paper by H. Pfitzner and G. Schluechtermann
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This is the abstract of the paper "Factorization of completely bounded
weakly compact operators" by H. Pfitzner and G. Schluechtermann.  The
paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:We prove that in the setting of operator spaces the result of
 Davis, Figiel, Johnson and Pelczynski on factoring weakly compact
operators holds accordingly.  Though not related directly to the main
theorem we add a remark on the description of weakly compact subsets in
the dual of noncommutative vector valued ${\rm L}_1$.

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From alspach Thu Jun 12 11:46:35 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by L. Molnar
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This is the abstract of the paper "The automorphism and isometry groups
of $l_\infty(N, B(H))$ are topologically reflexive" by L. Molnar.  The
paper is typed in AMSLaTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach molnarreflinfty.latex


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 Abstract:The aim of this note is to show that the automorphism and
isometry groups of the C*-algebra $\l_\infty(N,B(H))$ of all bounded
sequences in $B(H)$ are topologically reflexive which, as one of our
former results shows, is not the case with the "scalar algebra"
$l_\infty$.

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From alspach Thu Jun 12 11:53:39 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by M. Cepedello Boiso
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This is the abstract of the paper "On regularization in superreflexive
Banach spaces by infimal convolution formulas" by M. Cepedello Boiso.
The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach cepedboisoregsuprefcnvltn.tex


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 Abstract:We present here a new method for approximating functions
defined on superreflexive Banach spaces by differentiable functions
with $\alpha$-H\"older derivatives (for some $0<\alpha\leq 1$).  The
smooth approximation is given by means of an explicit formula enjoying
good properties from the minimization point of view.  For instance, for
any function $f$ which is bounded below and uniformly continuous on
bounded sets this formula gives a sequence of $\Delta$-convex
${\Cal{C}}^{1,\alpha}$ functions converging uniformly on bounded sets
to $f$ and preserving the infimum and the set of minimizers of $f$.
The techniques we develop are based on the use of {\sl extended
inf-convolution} formulas and convexity properties such as the
preservation of smoothness for the convex envelope of certain
differentiable functions.

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From alspach Thu Jun 12 11:57:06 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Y. Gordon, M. Junge and N. J. Nielsen
Content-Length: 670

This is the abstract of the paper "The relations between volume ratios
and new concepts of gl constants" by Y. Gordon, M. Junge and N. J.
Nielsen.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded
from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting
the command


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 Abstract:In this paper we investigate a property named GL(p,q) which
is closely related to the Gordon-Lewis property. Our results on GL(p,q)
are then used to estimate volume ratios relative to $\ell_p$, $1<p
\le\infty$, of unconditional direct sums of Banach spaces.

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From alspach Tue Jul  1 10:27:11 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by E. Werner
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This is the abstract of the paper "A general geometric construction for
affine surface area" by E. Werner.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2.09.
The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach ewernergeoconafnsrf.latex


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 Abstract:Let $K$ be a convex body in ${\bf R}^n$ and $B$ be the
 Euclidean unit ball in ${\bf R}^n$. We show that
$$\mbox{lim}_{t\rightarrow 0} \frac{|K| -|K_t|}{|B| - |B_t|}=
\frac{as(K)}{as(B)},$$ where $as(K)$ respectively $as(B)$ is the affine
surface area of $K$ respectively $B$ and $\{K_t\}_{t\geq 0}$,
$\{B_t\}_{t\geq 0}$ are general families of convex bodies constructed
from $K$, $B$ satifying certain conditions. As a corollary we get
results obtained in [M-W], [Schm],[S-W] and[W].

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From alspach Wed Jul  9 14:36:33 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by M. Gyory and L. Molnar
Content-Length: 859

This is the abstract of the paper "Diameter preserving linear
bijections of $C(X)$" by M. Gyory and L. Molnar.  The paper is typed in
AMSLaTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach gyormoldiampres.latex


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 Abstract:The aim of this paper is to solve a linear preserver problem
on the function algebra $C(X)$. We show that in case $X$ is a first
countable compact Hausdorff space, every linear bijection $\phi:C(X)\to
C(X)$ having the property that $diam(\phi(f)(X))=diam(f(X))$ $(f\in
C(X))$ is of the form \[ \phi(f)=\tau \cdot f\circ \varphi +t(f)1
\qquad (f\in C(X)) \] where $\tau$ is a complex number of modulus 1,
$\varphi:X\to X$ is a homeomorphism and $t$ is a linear functional on
$C(X)$.

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From alspach Mon Jul 14 11:12:53 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Mathieu Meyer and Elisabeth Werner
Content-Length: 688

This is the abstract of the paper "The Santalo-regions of a convex
body" by Mathieu Meyer and Elisabeth Werner.  The paper is typed in
LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp
to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach meyerwernersanta.latex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:Motivated by the Blaschke-Santal${\mbox{\'o}}$ inequality, we
define for a convex body K in ${\bf R}^n$ and for $t \in {\bf R}$ the
Santal${\mbox{\'o}}$-regions S(K,t) of K. We investigate properties of
these sets and  relate them to a concept of Affine Differential
Geometry, the affine surface area of K.

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To: banach at littlewood.math.okstate.edu
Subject: Abstract of a paper by G. Androulakis, C. D. Cazacu, and N. J. Kalton
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 11:19:04 CDT
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This is the abstract of the paper "Twisted sums, Fenchel-Orlicz spaces
and property (M)" by G. Androulakis, C. D. Cazacu, and N. J. Kalton.
The paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:We study certain twisted sums of Orlicz spaces with
non-trivial type which can be viewed as Fenchel-Orlicz spaces on ${\rm
{\bf R}}^2$. We then show that a large class of Fenchel-Orlicz spaces
on ${\rm {\bf R}}^n$ can be renormed to have property (M). In
particular this gives a new construction of the twisted Hilbert space
$Z_2$ and shows it has property (M), after an appropriate renorming.

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Reply-to: Bill Johnson <Bill.Johnson at math.tamu.edu>
To: banach at littlewood.math.okstate.edu
Subject: PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS'97
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:27:35 -0500
From: Alspach Dale <alspach at littlewood.math.okstate.edu>
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		PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS'97

	   The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar
	 will meet  August 8 - 10 at Texas A&M in College Station.

SCHEDULE (tentative):  The first talk will be in the early afternoon on 
Friday in Blocker 457.  The talks on Saturday and Sunday will be in 
Blocker 120.  SUMIRFAS will end in the early afternoon on Sunday. 
The schedule will be posted and updated periodically on the Home 
Page of the Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability, 
http://www.math.tamu.edu/programs/workshops/linanalysis/ 
The Home Page also contains other information about the Workshop, 
including a list of participants and a schedule of seminars.  

HOUSING:  Contact Judy Gloyna, (judyg at math.tamu.edu, (409) 845-
5-4412, (409) 845-6028  FaX) for help with housing.  Please tell Judy 
the type of accommodation you desire (smoking or nonsmoking),  
which night(s) you need the room, and give her a roommate 
preference.  

DINNER: There will be a dinner at the A&M Faculty Club at 7:00 p.m. 
on Saturday, August 9. The charge for the subsidized dinner is $15 
per person for faculty and $10 per person for students.  Please tell 
Judy Gloyna if you (and spouse or companion, if applicable) will 
attend.  Checks should be made out to Dept. Math., TAMU.  
Reservations should be made by August 4 and payment made by 
August 7.
Judy Gloyna
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3368.

We expect to be able to cover housing, possibly in a double room, for 
most participants, from support the National Science Foundation has 
provided the Workshop.  Preference will be given to participants who 
do not have other sources of support, such as sponsored research 
grants.  When you ask Judy to book your room, please tell her if you 
are requesting support.  

W. Johnson,  johnson at math.tamu.edu
D. Larson,   larson at math.tamu.edu
G. Pisier,  pisier at math.tamu.edu
J. Zinn,    jzinn at math.tamu.edu

Talks:  Below are some of the invited 50 minute talks. There will also 
be several shorter talks.


Pete Casazza, Complemented Subspaces of Banach Lattices with 
Unconditional Bases
Ed Effros, On the notion of local reflexivity for operator spaces
Alex Koldobsky, Intersection bodies and the Busemann-Petty problem
Rafal Latala, Tails and moment estimates for some types of chaos
Mark Rudelson, On the Local Theory of non-symmetric convex bodies
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Best asymptotic constants in 
Khintchine's inequality


From alspach Tue Jul 29 10:05:08 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by S. Neuwirth
Content-Length: 1338

This is the abstract of the paper "Metric unconditionality and Fourier
analysis" by S. Neuwirth.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2.09. The paper
may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach neuwirthumapFourier.latex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:We investigate several aspects of almost
 $1$-unconditionality.  We characterize the metric unconditional
approximation property UMAP in terms of ``block unconditionality''.
Then we focus on translation invariant subspaces $L^p_E(T)$ and
$C_E(T)$ of functions on the circle and express block unconditionality
as arithmetical conditions on $E$.  Our work shows that the spaces
$L^p_E(T)$, $p$ an even integer, have a singular behaviour from the
almost isometric point of view: property UMAP does not interpolate
between spaces $L^p_E(T)$ and $L^{p+2}_E(T)$.  These arithmetical
conditions are used to construct counterexamples for several natural
questions and to investigate the maximal density of such sets $E$. We
also prove that if $E=\{n_k\}_{k\ge1}$ with $|n_{k+1}/n_k|\to\infty$,
then $C_E(T)$ has UMAP and we get a sharp estimate of the Sidon
constant of Hadamard sets. Finally, we investigate the relationship of
metric unconditionality and probability theory.

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			SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS'97

	   The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar
	 will meet  August 8 - 10 at Texas A&M in College Station.

SCHEDULE (tentative):  The talks on Friday will be in Blocker 457.  The 
talks on Saturday and Sunday will be in Blocker 120.  The schedule will be 
posted and updated periodically on the Home Page of the Workshop in 
Linear Analysis and Probability, 
http://www.math.tamu.edu/programs/workshops/linanalysis/ 
The Home Page also contains other information about the Workshop, 
including a list of participants and a schedule of seminars.  

HOUSING:  Contact Judy Gloyna, (judyg at math.tamu.edu, (409) 845-4412, 
(409) 845-6028  FaX) for help with housing.  Please tell Judy the type of 
accommodation you desire (smoking or nonsmoking),  which night(s) you 
need the room, and give her a roommate preference.  

DINNER: There will be a dinner at the A&M Faculty Club at 7:00 p.m. on 
Friday, August 8.  NOTE THE DATE CHANGE FROM THE PRELIMINARY 
ANNOUNCEMENT. The charge for the subsidized dinner is $15 per person 
for faculty and $10 per person for students.  Please tell Judy Gloyna if you 
(and spouse or companion, if applicable) will attend.  Checks should be 
made out to Dept. Math., TAMU.  Reservations MUST be made by August 4 
and payment should be made by August 7.  To help our planning, please 
make your reservation ASAP with Judy by email, phone, fax, or snailMail.
Judy Gloyna     
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3368.

We expect to be able to cover housing, possibly in a double room, for most 
participants, from support the National Science Foundation has provided 
the Workshop.  Preference will be given to participants who do not have 
other sources of support, such as sponsored research grants.  When you 
ask Judy to book your room, please tell her if you are requesting support.  

W. Johnson,  johnson at math.tamu.edu
D. Larson,   larson at math.tamu.edu
G. Pisier,  pisier at math.tamu.edu
J. Zinn,    jzinn at math.tamu.edu

			SCHEDULE   SUMIRFAS-97

Friday,  August 8

1:20-1:40   Coffee, Blocker 457
1:40-2:40   Ed Effros, On the notion of local reflexivity for operator spaces
2:50-3:50   Pete Casazza, Complemented Subspaces of Banach Lattices with
		Unconditional Bases
3:50-4:10   Coffee Break
4:10-4:40   Yossi Lonke, On Isometric embeddings into L_1
5:00-6:00   Rafal Latala, Tails & moment estimates for some types of chaos
6:30-7:00	Reception at the Faculty Club
7:00-9:00	Dinner at the Faculty Club

Saturday, August 9

  9:30-10:00 Coffee & Donuts, Blocker 119
10:00-11:00 Alex Koldobsky, Intersection bodies and the Busemann-Petty 
		  problem
11:10-12:10 Bojan Magajna, On operator modules
12:10-2:00   BREAK FOR LUNCH
  1:45-2:00   Coffee, Blocker 119
  2:00-3:00   Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Best asymptotic constants in 
		  Khintchine's inequality
  3:10-3:40   Dan Cazacu, Twisted sums and Fenchel-Orlicz spaces over the 
		  real plane
  3:50-4:20   Qing Gu, Questions concerning the phase of wavelets
  4:20-4:50   COFFEE BREAK
  4:50-5:50   Mark Rudelson, On the Local Theory of non-symmetric convex 
		  bodies

Sunday, August 10

  9:10-9:40   Coffee & Donuts
9:40-10:40   Valentin Ferenczi, Hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces    
		  and duality
10:50-11:20 Beata Randriantoanina, On isometric stability of 		
		  complemented subspaces of L_p
11:30-12:30 Erik Christensen, Invertibility preserving linear mappings


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			THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS'97

	   The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar
	 will meet  August 8 - 10 at Texas A&M in College Station.

SCHEDULE (tentative):  The talks on Friday will be in Blocker 457.  The 
talks on Saturday and Sunday will be in Blocker 120.  The schedule will be 
posted and updated periodically on the Home Page of the Workshop in 
Linear Analysis and Probability, 
http://www.math.tamu.edu/programs/workshops/linanalysis/ 
The Home Page also contains other information about the Workshop, 
including a list of participants and a schedule of seminars.  
NOTE CHANGES ON SUNDAY FROM SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT.

HOUSING:  Contact Judy Gloyna, (judyg at math.tamu.edu, (409) 845-4412, 
(409) 845-6028  FaX) for help with housing.  Please tell Judy the type of 
accommodation you desire (smoking or nonsmoking),  which night(s) you 
need the room, and give her a roommate preference.  

DINNER: There will be a buffet dinner at the A&M Faculty Club at 7:00 p.m. 
on Friday, August 8.  NOTE THE DATE CHANGE FROM THE PRELIMINARY 
ANNOUNCEMENT. The charge for the subsidized dinner is $15 per person 
for faculty and $10 per person for students, including beverages.  Please 
tell Judy Gloyna if you (and spouse or companion, if applicable) will attend.  
Checks should be made out to Dept. Math., TAMU.  Reservations MUST be 
made by August 4 and payment should be made by August 7.  To help our 
planning, please make your reservation ASAP with Judy by email, phone, 
fax, or snailMail.
Judy Gloyna     
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3368.

We expect to be able to cover housing, possibly in a double room, for most 
participants, from support the National Science Foundation has provided 
the Workshop.  Preference will be given to participants who do not have 
other sources of support, such as sponsored research grants.  When you 
ask Judy to book your room, please tell her if you are requesting support.  

W. Johnson,  johnson at math.tamu.edu
D. Larson,   larson at math.tamu.edu
G. Pisier,  pisier at math.tamu.edu
J. Zinn,    jzinn at math.tamu.edu

			SCHEDULE   SUMIRFAS-97

Friday,  August 8

1:20-1:40   Coffee, Blocker 457
1:40-2:40   Ed Effros, On the notion of local reflexivity for operator spaces
2:50-3:50   Pete Casazza, Complemented subspaces of Banach lattices with
		unconditional bases
3:50-4:10   Coffee Break
4:10-4:40   Yossi Lonke, On Isometric embeddings into L_1
5:00-6:00   Rafal Latala, Tails & moment estimates for some types of chaos
6:30-7:00	Reception at the Faculty Club
7:00-9:00	Dinner at the Faculty Club

Saturday, August 9

  9:30-10:00 Coffee & Donuts, Blocker 119
10:00-11:00 Alex Koldobsky, Intersection bodies and the Busemann-Petty 
		  problem
11:10-12:10 Bojan Magajna, On operator modules
12:10-2:00   BREAK FOR LUNCH
  1:45-2:00   Coffee, Blocker 119
  2:00-3:00   Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Best asymptotic constants in 
		  Khintchine's inequality
  3:10-3:40   Dan Cazacu, Twisted sums and Fenchel-Orlicz spaces over the 
		  real plane
  3:50-4:20   Qing Gu, Questions concerning the phase of wavelets
  4:20-4:50   COFFEE BREAK
  4:50-5:50   Mark Rudelson, On the local theory of non-symmetric convex 
		  bodies

Sunday, August 10

   8:45-9:10   Coffee & Donuts
  9:10-10:10  Erik Christensen, Invertibility preserving linear mappings
10:20-10:50  Beata Randrianantoanina, On isometric stability of 	
		   complemented subspaces of L_p
11:00-12:00 Valentin Ferenczi, Hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces    
		   and duality


From alspach Tue Aug 12 11:47:21 1997
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Subject: Abstract of a paper by Nakhle Asmar and Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Content-Length: 688

This is the abstract of the paper "Transference in spaces of analytic
measures" by Nakhle Asmar and Stephen Montgomery-Smith.  The paper is
typed in LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board
by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


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 Abstract:We prove results that transfer multipliers on $H_1$ to spaces
	  of measures that have certain spectral properties.  We
	  announce that these may be used to present a unified approach
	  to proving F&M Riesz type results, and as an example, give a
	  new proof of a result of Forelli.

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Subject: ICM98-CL15: First Announcement
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TO ALL MATHEMATICIANS WHO HAVE PRELIMINARILY PREREGISTERED FOR 
 THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS 1998 IN BERLIN

Fifteenth Circular Letter, August 18, 1997

 Subject ICM98-CL15: First Announcement

Dear colleague:

Imagine, at this moment in exactly one year, you are sitting 
in the great lecture hall of the International Congress Center
in Berlin and you are watching the Opening Ceremony of ICM'98 
progress. You will be

 - listening to words of welcome from the IMU President, 
   the President and the Honorary President of the ICM'98  
   Organizing Committee, 
 - hearing greetings by a representative of the President of 
   the Federal Republic of Germany (who is the protector of 
   the Congress), and welcome speeches of the Federal Minister 
   of Science and Technology and the Governing Mayor of Berlin
   (the two most important financial sponsors of ICM'98),
 - watching a short movie about Berlin, getting a glimpse of 
   the VideoMath Festival, and listening to music interludes, 
 - and, finally, you will be seeing the winners of the Fields 
   Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize enter the stage.

A modern version of Grimm's "Tischlein deck dich" will link
this event to the afternoon session with the laudationes on 
the prize winners and a Plenary Lecture delivered by one of 
the leading mathematicians of the world.

Wouldn't you want to tell your friends and colleagues about 
this event?



There has been a long tradition that the organizers of an 
International Congress send out a so-called First Announcement
to as many mathematicians as possible about one year before 
the Congress. We are following this tradition. 

The main aim of the First Announcement is to collect the addresses of
those mathematicians who are seriously interested in participating in
ICM'98. These are asked to request the Second Announcement in the way
described in the First Announcement (below). The Second Announcement
will contain all the details about ICM'98 that you would like to know.
(These can, of course, also be found on the ICM'98 server.) Those
who provide an e-mail address with their request will also receive 
the circular letters from the ICM'98 e-mail service.

IMPORTANT: 
==========
The persons who have submitted the request form for the 
Second Announcement (AND ONLY THESE) will receive the Second 
Announcement in January 1998 by ordinary mail.
 
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE: 
====================
If you have preliminarily preregistered for ICM'98 before (this is the
case if you obtained the present circular letter from the ICM'98 E-Mail
Server) you should not do anything at present. You will automatically 
receive a personal e-mail request form for the Second Announcement 
within the next week. This way you can check the data we have in our
data base and you may correct your mailing address if necessary. If you
have not received the request form by August 26, 1997 something went
wrong and we have to ask you to follow the procedure described in the
First Announcement.



With this First Announcement we try to reach, in particular, those
mathematicians who are not yet using electronic media intensively. We
have therefore asked all Mathematical Societies in the world (that we
know of), all Adhering Organizations of IMU and all National Committees
of Mathematics to distribute the First Announcement by mail or through
their newsletters. We are grateful for the support of many of these
institutions but quite a number did not react, unfortunately.

That is why we ask you for support. 

- Could you please forward this First Announcement to your friends and 
  colleagues who might be interested in ICM'98? 
- If you have relations to a Mathematical Society, please ask the editor 
  in charge of the newsletter to print the First Announcement in the 
  next issue. 
- Print the First Announcement and post it in your institute.

To make all this easy for you, we have produced a simple two-page
First Announcement without any fancy graphics etc. We provide it in
various versions.

Below you will find the ASCII version suitable for e-mail distribution.
If you call the URL

http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/First_Announcement

you will find 

- three postscript versions (two pages) of size about 300 Kb each
       - with color ICM'98 logo,
       - with grey-scale ICM'98 logo,
       - with black-white ICM'98 logo,
- a LATEX version (without ICM'98 Logo)
- three WORD versions (two pages) of size about 170 Kb each
       - with color ICM'98 logo,
       - with grey-scale ICM'98 logo,
       - with black-white ICM'98 logo,
- the ASCII version,
- and the corresponding logos in postscript format of size about 94 Kb. 

You should be able to print one of these on your printer. 

It is also possible to obtain the files by anonymous ftp from elib.zib.de 
in the subdirectory pub/IMU/HTML/ICM98/First_Announcement. 
The files of interest are

anc_col.ps       Announcement   Postscript                color      
anc_grey.ps                                               grey-scale
anc_bw.ps                                                 black-white
anc_col.doc                     Word                      color
anc_grey.doc                                              grey-scale
anc_bw.doc                                                black-white
anc_la.tex                      LaTeX                     (no logo)
anc.asc                         ASCII                     (no logo)
logo_col.ps      Logo           encapsulated Postscript   color       
logo_grey.ps                                              grey-scale
logo_bw.ps                                                black-white

If you want to help us by mailing First Announcements to some of
your colleagues we are also ready to mail any (reasonable) number of
printed Announcements to you. Just send me an e-mail with your mailing
address and the requested number of First Announcements.


Thanks for your help!


Martin Groetschel
President of the 
ICM'98 Organizing Committee



=================================================================


International Congress                                        MCM
of Mathematicians                                             XCV
Berlin, Germany                                               III
August 18-27, 1998                                            ICM


_________________________________________________________________

                      First Announcement
_________________________________________________________________


The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the next
International Congress of Mathematicians will take place in Berlin,
Germany, from Tuesday, August 18, through Thursday, August 27, 1998.

It will be held under the auspices of the International
Mathematical Union (IMU) and sponsored by many other institutions.


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                    Mathematical Program
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Responsibility for the scientific program lies with the Program
Committee appointed by IMU. There will be about twenty one-hour
Plenary Lectures covering recent developments in the major areas
of mathematics and about 170 forty-five-minute Invited Lectures
in nineteen sections. The sections are as follows:

 1. Logic
 2. Algebra
 3. Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry
 4. Algebraic Geometry
 5. Differential Geometry and Global Analysis
 6. Topology
 7. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
 8. Analysis
 9. Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
10. Partial Differential Equations
11. Mathematical Physics
12. Probability and Statistics
13. Combinatorics
14. Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science
15. Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
16. Applications
17. Control Theory and Optimization
18. Teaching and Popularization of Mathematics
19. History of Mathematics

Every registered participant (traditionally called Ordinary 
Member) of the Congress will have the opportunity to give a short
presentation, either during a poster session or in the form
of a fifteen-minute lecture. A formal call for such presentations
will be issued in the Second Announcement. Informal mathematical
seminars may be organized at the initiative of groups of
participants.  English, French, German, and Russian are
the official languages of the Congress.

All Plenary and Invited Lectures will be published in the
Proceedings of ICM'98; after the Congress, a complimentary copy
of these Proceedings will be sent to each Ordinary Member.
Abstracts of all lectures and of all short presentations will 
be distributed free of charge to Ordinary Members at Congress 
check-in.

The Fields Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize will be awarded
during the Opening Ceremony on the first day of the Congress.
This will take place in the International Congress Center
Berlin (ICC); all other scientific events will be held at
Technische Universitaet Berlin.  No scientific activities
are scheduled for Sunday, August 23.

In an effort to reach out to a wider audience, the ICM'98
organizers have initiated several cultural activities related
to mathematics that are attractive to the general public.
In particular, there will be a VideoMath Festival, software
demonstrations, talks about mathematics and its relations to
other subjects, several exhibitions (`Mathematics in the Arts',
etc.), and other events (`Mathematics and Music', etc.).

Special consideration will be given to the impact of the Nazi
regime on mathematics in Berlin and Germany.

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                         Social Events
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On August 18, a buffet-banquet for all registered participants
will be held at noon directly after the Opening Ceremony in the
ICC.  During the Congress, a number of guided tours of Berlin,
visits to museums, and walking tours will be offered.  On Sunday,
August 23, it will be possible to choose from several excursions.
For that evening, tickets have been reserved for the opera
`The Magic Flute' at the Deutsche Oper.  Registered participants
may purchase tickets in advance for these events as well as for
many day trips and pre- or post-congress tours to places of
interest in the vicinity of Berlin.

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                         Organization
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Up-to-date information about all aspects of ICM'98 is available
on the following website:

            http://elib.zib.de/ICM98

This includes information  about registration, abstract
submission, etc.  Correspondence should be directed to

            icm98 at zib.de

It will be forwarded to an appropriate member of the
Organizing Committee.  If electronic communication is
not available you may also write to

            ICM'98
            c/o Prof.Dr. J. Winkler
            TU Berlin, MA 8-2
            Strasse des 17. Juni 135
            D-10623 Berlin, Germany
            FAX: +49/30/314-21604

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                 Registration and Accommodation
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DER-CONGRESS, a professional congress and tour organizer, has been
appointed by the Organizing Committee to handle all non-scientific
matters for individual participants:  registration to the Congress
and the social events, hotel reservation, tourist program, collection
of registration fees, etc.  The formal registration procedure for the
Congress will be described in the Second Announcement (see below).

Participants will be housed in a variety of hotels in Berlin;
the necessary reservations have already been made by DER-CONGRESS.
In addition, DER-CONGRESS will make student residences available
and will provide a certain amount of private accommodation at a
cheap rate for participants willing to accept less comfort.
Detailed information on locations and rates will be provided
in the Second Announcement.

Forms for registration and accommodation requests will be
made available on the ICM'98 server in January 1998.

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                        Second Announcement
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The Second Announcement of ICM'98 will describe the activities
of the Congress in more detail and give instructions on how to
complete the registration process and obtain accommodation.
It will provide more, although not complete, information on the
scientific program, contain a call for contributed short presentations,
and give instructions regarding the submission of abstracts.

The Second Announcement will also include advice on how to proceed upon
arrival at airports and train stations, and it will be accompanied by a
brochure describing the day trips and tours organized by DER-CONGRESS.

Several conferences of a more specialized nature are scheduled
immediately before or after ICM'98. The Second Announcement
will also contain a list of such `satellite conferences'.

To receive the Second Announcement, fill out the form on the ICM'98
server (http://elib.zib.de/ICM98).  Alternatively, send an empty e-mail
to icm98 at zib.de with `Second Announcement' in the `SUBJECT' line
to receive an e-mail form.  If this is not possible for you,
please fill out the form below and send it to the ICM'98
Secretary Prof. Winkler (see address above).

The Second Announcement will be mailed from Berlin
at the beginning of 1998.

_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

      I would like to receive the Second Announcement of ICM'98.
_______________________________________________________________________

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*************************************************************************
This is a message from the ICM'98 e-mail server distributing  information
about ICM'98 and the International Mathematical Union to all persons  who
have  electronically   preregistered  for  the  INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
MATHEMATICIANS 1998 IN BERLIN. More information about ICM'98 can be found 
on the ICM'98 WWW-server. Its master site in Berlin has the URL: 

http://elib.zib.de/ICM98

To subscribe to this e-mail service and to obtain the Second Announcement 
of ICM'98, fill out the request form on the ICM'98 server. Alternatively, 
send an empty e-mail to icm98 at zib.de  with  `Second Announcement'  in the 
`SUBJECT' line to receive an e-mail form. 
*************************************************************************


+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Electronic Information on ICM'98 at URL: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98|
|         (with request form for Second Announcement)             |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| ICM'98 General E-mail Address:           icm98 at zib.de           |
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| Address for ICM'98            ICM'98                            |
| General Correspondence:       c/o Prof. Dr. J. Winkler          |
|                               TU Berlin, MA 8-2                 |
|                               Str. des 17. Juni 135             |
|                               D-10623 Berlin, Germany           |
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| Winkler's personal          | Phone:  +49/30/314-24105          |
| phone, fax, e-mail:         | Fax:    +49/30/314-21604          |
|                             | E-mail: winkler at math.tu-berlin.de |
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| President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee:                   |
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| Prof. Dr. M. Groetschel     | E-mail:    groetschel at zib.de      |
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From alspach Tue Aug 26 14:42:28 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by H. Rosenthal
Content-Length: 811

This is the abstract of the paper "On an inequality of A.~Grothendieck
concerning operators on $L^1$" by H. Rosenthal.  The paper is typed in
AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach rosenthalgroth.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:In 1955, A.~Grothendieck proved a basic inequality which
shows that any bounded linear operator between $L^1(\mu)$-spaces maps
(Lebesgue-) dominated sequences to dominated sequences.  An elementary
proof of this inequality is obtained via a new decomposition principle
for the lattice of measurable functions.  An exposition is also given
of the M.~L\'evy extension theorem for operators defined on subspaces
of $L^1(\mu)$-spaces.

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From alspach Fri Sep  5 17:59:52 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N.J. Kalton
Content-Length: 408

This is the abstract of the paper "A note on pairs of projections" by
N.J. Kalton.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded
from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting
the command


	 get banach kaltonproj.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:We give a brief proof of a recent result of Avron, Seiler and
Simon.

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From alspach Tue Sep  9 09:21:26 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by P.G. Casazza and N.J. Kalton
Content-Length: 535

This is the abstract of the paper "Generalizing the Paley-Wiener
perturbation theory for Banach spaces" by P.G. Casazza and N.J.
Kalton.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from
the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach casazzakaltonpaley.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:We extend the Paley-Wiener pertubation theory to linear
 operators mapping a subspace of one Banach space into another Banach
space.

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From alspach Tue Sep  9 09:25:06 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N.J. Kalton
Content-Length: 1084

This is the abstract of the paper "Spectral characterization of sums of
commutators I" by N.J. Kalton.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper
may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach kaltoncommut.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:Suppose  $\Cal  J$  is  a  two-sided  quasi-Banach  ideal of
compact  operators   on  a   separable  infinite-dimensional Hilbert
space $\Cal H$.  We show that an operator  $T\in\Cal J$  can  be
expressed  as  finite  linear  combination   of commutators $[A,B]$
where $A\in\Cal J$ and $B\in\Cal  B(\Cal H)$ if and only  its
eigenvalues $(\lambda_n)$ (arranged  in decreasing order  of absolute
value, repeated  according to algebraic multiplicity and augmented by
zeros if  necessary) satisfy   the   condition   that   the
diagonal   operator $\diag\{\frac1n(\lambda_1+\cdots +\lambda_n)\}$ is
a  member of  $\Cal  J.$  This  answers  (for  quasi-Banach  ideals) a
question raised by Dykema, Figiel, Weiss and Wodzicki.

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From alspach Tue Sep  9 09:33:54 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N.J. Kalton and M. Mitrea
Content-Length: 622

This is the abstract of the paper "Stability results on interpolation
scales of quasi-Banach spaces and applications" by N.J. Kalton and M.
Mitrea.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from
the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach kaltonmitreastable.tex


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 Abstract:We  investigate   stability   of   Fredholm  properties  on
interpolation scales of quasi-Banach spaces.  This  analysis is
motivated  by  problems  arising  in  PDE's  and several applications
are presented.

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From alspach Tue Sep  9 09:38:57 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N.J. Kalton and M.I. Ostrovskii
Content-Length: 1088

This is the abstract of the paper "Distances between Banach spaces" by
N.J. Kalton and M.I. Ostrovskii.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The
paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach kaltonostrovdist.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:The  main  object  of  the  paper  is  to study the distance
between  Banach  spaces  introduced  by  Kadets.  For Banach spaces $X$
and $Y$, the Kadets distance is defined to be the infimum of the
Hausdorff distance $d(B_X,B_Y)$  between the respective  closed  unit
balls  over  all  isometric linear embeddings of $X$  and $Y$ into  a
common Banach  space $Z.$ This is compared with the Gromov-Hausdorff
distance which is defined to be the infimum of $d(B_X,B_Y)$ over all
isometric embeddings  into  a  common  metric  space  $Z$.    We prove
continuity type results for the Kadets distance including  a result
that  shows  that   this  notion  of  distance   has applications to
the theory of complex interpolation.

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From alspach Tue Sep  9 09:44:00 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by N.J. Kalton and I.E. Verbitsky
Content-Length: 2067

This is the abstract of the paper "Nonlinear equations and weighted
norm  inequalities" by N.J. Kalton and I.E. Verbitsky.  The paper is
typed in AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by
ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach kaltonverbitsknonlinear.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:We study connections between the problem of the existence of
positive  solutions  for  certain  nonlinear  equations  and weighted
norm  inequalities.    In  particular,  we  obtain explicit  criteria
for  the  solvability  of  the Dirichlet problem $$\aligned -& \Delta u
= v \, u^q + w, \quad u \ge 0 \quad \text {on}  \quad \Omega, \\  &u =
0  \quad \text {on} \quad \partial  \Omega, \endaligned  $$ on  a
regular domain $\Omega$ in $\bold R^n$ in the ``superlinear case'' $q >
1$.  The coefficients  $v, w$  are arbitrary  positive measurable
functions (or measures) on $\Omega$.  We also consider  more general
nonlinear differential  and integral equations,  and study  the
spaces  of  coefficients and solutions naturally associated with these
problems, as well as the corresponding capacities.

Our characterizations of the existence of positive solutions take into
account  the interplay between  $v$, $w$, and  the corresponding
Green's kernel.  They are not only sufficient, but also necessary, and
are established without any a priori regularity assumptions on $v$ and
$w$; we also obtain  sharp two-sided estimates of solutions  up to the
boundary.   Some of our results are new even if $v \equiv 1$ and
$\Omega$  is a ball or half-space.

The corresponding weighted norm inequalities are proved  for integral
operators with kernels satisfying a refined version of  the
so-called  $3   G$-inequality  by   an  elementary ``integration by
parts''  argument.  This  also gives a  new unified proof for some
classical inequalities including  the Carleson  measure  theorem  for
Poisson integrals and trace inequalities for Riesz potentials and Green
potentials.

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From alspach Tue Sep  9 09:47:16 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by K.J. Dykema and N.J. Kalton
Content-Length: 856

This is the abstract of the paper "Spectral characterization of sums of
commutators II" by K.J. Dykema and N.J. Kalton.  The paper is typed in
AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach dykemakaltoncommut.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:For  countably  generated   ideals,  $\Jc$,  of   $B(\Hil)$,
geometric stability is necessary for the canonical  spectral
characterization of sums of $(\Jc,B(\Hil))$--commutators  to hold.
This answers  a question  raised by  Dykema, Figiel, Weiss and
Wodzicki.   There are  some ideals, $\Jc$,  having quasi--nilpotent
elements   that    are   not   sums    of
$(\Jc,B(\Hil))$--commutators.   Also, every  trace on  every
geometrically stable ideal is a spectral trace.

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From alspach Tue Sep 16 13:26:36 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Beata Randrianantoanina
Content-Length: 795

This is the abstract of the paper "On isometric stability of
complemented subspaces of ${L_p}$" by Beata Randrianantoanina.  The
paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach brandriisomstabLp.latex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:We show that Rudin-Plotkin isometry extension theorem in
 $L_p$ implies that when $X$ and $Y$ are isometric subspaces of $L_p$
and $p$ is not an even integer, $1 \leq p < \infty$, then $X$ is
complemented in $L_p$ if and only if $Y$ is; moreover the constants of
complementation of $X$ and $Y$ are equal.  We provide examples
demonstrating that this fact fails when $p$ is an even integer larger
than 2.

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From alspach Tue Sep 16 13:30:54 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Alvaro Arias and Gelu Popescu
Content-Length: 1187

This is the abstract of the paper "Noncommutative interpolation and Poisson
transforms" by Alvaro Arias and Gelu Popescu.  The paper is typed in
AMSTeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach ariaspopescuinterpolation.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:General results of interpolation (eg. Nevanlinna-Pick) by
 elements in the noncommutative analytic Toeplitz algebra $F^\infty$
 (resp. noncommutative disc algebra $A_n$) with consequences to the
 interpolation by bounded operator-valued analytic functions in the
 unit ball of ${\bf C}^n$ are obtained.

 Non-commutative Poisson transforms are used to provide new von Neumann
 type inequalities.  Completely isometric representations of the
 quotient algebra $F^\infty/J$ on Hilbert spaces, where $J$ is any
 $w^*$-closed, 2-sided ideal of $F^\infty$, are obtained and used to
 construct a $w^*$-continuous, $F^\infty/J$--functional calculus
 associated to row contractions $T=[T_1,\dots, T_n]$ when
 $f(T_1,\dots,T_n)=0$ for any $f\in J$. Other properties of the dual
 algebra $F^\infty/J$ are considered.


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From alspach Tue Sep 16 13:35:22 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Al Baernstein II and Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Content-Length: 719

This is the abstract of the paper "Some conjectures about integral
means of $\partial f$ and   $\overline{\partial} f$ " by Al Baernstein
II and Stephen Montgomery-Smith.  The paper is typed in AMSTeX. The
paper may be downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to
ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach baernsteinmontsmithconj.tex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:We discuss some conjectural inequalities that are related to
singular integrals, martingales, quasiconformal mappings, and the
calculus of variations.  Specifically, we present evidence for a
conjecture of Iwaniec concerning the best constant for the
Beurling-Ahlfors Operator.

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From alspach Fri Sep 19 12:58:49 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by Vladimir Kadets, Roman Shvidkoy, Gleb Sirotkin and Dirk Werner
Content-Length: 1206

This is the abstract of the paper "Banach spaces with the Daugavet
property" by Vladimir Kadets, Roman Shvidkoy, Gleb Sirotkin and Dirk
Werner.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2.09. The paper may be downloaded
from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting
the command


	 get banach kadetsshvidsirotwernerdaug.latex


 to: majordomo at littlewood.math.okstate.edu.


 Abstract:A Banach space $X$ is said to have the Daugavet property if
 every
  operator $T: X\to X$ of rank~$1$ satisfies $\|Id+T\| = 1+\|T\|$.  We
  show that then every weakly compact operator satisfies this equation
  as well and that $X$ contains a copy of $\ell_{1}$. However, $X$ need
  not contain a copy of $L_{1}$. We also study pairs of spaces
  $X\subset Y$ and operators $T: X\to Y$ satisfying $\|J+T\|=1+\|T\|$,
  where $J: X\to Y$ is the natural embedding.  This leads to the result
  that a Banach space with the Daugavet property does not embed into a
  space with an unconditional basis. In another direction, we
  investigate spaces where the set of operators with
  $\|Id+T\|=1+\|T\|$  is as small as possible and give
  characterisations in terms of a smoothness condition.

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"CAREER AWARDING IN GREECE TO GREEK-SPEAKING RESEARCHERS
LIVING ABROAD" PROGRAMME


September 24, 1997

Dear Colleague:

The Analysis and Logic group at the Department of Mathematics of the
University of Crete, Greece, is seeking candidates for a 3-4 year
research position funded jointly by the General Secretariat of
Research and Technology (GSRT) and the European Union. Funding is
confirmed only after the candidate's name is specified, hence
we are looking for an exceptionally good person in order to strengthen the
chances of success of our application to the GSRT
(the announcement of the GSRT itself follows at the end of this message).

The candidates should

* be able to speak Greek
* reside currently outside Greece
* work in the general area of Analysis or Logic (this should be
  interpreted broadly)
* have a minimum of two years of postdoctoral experience. 

There are no teaching requirements and the salary is slightly less
than that of an Assistant Professor. Funding for supporting
one graduate student will also be available. In very exceptional
cases we might consider hiring a more senior person (at a higher salary).

The succesful candidate will be able to conduct independent research
in one of the most dynamic universities in Greece, located on
the beautiful island of Crete. Although the department is
relatively new (20 years old) it has been succesful in sustaining
significant research activity (weekly seminars, graduate program,
organizing several conferences, and a steady stream
of visitors throughout the year), maintaining a good library
and computational facilities.
In the School of Sciences there is also a very good Physics department
as well as departments of Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science.
Our department has close to 30 faculty members.

The deadline for submitting the proposal to the GSRT is November 10, 1997,
and our Department requires that all candidates notify us before
October 25, 1997. Arrange for three (3) letters of recommendation,
an up-to-date CV and any supporting material to arrive by that date (25/10)
at the address:

  Prof. Souzana Papadopoulou,
  Analysis and Logic Group,
  Department of Mathematics,
  University of Crete,
  714 09 Iraklio, Crete,
  GREECE

E-mail (souzana at math.uch.gr) and FAX (+30-81-234516) are preferred
because of the tight timing.

Address all questions to Prof Papadopoulou or myself (kolount at math.uch.gr).

Faculty members of the Analysis and Logic Group at the U of Crete:
- ------------------------------------------------------------------

I. Deliyanni (Visiting Assist. Professor/ banach spaces)
A. Giannopoulos (Assist. Professor/ convexity)
E. Katsoprinakis (Assist. Professor/ harmonic analysis)
M. Kolountzakis (Visiting Assist. Professor/ harmonic analysis, number theory)
M. Lambrou (Assoc. Professor/ operator theory, history of mathematics)
M. Papadimitrakis (Assoc. Professor/ harmonic analysis, convexity)
S. Papadopoulou (Professor/ convexity)
T. Pheidas (Assoc. Professor/ logic)
K. Skandalis (Assist. Professor/ logic, set theory)
N. Spanoudakis (Visiting Assist. Professor/ operator theory)

- -------------------GSRT Announcement-----------------------
>CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR
>" CAREER AWARDING IN GREECE TO GREEK -SPEAKING
>RESEARCHERS  LIVING ABROAD " PROGRAMME
>
>* GSRT  launches the new  "Career Awarding in
>Greek universities,  research centers and institutes"
>Programme, which will be financed by EU as well as
> Greek state funds, under  the Operational Programme
> for Research and Technology (EPET II).
>It is  reserved for Greek-speaking researchers
>living and working abroad at the time of the call
>for proposals, for a period not less than two years.
>* The Career Awarding Programme aims at attracting 
>distinguished young researchers, having at least
>a two-years post-doctoral research experience abroad,
> in order to  join research teams in GreeK universities,
> research centers or institutes and carry out specific
> and well-defined research, technology and training
> activities.
>* The knowledge of the Greek language is considered
>as a strong  cultural link between those scientists
>and Greece. Thus  it is expected that Greek-speaking
>researchers will  be interested in moving to Greece
>for a rather long stay (three years) with a view
>to contribute to the upgrading or further development
>of the research  and technology activities
>of the Greek research teams.
>* The proposal for  a  Career Awarding project
>must be submitted to the GSRT by a research unit
>attached to a university or a public research
>establishment in Greece which consists the Host
>Research Unit. The selection of the "foreign"
>researcher is left to the responsibility of the
>Host Research Unit upon criteria of scientific
>excellence and through transparent procedures.
>Particular attention will be given on that each
>interested research unit gives the widest possible
>publicity to its intention to host a  "foreign"
>researcher.
>
>DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS :
> NOVEMBER 10 1997


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\begin{document}

                
\begin{center}

{\bf  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT}


GEOMETRIC ASPECTS OF FOURIER AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS



                         August 10 - 14, 1998

                    University of Kiel, Germany 
              
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The aim of this ''Satellite Conference'' before the ICM 1998 in Berlin (August 18-27, 1998) is to bring together mathematicians working in Harmonic Analysis and/or Banach Space Theory and to enhance the interaction between both areas of research. Young scientists should benefit from the possibility to meet many leading experts in Fourier and Functional Analysis. It is planned to have survey lectures of general interest to all participants in the morning and a limited number of talks in parallel sessions in the afternoon.
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The organizers:
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\begin{tabular}{ll}
      H. K\"onig  (Kiel) &            D. M\"uller  (Kiel)\\
      J. Lindenstrauss  (Jerusalem) & E.M.  Stein  (Princeton)
\end{tabular}
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The list of speakers will include:

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{llll}

K. Ball&         A. Carbery&         R. Coifman&       M. Cowling\\
M. Christ&       C. Fefferman&       T. Gowers&        W. Hebisch\\
A. Hulanicki&    W.B. Johnson&       N. Kalton&        B. Kashin\\       C. Kenig&        J. Lindenstrauss&   B. Maurey&        V. Milman\\       A. Pe{\l}czy\'{n}ski&   A. Pietsch&  G. Pisier&        D. Preiss\\       T. Schlumprecht&  A. Seeger&         P. Sj\"ogren&     E.M. Stein\\      N. Tomczak-Jaegermann&  L. Tzafriri& A.L. Volberg&  T. Wolff
\end{tabular}
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The conference is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the University of Kiel. Funds, however, are limited, and there will be a small registration fee. We encourage all participants to ask for support from their home university or other institutions.
\medskip

Everybody interested in the topics of the conference is warmly invited to attend. Please let us know about your intention to participate by January 31, 1998. A second announcement with further information, in particular, concerning hotel accommodation, will be distributed in  February 1998.
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For further information, please contact:
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H. K\"onig / D. M\"uller, Mathematisches Seminar, Universit\"at Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany
E-Mail: conf98 at math.uni-kiel.de
www-site: http://conf98.math.uni-kiel.de
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If you intend to participate, please return the following form, preferably by e-mail:
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E-Mail:& conf98 at math.uni-kiel.de\\[2mm]
or&
H. K\"onig / D. M\"uller\\
&Mathematisches Seminar\\
& Universit\"at Kiel\\ &24098 Kiel\\ &Germany
\end{tabular}
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In case you are interested to give a lecture, please send us a title and a short abstract at the latest by May 15, 1998. We ask you to understand that the number of lectures in the parallel sessions is limited, so that we may not be able to accommodate every proposed lecture in these sessions. However, additional conference rooms for informal talks and discussions will be provided.
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\item[$\Box$] I intend to participate in the conference on Geometric 
Aspects of Fourier and Functional Analysis.
\item[$\Box$] I propose to give a lecture.
\item[$\Box$] Title and abstract are attached.
\item[$\Box$] Titel and abstract will be submitted until May 15, 1998.
\end{enumerate}

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{\bf Name:} \dotfill
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{\bf Institution:}\dotfill
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{\bf Address:}\dotfill
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{\bf Electronic mail:}\dotfill
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{\bf Phone:}\dotfill
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{\bf Fax:}\dotfill

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                   What am I if I will not participate ?
                           Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery


               
               
               
                     Spring School on Functional Analysis


                           First Announcement




Dear Colleague,

Following a longstanding tradition, the Faculty of Mathematics 
and Physics of Charles University, will organize a Spring School 
on Functional Analysis. The School will be held at Paseky, 
in a chalet in the Krkonose Mountains,  April 19 - 25, 1998. The
program will consist of series of lectures on:

                     Recent Trends in Banach Spaces

delivered by:

Joram Lindenstrauss
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 


Gilles Godefroy
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France


Jos Orihuela Calatayud
University of Murcia, Spain


Rafael Paya
University of Granada, Spain



Short abstract of a series of lectures will be available on

        http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/katedry/kma/ss



The purpose of this Meeting is to bring together adepts who
share a common interest in the field. There will be opportunities 
for short communications and informal discussions. Graduate students 
and others beginning their mathematical career are encouraged to
participate.



The conference fee will be 300,- US dollars.
A reduced rate of 250,- US dollars will be offered, provided
a letter guaranteeing participation reaches the organizers
before January 15, 1998. The conference fee includes all local
expenses (room and board) and transportation between Prague and Paseky.
The fee is the same for accompanying persons.  

The organizers may provide financial support to a limited number 
of students. Applications must be sent before January 15, 1998.


Payment of the fee should be made in  cash at the registration 
desk in Paseky, or it may be remitted by a  bank  transfer to

Komer\v cn\'\i  banka,  Praha 1,  V\'aclavsk\'e n\'am. 42,
account  No. 38330-021/0100,  v.s. 810

(a copy  of the  transfer should be presented at the registration 
desk at Paseky).
Unfortunately, cheques cannot be used and will not be accepted.
 

In case of any difficulty you should contact the organizers.

The village of Paseky lies in the slopes of
the Krkonose Mountains, in North Bohemia. Accommodation
consists of rooms for two or three people. There are excellent
facilities and conditions for sporting activities:
hiking trips, soccer, mini-golf and sauna.
A special bus from Prague to Paseky will leave at  4 p.m. on
April, 1998. The bus from Paseky will arrive
in Prague on April 25, at 11.30 a. m.

In case of interest please fill out the enclosed preliminary 
registration form and return it before  January 15, 1998.
A final announcement with further details will be mailed in due time.

Due to the limited capacity of accommodation facilities the
organizers may be forced to decline registration.

We look forward to meeting you in the Czech Republic.

Jaroslav Lukes, Jiri Kottas


Mailing address:
Katedra matematick\'e anal\'yzy 
Matematicko-fyzik\'aln\'\i fakulta UK 
Sokolovsk\'a 83, 186 75 Praha 8
Czech Republic


Phone/Fax: 420 - 2  - 232 3390
E-mail: paseky at karlin.mff.cuni.cz

http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/katedry/kma/ss

Kindly inform colleagues interested in this field !


*************************************************************************

                Preliminary registration form


    Spring School on Functional Analysis, Paseky 1998




Name:
Address:

E-mail:
Fax:
Phone:

I plan on attending the Spring School:     Yes    No


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Subject: INFORMAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR at KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
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INFORMAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Saturday, November 15, 1997

We will begin at NOON in the Mathematics Department Building, 
with an elaborately catered lunch (well, sort of). Then, around 1 PM:

Denka Kutzarova (Oxford, OH) ``Modified mixed Tsirelson spaces 
and applications to weak Hilbert spaces''

Berit Stensones (Ann Arbor, MI) ``Fatou-Bieberbach domains 
and the Michael conjecture''

Hector N. Salas (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and East Lansing, MI)
``Hypercyclic and supercyclic operators''

Seasonal refreshments and beverages 
will be available during and after each talk. 
ALL ARE WELCOME

Richard Aron, Joe Diestel, Per Enflo, Vladimir Gurariy, 
Bob Lohman, Victor Lomonosov, Andrew Tonge (organizers)



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Reply-to: Aristides Katavolos <akatavol at eudoxos.dm.uoa.gr>
Subject: Position in Athens
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"CAREER AWARDING IN GREECE TO GREEK-SPEAKING RESEARCHERS
LIVING ABROAD" PROGRAMME


November 4, 1997

Dear Colleague:

The Analysis Section of the Department of Mathematics of the
University of Athens, Greece, is seeking candidates for a 3-4 year
research position funded jointly by the General Secretariat of
Research and Technology (GSRT) and the European Union. Funding is
confirmed only after the candidate's name is specified, hence
we are looking for an exceptionally good person in order to
strengthen the
chances of success of our application to the GSRT
(the announcement of the GSRT itself follows at the end of this
message).

The candidates should

* be able to speak Greek
* reside currently outside Greece
* work in the general area of Pure or Applied Analysis (this should
be
  interpreted broadly)
* have a minimum of two years of postdoctoral experience 
(this should be  interpreted broadly).

There are no teaching requirements and the salary is slightly less
than that of an Assistant Professor. Funding for supporting
one graduate student will also be available. In very exceptional
cases we might consider hiring a more senior person (at a higher
salary).

The deadline for submitting the proposal to the GSRT is November 28,
1997,
and our Department requires that all candidates notify us before
November 20, 1997. Arrange for an up-to-date CV, a brief research 
proposal  and any supporting material to arrive by that date (20/11)
at the address:

  Prof. Leonidas Tsitsas,
Department of Mathematics,
  University of Athens,
  157 84 Athens,
  GREECE

E-mail : akatavol at eudoxos.uoa.gr 
 	ldalla at eudoxos.uoa.gr 
FAX (+30-1-7243502) 
are preferred because of the tight timing.

Other information can be found at 
	http: //www.math.uoa.gr

- -------------------GSRT Announcement-----------------------
>CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR
>" CAREER AWARDING IN GREECE TO GREEK -SPEAKING
>RESEARCHERS  LIVING ABROAD " PROGRAMME
>
>* GSRT  launches the new  "Career Awarding in
>Greek universities,  research centers and institutes"
>Programme, which will be financed by EU as well as
> Greek state funds, under  the Operational Programme
> for Research and Technology (EPET II).
>It is  reserved for Greek-speaking researchers
>living and working abroad at the time of the call
>for proposals, for a period not less than two years.
>* The Career Awarding Programme aims at attracting 
>distinguished young researchers, having at least
>a two-years post-doctoral research experience abroad,
> in order to  join research teams in GreeK universities,
> research centers or institutes and carry out specific
> and well-defined research, technology and training
> activities.
>* The knowledge of the Greek language is considered
>as a strong  cultural link between those scientists
>and Greece. Thus  it is expected that Greek-speaking
>researchers will  be interested in moving to Greece
>for a rather long stay (three years) with a view
>to contribute to the upgrading or further development
>of the research  and technology activities
>of the Greek research teams.
>* The proposal for  a  Career Awarding project
>must be submitted to the GSRT by a research unit
>attached to a university or a public research
>establishment in Greece which consists the Host
>Research Unit. The selection of the "foreign"
>researcher is left to the responsibility of the
>Host Research Unit upon criteria of scientific
>excellence and through transparent procedures.
>Particular attention will be given on that each
>interested research unit gives the widest possible
>publicity to its intention to host a  "foreign"
>researcher.
>
>DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS :
> NOVEMBER 28 1997




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To: banach at littlewood.math.okstate.edu
Subject: Show-Me Seminar (Columbia, Missouri)
Reply-to: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 14:35:34 -0600
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Announcing:

      The Fall 1997 Show-Me Meeting

             December 5 1997

     University of Missouri-Columbia
          Physics Building 114
            3:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Main Speakers:

Michael Lacey: On the role of Carleson's Theorem in Analysis
Alan McIntosh: Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis

There will be a dinner afterwards at 6:00p.m. for a reasonable
charge.

Contact stephen at math.missouri.edu for more information and dinner
reservations (please inform me if you have any special dietary
requirements.)



Abstracts:

Michael Lacey, Georgia Tech.

On the role of Carleson's Theorem in Analysis

Lennart Carleson's theorem of 1965 asserts that the Fourier
series of a square integrable function converges pointwise.  The theorem
requires sophisticated methods of decomposition of functions in ways that
are sensitive to time and frequency behavior.  I will describe those
aspects of harmonic analysis that are known to be related to Carleson's
Theorem, and expose elements of a new proof of Carleson's Theorem.  Much
of the material of this lecture is joint work with Christoph Thiele.



Alan McIntosh, Macquarie University, Sydney and
               University of Missouri, Columbia.

Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis

I shall explore some connections between harmonic analysis and
the spectral theory of operators in Banach spaces, such as the
relationship between quadratic estimates and the boundedness of
a holomorphic functional calculus.




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To: banach at littlewood.math.okstate.edu
Subject: Graduate Study at U. of Missouri
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:41:02 -0600
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Dear Colleague,

==============================================================================
                               Department of Mathematics
                            University of Missouri-Columbia
                                Columbia, Missouri 65211

                       Homepage http://www.math.missouri.edu
              
                           Graduate Studies in Mathematics at MU
                            Ph.D., M.A. and M.S.T. in Mathematics
                               M.S. in Applied Mathematics
                               ($10,000-$20,000 plus tuition )

Nearly all of the graduate students in the department receive some form of
financial support.  Departmental fellowships with or without teaching of
$13,000 to $20,000 as well as graduate teaching assistantships of $10,000 to
$16,000 are available to support new students.  Summer session support is
additional.  Tuition and academic fees are waived. Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply. 

To learn more about the exciting recent developments of our department and
see why you should apply and join this successful department
please visit:
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~elias/graduatestudies/content.html  

            Dual Masters in Mathematics & Economics

We offer qualified students the option of obtaining both an M.S. degree in
applied mathematics and an M.A. degree in economics within an integrated
program that may be completed within two years.  After completion of the
masters degree, the student has the option to continue in the Ph.D. program
in either department.
  
Special fellowship support for the dual degree is available through the
Department of Mathematics.  Exceptional students may receive stipend
payments of up to $14,000 plus tuition in the first year of study with no
teaching obligations, and $14,000 plus tuition in the second and third years
with minimal teaching requirements (usually, three hours per week).
  
Request An Application Package from:
http://www.math.missouri.edu/curr/undergrad/admissform.html

Or print one yourself(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01)
http://www.math.missouri.edu/curr/grad/pdf/packet.pdf

Download  Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01 from:
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For more information, please write or e-mail Professor Nakhle Asmar,
Director of Graduate Studies, 
nakhle at math.missouri.edu, or visit our home page,
http://www.math.missouri.edu. 
AA/EOE



Elias Saab, Chair
Department of Mathematics
202 Math Science Building
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211

Phone: 573-882-0635 (Office)
       573-445-5449 (Home)

Fax:   573-882-1869
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From alspach Wed Nov 19 09:39:42 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by M. B. Ruskai and E. Werner
Content-Length: 792

This is the abstract of the paper "A pair of optimal inequalities
related to the error function" by M. B. Ruskai and E. Werner.  The
paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


	 get banach ruskwernerrfun.latex


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 Abstract:The Error Function \begin{eqnarray} V(x)  & \equiv &
\sqrt{\pi} e^{x^2} [1 - \hbox{erf}(x)]  \\ & = &  \int_0^\infty  \frac{
e^{-u} }{\sqrt{x^2 + u}} du = 2 e^{x^2}\int_x^\infty  e^{-t^2} dt
\nonumber \end{eqnarray} arises in many contexts, from probability to
mathematical physics.  We give estimates for the Error Function from
above and below which are optimal within a certain class of functions.

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From alspach Wed Nov 19 09:49:04 1997
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by S. Bates, W. B. Johnson, J. Lindenstrauss, D. Preiss, and G. Schechtman
Content-Length: 868

This is the abstract of the paper "Nonlinear quotients" by S. Bates, W.
B. Johnson, J. Lindenstrauss, D. Preiss, and G. Schechtman.  The paper
is typed in Plain_TeX. The paper may be downloaded from the bulletin
board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the command


	 get banach batjohlinpreschquotients.tex


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 Abstract:Lipschitz quotient mappings and uniform quotient mappings
between Banach spaces are introduced and investigated. In particular,
it is shown that if a Banach space is a uniform quotient of $L_p$,
$1<p<\infty$, then it is isomorphic to a linear quotient of $L_p$. For
the purpose of studying quotient mappings and also for their own
interest, new concepts related to approximating general Lipschitz
functions by affine functions are introduced and characterized.

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Subject: System downtime at math.okstate.edu
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 16:06:16 -0600
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Our computer systems  will be down due to a schedule power outage Dec 29
and 30.

Dale Alspach


From alspach Fri Jan  2 11:41:31 1998
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by S.A. Argyros and V. Felouzis
Content-Length: 775

This is the abstract of the paper "Interpolating hereditarily
indecomposable Banach spaces" by S.A. Argyros and V. Felouzis.  The
paper is typed in LaTeX2e. There are some problems with the laTeX so the
postscript file is also available. The paper may be downloaded from the
bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or transmitting the
command


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 Abstract:It is shown that every Banach space either contains $\ell ^1$
or it has an infinite dimensional closed subspace which is a quotient
of a H.I. Banach space.Further on, $L^p(\lambda )$, $1<p<\infty $,  is
a quotient of a H.I Banach space.

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From alspach Mon Jan 19 15:22:25 1998
To: banach
Subject: Abstract of a paper by M. Meyer and E. Werner
Content-Length: 648

This is the abstract of the paper "On the p-affine surface area" by M.
Meyer and E. Werner.  The paper is typed in LaTeX2e. The paper may be
downloaded from the bulletin board by ftp to ftp.math.okstate.edu or
transmitting the command


	 get banach meyerwern2.latex


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 Abstract:We give geometric interpretations of certain affine
invariants of convex bodies.  The affine invariants are the p-affine
surface areas introduced by Lutwak.  The geometric interpretations
involve generalizations of the Santal${\mbox{\'o}}$-bodies introduced
by the authors in a previous paper.

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