During March 6-12, 2003 the University of Florida will host Finite Groups 2003, an international conference on Finite Group Theory and Related Topics, in honor of Professor John G. Thompson's 70th year. The following have accepted invitations to speak: M. Aschbacher, M. Broué, R. Dipper, W. Feit, G. Glauberman, R. Gow, R. Guralnick, R. Lyons, G. Robinson, G. Seitz, L. L Scott, S. Smith and R. Solomon.

There will also be many shorter talks by other participants.

Here is a preliminary schedule (updated daily).

There will be a conference reception and banquet at the Sheraton Hotel on the evening of Saturday, 8th March, for which there will be a charge of $30. Formal attire is not required.

The conference registration fee is $15 (No charge for students).

Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Please contact P. Tiep tiep@math.ufl.edu giving the names of your university and your advisor.

Participants are invited to submit papers for the proceedings, which de Gruyter has undertaken to publish. Articles submitted will go through the usual refereeing process and it is a condition of the publisher that all papers have not been previously published and shall not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. All papers should be in English and contain full proofs of any new results presented. Research announcements will not be accepted.

The deadline for submission of articles is April 30, 2003. We also request speakers to submit a title and abstract of their talks by February 10th, 2003 so that we can circulate the conference program in advance.

Andikfar Hossein (UI Chicago)
Aschbacher Michael (CalTech)
Bachoc C. (Bordeaux)
Bereczky Aron (Sultan Qaboos)
Boltje Robert (Santa Cruz)
Broué Michel (Inst. H. Poincaré)
Brozovic Douglas (N. Texas)
Chan W. K. (Wesleyan)
Chandler David (Delaware)
Charnes Chris (Wollonggong)
Chigira Naoki (Muroran)
Chillag D. (Technion)
Cunningham Sarah (Santa Cruz)
Dempwolff U. (Kaiserslautern)
Detomi Eloisa (Padova)
Dipper Richard (Stuttgart)
Ebert G. (Delaware)
Ellers H. (N. Illinois)
Espina Jacquie (Santa Cruz) 
Feit Walter (Yale)
Franchi Clara (Brescia)
Fried M. (Irvine)
Frohardt D. (Wayne State)
Geck M. (Lyon)
Glasby S. (Central Washington)
Glauberman George (Chicago)
Glesser Adam (Santa Cruz)
Gluck David (Wayne State)
Gow Roderick (Dublin)
Gramlich R. (Darmstadt)
Guralnick Robert M. (Southern Cal.)
Hering Ch. (Tuebingen)
Herman A. (Regina)
Herzog M. (Tel-Aviv)
Hiss G. (Aachen)
Ho Chat Yin (Florida)
Hoffman Corneliu (Bowling Green)
Hulpke Alexander (Colorado State)
Jaikin Andrei (Madrid)
Jones Lenny (Shipensburg)
Kallaher M. (Washington State)
Keller Thomas (S. Texas)
Kessar Radha (Ohio State)
Kleshchev Alexander S. (Oregon)
Klopsch Ben (Duesseldorf)
Korchagina Inna (Rutgers)
Lataille Jeffrey (Valdosta)
Lescot Paul (Picardie)
Lewis M. (Kent State)
Luebeck Frank (Aachen)
Lux Klaus (Arizona)
Lyons Richard (Rutgers)
Ma Yujie (U. Mass)
Magaard K.(Wayne State)
Mainardis Mario (Udine)
Malle G. (Kassel)
McNeilly D. (Alberta)
Moreto A. (Bilbao)
Morigi Marta (Bologna)
Navarro Gabriel (Valencia)
Nakajima Haruhisa (Sakado)
Nath Rishi (UI Chicago)
Ohmori Z. (Iwamizawa)
Onofrei Silvia (Kansas State)
Phillips Aaron (Oregon)
Pillen Cornelius (S. Alabama)
Prince Alan (Heriot-Watt)
Racovitan M. (N. Illinois)
Ray Urmie (Reims)
Riley David (W. Ontario)
Robinson Geoffrey R. (Birmingham)
Ronan M. (UI Chicago)
Abdul Sami (Imperial, London)
Sangroniz J. (Bilbao)
Sastry N.S. Narasimha (ISI Bangalore)
Sawabe Masato (Naruto)
Scoppola C. (Aquila)
Scott Jr Leonard L (Virginia)
Seitz G. M. (Oregon)
Sekiguchi Katsusuke (Kokushikan)
Shareshian J. W. (Washington U.)
Shpectorov Sergey (Bowling Green)
Sin Peter (Florida)
Smith Stephen D. (UI Chicago)
Solomon Ronald M. (Ohio State)
Srinivasan Bhama (UI Chicago)
Stroth Kristin (Goettingen)
Thompson John G. (Florida)
Tiep Pham Huu (Florida)
Turull Alexandre (Florida)
Uno Katsuhiro (Osaka)
Walter John (UI Urbana)
Wilson Larry (Florida)
Wolf Tom (Ohio U)
Zalesskii A. E. (East Anglia)
Zhang J. P. (Peking)