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25th Nordic and 1st British-Nordic congress of Mathematicians

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University of Oslo
8th - 11th June 2009

Scientific committee

Norway:	Ola Bratteli (Chair)
	Helge Holden
Sweden:	Anders Björner
Denmark:	Philip Solovej
Finland:	Eero Saksman
Iceland:	Ragnar Sigurdsson
LMS:	Ulrike Tillmann
	Richard Thomas
EMS:	Jim Howie

There will be approximately 9-11 main speakers at the conference giving approximately 1 hour plenary talks in the morning sessions and then there will be special sessions in the afternoon. The main speakers will be announced as they are clear, and the scientific committee aims at announcing all of them prior to 2 February 2008. The scientific committee will decide on the program of special sessions with organizers and announce the result by 1 March 2008. As part of the decision procedure the committee is also soliciting independent suggestions for special sessions, see below. The session organizers (independent or not) is given a deadline of October 4 2008 to send the final definite program of the session, following the outline below.

Request for Proposals of Spesial Sessions

The Scientfic committee solicits proposals for Special Sessions for this meeting. Each proposal must include the full name, e-mail address, and institution of the person (or persons) who propose the session, and in case of several persons identify the one who will serve as the contact person for all communications about the session; the title and a brief description of the proposed session; and a sample list of speakers who the proposing organizer(s) plan to invite (please note that it is not necessary to have confirmed commitments from these speakers). The session organizers as well as the speakers in the session will in general not receive any financial support from the conference and will have to pay the conference fee.

Each Special Session should have 3 - 8 speakers (we are flexible). In order to allow the maximum movement between sessions for all participants, Special Session speakers will be scheduled for either a 20-minute talk or a 40-minute talk according to the talk schedule

14:30 - 15:10

15:20 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break

16:30 - 17:10

17:20 - 17:40 (This session and the next may be replaced by one session 17:20 - 18:00)

17:45 - 18:05

18:10 - 18:30 (This session and the next may be replaced by one session 18:10 - 18:50)

18:35 - 18:55

19:00 - 19:20

Any combination of 20-minute and 40-minute talks is allowed, provided the schedule conforms to talks beginning 14:30, 15:20, 16:30, 17:20, 18:10 etc. Preferably the session should end between 17:10 and 18:05 (Please allow space for latecomers). If sufficient interest, special sessions may run over several days. The session organizer(s) may be among the speakers in the session.

Independent proposals of Special Sessions must be received by the deadline January 1, 2008, and submitted by e-mail to the chairman of the scientific committee, Ola Bratteli (bratteli@math.uio.no) with a cc to Ragnar Edgren Pettersen ragnarep@math.uio.no. Late proposals will not be considered.

Please be sure to submit as detailed a proposal as possible for review by the Scientific Committee. The seating capacity of the seven lecture rooms are 34, 60, 60, 76, 186, 196 and 456 respectively, so if you have an inkling about the interest of the special session, then give us a hint (We estimate the total number of participants in the conference to be 300). All potential session organizers will be notified of acceptance or rejection no later than March 1, 2008, and the approved organizers will later be asked to submit a final definite plan for the session by October 4 2008.

For further information please contact R. Pettersen, Dep. of Math., Boks 1053 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway. e-mail:ragnarep@math.uio.no