Plenary Addresses

Alexander V. Arhangel'skii (Moscow State Univ. Russia and Ohio Univ. USA)
     Title: " D-spaces, addition theorems and covering properties" with R.Z. Buzyakova
Robert J. Daverman (Univ. Tennessee, USA)
     Title: "Approximate Fibrations and PL Fibrators"
Mario Eudave-Munoz (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: " Meridional surfaces and $(1,1)$-knots"
Norio Iwase (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Recent progress on Lusternik-Schnirelmann category"
Daniel Juan Pineda (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "Algebraic K theory of group rings"
Seiichi Kamada (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Braids in dimension3 and 4 and quandles"
John Kulesza (George Mason Univ., USA)
     Title: "One technique for two dimension theory problems"
Yukio Matsumoto (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
     Title: "Monodromy calculus and the quandle of cords"
Jozef H. Pryzytycki (George Washington Univ., USA)
     Title: "Burnside obstruction to the 3-move conjecture"
Stevo Todorcevic (C. N. R. S. Univ. Paris VII, France)
     Title: "Some topological methods in Banach spaces"
Jan van Mill (Free Univ. Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
     Title: "On the character and $\pi$-weight of homogeneous compacta"
Shicheng Wang (Peking Univ., China)
     Title: "Solenoids in topology and in dynamics"

Special Sessions
(* to be invited)

[General Topology]
K. Bouhjar (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
     Title: "$n$-point sets"
D. Buhagiar (Univ. Malta, Malta)
     Title: "Supercomplete spaces and other forms of completeness"
J. Cao (Ehime Univ., Japan)
     Title: "An extension of the Banach-Stone theorem"
V. Chatyrko* (Linkoping Univ., Sweden)
     Title: "Around the equality ind X = Ind X"
P. Collins* (Oxford Univ., UK)
     Title: "The Topological Vaught Conjecture and Other Things"
D. Dikranjan* (Univ. Udine, Italy)
     Title: "Complemented group topologies"
S. Dolecki* (Burgundy Univ., France)
     Title: "Multisequences"
Z. M. Gao* (Shantou Univ., China)
     Title: "Metizability of spaces and weak g-functions"
G. Gruenhage* (Auburn Univ., USA)
     Title: "When is paracompactness witnessed by a a base?"
V. Gutev* (Univ. Natal, South Africa)
     Title: "Selections and Approximations in Finite-Dimensional Spaces"
M. Henriksen (Harvey Mudd Coll., USA)
     Title: "Products of spaces such that every prime z-ideal of its ring of all real-valued continuous functions is minimal or maximal"
D. Holgate (Univ. Stellenbosch, South Africa)
     Title: "Asymmetric Compactness"
M. Husek* (Charles Univ., Czech Rep.)
     Title: "C_p(X) and coreflective classes of locally convex spaces"
S. Iliadis (Univ. Patras, Greece)
     Title: "Containing spaces and factorizaing $\tau$-spactra"
H. Junnila* (Univ. Helsinki, Finland)
     Title: "On some classes of stratifiable spaces"
A. Kato (National Defence Academy, Japan)
     Title: "Findings of new topologies"
J. Kim (Ehime Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Iterated Starcompact Topological Spaces"
R. Kopperman* (CUNY, USA)
     Title: "Finite approximation of compact Hausdorff spaces"
M. Kovar (Technical Univ. Brno, Czech Republic)
     Title: "On iterated dualizations of topological structures"
R. Levy* (George Mason Univ., USA)
     Title: "Some observations on the total ring of quotients of $C(X)$"
T. Mizokami (Joetsu Univ. Education, Japan)
     Title: "On resolutions of generalized metric spaces" (with F. Suwada)
J. Nagata* (Osaka, Japan)
     Title: "Open problems left in my wake of research"
F. Obersnel (Univ. of Trieste, Italy)
     Title: "Some notes on weakly Whyburn spaces"
B. A. Pasynkov* (Moscow State Univ., Russia)
     Title: "On dimensionof topological products"
Z. Piotrowski (Youngstown State Univ., USA)
     Title: "Real-valued functions having `small' preimages of `small' sets"
E. Pol* (Warsaw Univ., Poland)
     Title: "On higher-dimensional hereditarily indecomposable continua"
G. Preuss (Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany)
     Title: "Convenient aspects of topology"
M. Rayburn (Univ. Manitoba, Canada)
     Title: "Lattices of Proximities"
D. Shakhmatov (Ehime Univ., Japan)
     Title: "A compact Hausdorff topology which is a T_1-complement of itself"
K. Tamano (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Paracompact $\sigma$-spaces, stratifiable spaces and $\mu$-spaces in function spaces"
H. Tanaka (Osaka Kyoiku Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Cech-scattered spaces"
Y. Tanaka (Tokyo Gakugei Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Certain covering-maps and k-networks" (with Z. Li)
V. Tkachuk (UAMI, Mexico)
     Title: "Whyburn spaces and pseudocompactness"
F. Javier Trigos Arrieta* (California State Univ., Bakersfield, USA)
     Title: "The Dual of a Dense Subgroup in the Compact-Open Topology"
J. Vaughan* (Univ. North Carolina, USA)
     Title: "Two step interation of almost disjoint families"
K. Yamada* (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
     Title: "The natural mappings $i_n$ and k-subspaces of free topological groups on metrizable spaces"
K. Yamazaki (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
     Title: "Weak P-spaces and product spaces"
I. Yoshioka (Okayama Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Spaces having point-countable closed covers"

[Geometric Topology]
T. Adachi (Nagoya Inst. Technology, Japan)
     Title: "Kaehler magnetic flow for a product of complex space forms"
S. Antonyan (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "Orbit spaces of equivariant absolute extensors"
A. Bykov (UAP, Mexico)
     Title: "Cotelescopes and Derived Limits"
N. Chinen (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
     Title: "Circle maps having an infinite $\omega$-limit set which contains a periodic orbit have positive topological entropy"
J. Dydak* (Univ. Tennessee, USA)
     Title: "Extension dimension for paracompact spaces"
K. Eda* (Waseda Univ., Japan)
     Title: "fundamental group = Space"
T. Hosaka* (Utsunomiya Univ., Japan)
     Title: " Coxeter groups and their boundaries"
J. Keesling* (Univ. Frolida, USA)
     Title: "Adding Machines in the Quadratic Family of Functions"
D. Kolodziejczyk* (Warsaw Univ., Poland)
     Title: "Homotopy Dominations of Polyhedra"
S. Maeda (Shimane Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Geometry of ordinary helices in a complex projectiv space"
S. Mardesic* (Univ. Zagreb, Croatia)
     Title: "Products in shape theory. A resolution for the product of a compactum with a polyhedra"
T. Miyata (Kobe Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Approximate resolutions and Hausdorff dimension"
D. Repovs* (Univ. Ljubljana, Slovenia)
     Title: "Cellular resolutions of polyhedra and their applications in geometric topology"
F. R. Ruiz del Portal* (Univ. Complutenese, Spain)
     Title: "Fixed point index and the stable/unstable manifolds for local homeomorphisms of the plane"
O. Saeki* (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Fold maps on 4-manifolds"
J. M. R. Sanjurjo* (Univ. Complutenese, Spain)
     Title: "Conley index and unstable manifolds of isolated invariant sets"
T. Yagasaki (Kyoto Inst. Technology, Japan)
     Title: "Groups of PL, Lipschitz-homeomorphisms and Diffeomorphisms of noncomact 2-manifolds"

[Homotopy Theory]
J. Cisneros-Molina (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "Elements in algebraic K-theory given by hyperbolic manifolds"
M. Golasinski* (Nicholas Copernicus Univ., Poland)
     Title: "Homotopy types of spaces forms"
S. Han (Honam Univ., Korea)
     Title: "Digital homotopy Theory and its Applications"
Y. Kamiyama (Univ. Ryukyus, Japan)
     Title: "Generating varietes for the triple loop spaces of classical Lie groups"
D. Tamaki (Shinshu Univ., Japan)
     Title: "On higer order suspensions"

[Knot Theory]
L. Armas-Sanabria* (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "Incompressible surfaces in the exterior of closed pure 3-braids"
V. Blanloeil* (Louis Pasteur Univ., France)
     Title: "On concordance of non spherical knots"
H. Cabrera* (IPICYT, Mexico)
     Title: "Results on the classification of rational 3-tangles"
S. Fenley* (Florida State Univ., USA)
     Title: "Group actions and laminations"
J. Gomez-Larranaga* (CIMAT, Mexico)
     Title: "Seifert Unions and Spaces of Graphs in the 3-sphere"
F. Gonzalez-Acuna* (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "On Knots with Properties Q, Q* and Q**" with A. Ramirez
M. Ishiwata* (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Branched covers of tangles in three-balls" with J. H. Przytycki and A. Yasuhara
N. Kamada* (Osaka city Univ., Japan)
     Title: "On the Jones polynomials of virtual knots"
T. Kanenobu* (Osaka city Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Symmetric Unions and Virtural Arc Presentations of Ribbon 2-Knots"
A. Kawauchi* (Osaka city Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Topological imitation of a colored link"
R. Mishra* (IIT, India)
     Title: "An Estimate on the degrees of Polynomials Representing a p-Braided Knot"
Y. Mizuma* (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
     Title: "Conway polynomials of 2-bridge knots"
K. Morimoto* (Konan Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Tunnel number, 1-bridge genus and h-genus of knots"
J. Mostovoy* (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "Groups of knots and string links"
K. Motegi* (Nihon Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Gromov volumes of twisted knots"
Y. Nakanishi* (Kobe Univ., Japan)
     Title: "On delta link homotopy"
V. Nunez* (CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico)
     Title: "Universal links"
M. Oichi* (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
     Title: "A fundamental polyhedron for the figure-eight knot group"
E. Ramirez-Losada* (CIMAT, Mexico)
     Title: "Branch covering of $S^3$ and knots of volume zero"
J. Rodriguez-Viorato (CIMAT, Mexico)
     Title: "Universal pretzel knots"
H. Sato* (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
     Title: "The Jorgensen number of the Whitehead link"
S. Satoh* (Chiba Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Triple points of 2-dimensional braids"
A. Shima* (Tokai Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Triple points numbers and quandles"
M. Teragaito* (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Crosscap numbers of torus knots"
Y. Uchida* (Yamagata Univ., Japan)
     Title: "3-coloring for 3-braid knots and 3-bridge knots"
L. Valdes-Sanchez* (CIMAT, Mexico)
     Title: "Klein bottles in knot complements"

[Set-Theoretic Topology]
Z. Balogh* (Miami Univ., USA)
     Title: "Jig-sawed bases and metrization"
T. Bartoszynski* (Boise Univ., USA)
     Title: "Borel Conjecture"
A. Blaszczyk (Silesian Univ., Poland)
     Title: "Boolean algebras and topologies over the set of finite sequences"
D. Burke* (Miami Univ., USA)
     Title: "Separate Continuity and weak-Namioka pairs"
A. Dow* (Univ. North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
     Title: "On compact sequential spaces"
S. Garcia-Ferreira (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "On topological games defined by ultrafilters"
M. Mizoguchi (Toyama, Japan)
     Title: "Study on Arhangel'skii Property"
P. Nyikos* (Univ. South Carolina, USA)
     Title: "The Classic Problems -- 25 years later"
M. Sanchis* (Univ. Jaume I, Spain)
     Title: "Bowen's entropy from a uniform point of view"
F. D. Tall* (Univ. Toronto, Canada)
     Title: "Locally compact perfectly normal spaces may all be paracomact"
A. Tamariz Mascarua* (UNAM, Mexico)
     Title: "Ultrafilters, special functions and pseudocompactness"
G. Tironi (Italy)
     Title: "No hedgehog in the product?" with P. Simon
A. H. Tomita* (Univ. Sau Paublo, Brasil)
     Title: "On van Douwen's question: Can countably compact groups have size of countable cofinality?"
S. Watson* (York Univ., Canada)
     Title: "Images of Eberlein Compacta-An Application of Finite Hulls and Pairwise Topology"


[Set Theory]
C. Banrey (Kobe Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Ultrafilters on $\omega$"
J. Brendle (Kobe Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Iterated forcing and cardinal invariants related to measure and category"
M. Kada (Kitami Inst. Tech., Japan)
     Title: "Hechler's theorem for meager or null ideal"
J. Kraszewski (Univ. of Wroclaw, Poland)
     Title: "Properties of ideals on generalized Cantor spaces"
F.E.J. Linton (Wesleyan Univ., USA)
     Title: "On Sets and Classes: Heightening the Contrast"
M. Shioya (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
     Title: "Stationary reflection and precipitous club filter"
S. Yatabe (Kobe Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Forcing indestructibility of MAD families"
T. Yorioka (Kobe Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Forcings with the countable chain condition and the covering number of the Marczewski ideal"

[Applications]
V. Boltianski (CIMAT, Mexico)
     Title: "Application of Topology in Optimization theory"
H. Tsuiki* (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Representing Topological Spaces as Bottomed Sequences"
M. Yasugi* (Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Japan)
     Title: "Computability problems of some discontinuous functions and the uniform space "