PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM: (plain text format) Monday July 5 | 9.00- 9.30 | Opening: Vera T. S\'os, Aryeh Dvoretzky, L\'aszl\'o Lov\'asz | 9.30-10.30 | B\'ela Bollob\'as: From Prodigy to grand old man, the mathematical journey of Paul Erd\H{o}s | 11.00-12.00 | Noga Alon: \quad Colorful aspects of the probabilistic method | 2.00-2.30 | Wirsing | Szemer\'edi | Nesetril | Hayman | Lubotzky | | 2.40-3.10 | Pintz | Reed | Faudree | Shektman | P\'alfy | | 3.20-3.50 | Heath-Brown| Mader | Schelp | Bojanov | Cameron | | 4.20-4.50 | Maier | Katona | Pr\"omel | Erd\'elyi | Pyber | | 5.00-5.30 | Stewart | Gy\H{o}ri | Kohayakawa| Szabados | Shalev | | 5.40-6.10 | Hildebrand | Brown | Sharir | Mills | | | Tuesday July 6 | 9.00-10.00 | Peter Borwein: Paul Erd\H{o}s and his work on polynomials | 10.30-11.30 | Imre Z. Ruzsa: Erd\H{o}s on addition of sequences | 2.00-2.30 | Margulis | Kostochka | Kleitman | Preiss | Lov\'asz | | 2.40-3.10 | Katznelson | Gy\'arf\'as | Sz\'ekely | Laczkovich | Elekes | | 3.20-3.50 | Schinzel | Bondy | Voss | Totik | Chazelle | | 4.20-4.50 | Gy\H{o}ry | Toft | Tuza | Maharam Stone| B\'ar\'any | | 5.00-5.30 | Tichy | Khachatrian | Sudakov | Taylor | Fejes T\'oth | Miniworkshop on Digital Expansion: Monday, Tuesday, organized by R. Tichy, see the detailed program Wednesday July 7 | 9.00-10.00 | Spencer: Random Graphs, Sets and Tournaments | 10.30-11.30 | Doron Lubinsky: Erd\H{o}s on interpolation and orthogonal polynomials | 12.00-13.00 | Peter D.T.A. Elliott: ``Cast thy bread upon the waters...", a personal view \dots Afternoon: Excursion Thursday July 8 | 9.00-10.00 | Ron L. Graham: Paul Erd\H{o}s and Ramsey theory | 10.30-11.30 | Mikl\'os Simonovits: Extremal Graph Theory | 12.00-13.00 | Andr\'as Hajnal: Paul Erd\H{o}s' set theory | 2.30-3.00 | Bergelson | Karonski | Sauer | Foreman | Welzl | | 3.10-3.40 | F\"urstenberg | Luczak | Trotter | Bartoszynski| Pach | | 3.50-4.20 | Freiman | H\"aggkvist | Brightwell | M. E. Rudin | Tardos | | 4.50-5.20 | Gowers | Molloy | Rosenstiehl | Kanamori | Makai | | 5.30-6.00 | Tetali | Ruci\'nski | | Laver | | Friday July 9 | 9.00-10.00 | Carl Pomerance: Paul Erd\H{o}s and special arithmetic functions | 10.30-11.30 | P\'eter Komj\'ath: Infinite combinatorics | 2.00-2.30 | Kubilius | Frankl | Linial | R\'ev\'esz | Kahane | | 2.40-3.10 | Manstavicius | F\"uredi | Pudl\'ak | Lawler | Korevaar | | 3.20-3.50 | Ivic | Lefmann | Tur\'an | Solomyak | Mastroianni | | 4.20-4.50 | K\'atai | Aharoni | Kalai | Philipp | V\'ertesi | | 5.00-5.30 | Deshouillers | Holzman | Valtr | B. T\'oth | Elbert | Saturday July 10 | 9.00- 9.30 | Nicolas | Halberstam | Thomason | Shelah | | | 9.40-10.10 | Nathanson | Sch\"onheim | Griggs | Jech | | | 10.20-10.50 | Alladi | Tijdeman | K\"orner | Larson | | | 11.20-11.50 | Mauduit | Selfridge | Simonyi | Todorcevic | | | 12.00-12.30 | Komornik | Ahlswede | Enomoto | Mitchell | | | 12.45-13.30 | George Szekeres: An old comrade looks back (Esther's problem) Closing | \multispan{11}During the plenary sessions there will be special contributions from Yousef Alavi, Alan Baker, \'Akos Cs\'asz\'ar, Richard K. Guy, Arthur H. Stone