Provisional timetable:

Friday 22 April

• Coffee from 10.00
• 10.30 to 11.20 Alexander Helemskii (Moscow)
  "Some questions of quantum functional analysis approached without matrices"
• 11.35 to 12.20 Zinaida Lykova (Newcastle)
  "Cohomology of strict inductive limits of Frechet algebras"
• Lunch break
• 2.00 to 2.35 Hung Le Pham (Leeds)
  "Uniqueness of norm for Banach algebras with finite-dimensional radical"
• 2.45 to 3.20 Y.Choi (Newcastle)
  "Normalization of cochains, and applications to Clifford semigroup algebras"
• 3.40 to 4.25 A. Blanco (Belfast)
  "Amenability of the algebra of compact operators"
• 4.40 to 5.30 Charles Read (Leeds)
  "Normed algebras without non-trivial closed subalgebras"
• Dinner from 6.30

Saturday 23 April

• 9.00 to 9.50 F. Ghahramani (Winnipeg)
  "Involutions on the second duals of group algebras"
• 10.00 to 10.35 A. Pirkovskii (Leeds and Moscow)
  "Non-amenable Frechet algebras whose Hochschild homology vanishes in positive degree"
• Coffee break
• 11.00 to 11.40 Maxim E. Polyakov (Leeds and Moscow)
  "Multinorms and their applications to Banach algebras"
• 11.45 to 12.30 N. J. Laustsen (Lancaster)
  "Involutions on Banach algebras of operators on Banach spaces"