Program of the Conference in Honor of Heydar Radjavi’s 70^th Birthday

Saturday, May 14

9.00 – 9.10	Opening of the conference
9.10 – 9.40	Aristides Katavolos	Bi-analytic operator algebras  and Euclidean families of projections
9.45 – 10.15	John Holbrook	Simultaneous Hessenberg forms
Coffee break
10.40 – 11.10	Eric Nordgren	Extreme points of stochastic operators
11.15 – 11.45	Victor Shulman	Around the Fuglede theorem
11.50 – 12.20	Leo Livshits	Playing with the bands in the 60's
Lunch break
14.30 – 15.30	Peter Rosenthal	A survey of Heydar Radjavi
Coffee break
15.50 – 16.20	Tom Laffey	Nearly commutative matrices
16.25 – 16.55	Vladimir Műller	Invariant subspaces for polynomially bounded operators
17.00 – 17.30	Peter Šemrl	Adjacency preserving maps on hermitean matrices
18.30	Reception in the Hotel Golf
Dinner at the Bled Castle

Sunday, May 15

9.00 – 9.30	Don Hadwin	Completely rank-nonincreasing linear maps
9.35 – 10.05	Leiba Rodman	Operators with numerical range in a halfplane
Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00	Ahmed Sourour	The semigroup generated by a unitary orbit
11.05 – 11.35	Matej Brešar	Commutativity preserving maps
11.40 – 12.10	Roy Meshulam	Rank and reflexivity of operator spaces
Lunch break
14.30 - 15.00	Jaroslav Zemanek	Between Newton and Hilbert
15.05 – 15.35	Charles Johnson	Factoring matrices in various ways
Coffee break
16.00 – 16.30	Abdellatif Bourhim	Cyclic inner functions in Bergman type spaces
16.35 – 17.05	Martin Mathieu	When are two C*-algebras Jordan isomorphic?