INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ON VALUATION THEORY
Thanks
We would like to thank our sponsors:
the Fields Institute
(Toronto) for their very generous support
and for offering to publish the proceedings of our conference,
the Centre de Recherches
Mathematiques (Montreal) and
the Pacific Institute
for the Mathematical Sciences (Vancouver) for their
generous support,
the President of the
University of Saskatchewan and
the Dean of the College of Arts
and Science for sponsoring our banquet,
once again the President
of the University of Saskatchewan and
the Vice
President (Research) of the University of Saskatchewan
for throwing in more money at the last moment so that we were able to
support more participants who otherwise wouldn't have been able to come,
the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics for balancing our budget,
taking over the costs for mail, phone, fax, copies etc., providing
offices and computer guest accounts.
The public lecture given by Paulo Ribenboim and his visit were
generously supported by a Special Lectureship from the
Visiting Lecturers' Fund of the University of
Saskatchewan.
The work on our conference proceedings will be supported by the
Publications Fund of the University of
Saskatchewan.
We would also like to thank everybody who has supported us,
and in particular:
- the speakers of the conference and workshop
for making them an interesting and exciting event,
- the participants of the conference and workshop
for their interest and energy, supporting a lively meeting for more than
two and a half weeks,
- our Scientific Committee,
- our colleagues at the
Department of
Mathematics and Statistics for various support & sympathy,
- our department secretaries
Cheryl,
Charlotte and
Karen,
- our student helpers Nikki Scheirer and Lissa
Ogieglo,
- Lynn Guina and the staff of the
Conference and Catering Services,
- the
Catering Service for delicious lunches and a wonderful
banquet,
-
Richard
Kondra for computer and programming support,
-
Keith
Taylor for scanning and backgrounds,
- Claude
Laflamme and
Peter
Roquette for good advice,
-
Steve
Watson, Elliott Pearl and the
Topology Atlas
for the very helpful automated
Mathematical
Conference Abstracts system and all other support,
- Erin Bayne, Lester Young and Gord Holtslander from the
Prairie University Biological Symposium'99 Organizing Committee
for organizational hints, web registration form and sample letter,
- Earl Fogel and Kevin Lowey for advice on web
registration forms,
- the College of Arts
and Science and the Department of
Computer Science for letting us use their computer labs,
- the Division
of Audio Visual Services for technical support,
- Don Gorsalitz and Andrea Looby at Ogle Hall,
-
Louis' for a
great evening on their outdoor terrace,
- Marc Bru and the staff of the
Broadway Theatre for
the special screening of Saskatchewan made films,
- the U of S
Students' Union for the Optelec reading machine,
- Campus Recreation for soccer field and soccer
ball,
- and all other supporters who are not
explicitly mentioned in this list.
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Last update: September 27, 1999