The University of Leeds will host a conference, "Ring Theory: recent progress and applications", in honor of Professors J. C. McConnell and J. C. Robson, Friday and Saturday May 5-6, 2006. A preliminary speaker list includes

• I. G. Gordon (Glasgow) Representations of rational Cherednik algebras
• L. Levy (Wisconsin) Modules over HNP rings
• R. Rouquier (Leeds) Calabi-Yau algebras
• L. W. Small (San Diego) Noetherian Rings: Before and After McConnell and Robson
• S. P. Smith (Seattle) Stacks and noncommutative algebraic geometry
• A. Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh) Some results on rings with Gelfand-Kirillov dimension less than three
• J. T. Stafford (Michigan) Noncommutative surfaces

For more information, see the conference webpage.