The following have accepted our invitation to come. They will either give three expository talks on a topic of current interest, or give an invited talk in the afternoon conference part.


Professor Aldo Conca, DIMA, Genova, Italy
Professor Marc Chardin, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, France
Profesor Santiago Zarzuela, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Professor Hidefumi Ohsugi, Rikkyo University, Japan
Professor Bhaskar Bagchi, I.S.I., Bangalore
Professor Kamran Divaani-Aazar, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran
Professor Jaydeep V Chipalkatti, University of British Columbia, Canada
Professor Ming-chang Kang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Professor Surinder Sehgal, The Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Professor Srikanth Iyengar, University of Missouri, U.S.A.
Professor Le Tuan Hoa, Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam
Professor N. V. Trung, Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam
Professor Nguyen Tu Cuong, Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam
Professor Lorenzo Robbiano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Genova, Italy
Professor Gregor Kemper, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Professor Keiichi Watanabe, Nihon Univ., Japan
Professor Graham Leuschke, University of Kansas, Lawrence, U.S.A.
Professor Irena Swanson, New Mexico State University, U.S.A.
Professor Hibi Takayuki, Osaka University, Japan
Professor Winfried Bruns, Univeristy of Osnabruck, Germany
Professor Harm Derksen, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Professor Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, U.S.A.
Professor Serkan Hosten,San Francisco State University, U.S.A. Prof. Diana Macclagan, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Dr. Clare D'Cruz, C.M.I., Chennai.