Professor Gilles I. Pisier  University of Paris VI and Texas A & M University

Wednesday, December 2, 1998, 4:30 p.m.
 Physics Building, Room 202
`The Halmos problem'

Thursday, December 3, 1998, 4:00 p.m.
 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, Room 328
`Similarity problems and lengths of operator algebras'