Positive: Rendl Terlaky Tuncel Vannelli Wolkowicz Kruk Serge Kruk Ye Yinyu Ye (requests $500 airfare - now a plenary speaker!) Pardalos Panos (requests $400 airfare) Jarre Florian (requests $300 airfare - no travel grant from Houston) Goffin Jean-Louis (most likely yes) Borchers Brian (wants help with expenses) Boyd Stephen (might need support - not 100% sure about coming -wants to give talk) Zhang Shuzhong and submitted a talk Burer Sam (wants to give a talk) Yildirim E. Alper wants $500 airfare Lee Jon (would like local expenses - willing to talk) Greenberg Harvey J.Harvey Greenberg Borwein Jonathan Toint Ph. L. Freund Robert Pinar Mustafa ( travel 1,000 USD? - talk?) Boyd Stephen (wants to give a talk - wants support) Anjos Miguel (wants to give a talk) Krishnan Kartik (wants to give a talk - same title as at opt seminar) Pena Javier (wants to give a talk) Nayakkankuppam Madhu (wants to give a talk - needs support $300US) Sotirov Renata Freund Roland (talk and wants support for local expenses) Schurr Simon student of O'leary and Tits wants support Monteiro Renato ( wants to give a talk Zhaosong Lu and Jerome O'Neal two students of MOnteiro Pasechnik Dima (talk? - Etienne - $$) Pataki Gabor (talk? ) Peng Jiming (with 3-4 students) Pinter Janos jdpinter@hfx.eastlink.ca support and talk Illes Tibor support and talk $1,100 Cdn needs official letter Johnson Charlie (talk) Renegar Jim (talk) Tseng paul (talk) Toh Kim Chuan (talk) Xia Yu talk? Tutuncu Reha grad stdnt UC berkeley Math dept. wants support Fukuda Mitu (working with Overton) Wang Ming-yan wants support Phillip Gill Kurt Anstreicher Hector Ramirez Cabrera wants support student - working with Bonnans Negative: Benny Chor Richard Brualdi Madhu Sudan (MIT Lab. for Computer Science) Bruce Hendrickson John C. Nash Mike Overton (most probably NO) Zhengji Zhao (working with Overton - NO due to visa status) Olvi Mangasarian Mike Powell Martin Skutella Venkataramanan Balakrishnan Margaret Wright Endre Boros Alan George Marielba Rojas Marcel Mongeau Diane O'Leary - no but yet for student Wu Li, Ph.D. Multidisciplinary Optimization Branch NASA Langley Research Center Vandenberghe, Lieven Gianni Di Pillo Anders Forsgren Monique Laurent natalia Alexandrov Robert Weismantel Faybusovich leonid.faybusovich.1@nd.edu (changed to no) Steve Wright