Midwest Commutative Algebra and Geometry Meeting: A Conference in Honor of Joseph Lipman Organized by William Heinzer, Craig Huneke and Bernd Ulrich at Purdue University, West Lafayette May 17-21, 2004 The conference is in honor of Joseph Lipman on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and is meant to celebrate his ground-breaking contributions to both commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. The themes of the conference are at the interface of these two fields. They are loosely grouped around, but not restricted to, J. Lipman's research interests: resolution of singularities, singularity theory, Rees algebras and Briançon-Skoda theorems, duality theory and homological algebra. The conference continues the tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest, the most recent of which took place at the University of Kentucky in 2003. The meeting is supported by NSF, Purdue University and MSRI. The following colleagues have agreed to speak: Donu Arapura       Purdue University Luchezar Avramov       University of Nebraska Chunsheng Ban       Ohio State University at Mansfield Edward Bierstone       University of Toronto Ragnar Buchweitz       University of Toronto Antonio Campillo       U. de Valladolid, Spain Brian Conrad       University of Michigan Alberto Corso       University of Kentucky Steven Dale Cutkosky       University of Missouri Sankar Dutta       University of Illinois David Eisenbud       MSRI Hubert Flenner       U. Bochum, Germany Andrei Gabrielov       Purdue University Robin Hartshorne       University of California at Berkeley Herwig Hauser       U. Innsbruck, Austria Melvin Hochster       University of Michigan I-Chiau Huang       Academia Sinica, Taiwan Steven Kleiman       MIT Gennady Lyubeznik       University of Minnesota Juan Migliore       University of Notre Dame Uwe Nagel       University of Kentucky Claudia Polini       University of Notre Dame Paul Roberts       University of Utah Pramathanath Sastry       University of Toronto Bernard Teissier       U. Paris 7, France Wolmer Vasconcelos       Rutgers University Orlando Villamayor       U. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Jonathan Wahl       University of North Carolina Uli Walther       Purdue University Keiichi Watanabe       Nihon U., Japan Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk       Purdue University