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This special volume of the New York Journal of Mathematics is dedicated to the memory of Bill Arveson. It arose as the serendipitous conjoining of two related efforts to celebrate Bill's life and his contributions to mathematics.
The first is an unabridged version of a tribute to Bill that was published in the Notices of the AMS, August 2015. The unabridged version was to have been published in that issue, but the editors requested that it be abbreviated considerably. We are very grateful to the American Mathematical Society for allowing us to publish the unabridged version here. We should mention that Frederic W. Schultz published his contribution to the unabridged version as Arveson's work on entanglement, Complex Anal. Oper. Theory 8 (2014), no. 7, 1507-1512.
The second source for this volume are articles based on the plenary talks given at the 2013 meeting of the Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium (GPOTS), held at Berkeley in honor of Bill. We are very grateful to those who were able to contribute, especially so since the idea for this volume arose after the meeting. We are very grateful to all those who have contributed and we are very appreciative of their patience.
This volume was supposed to have appeared in the Fall of 2016. The delay to now was due to circumstances beyond our control. We decided to leave the Notices article in the form it would have appeared here in 2016. But we acknowledge with sadness in this preface that three of the contributors, Ron Douglas, Dick Kadison, and Don Sarason, passed away in the intervening two years.
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Palle Jorgensen
Department of Mathematics
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
palle-jorgensen@uiowa.edu
Daniel Markiewicz
Department of Mathematics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O.B. 653, Be'er Sheva 8410501,Israel
danielm@math.bgu.ac.il
Paul S. Muhly
Department of Mathematics
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
paul-muhly@uiowa.edu
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