I Benjamini(The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) R I Grigorchuk(Steklov Math. Inst., Russia) and (Texas A&M Univ., USA) J Howie(Heriot-Watt Univ., UK) M Kassabov(Cornell University, University of Southampton, UK) Keith A. Kearnes(University of Colorado, USA) O Kharlampovich(McGill Univ., Canada) A de Luca(Univ. di Napoli "Federico II", Italy) S W Margolis(Bar Ilan University, Israel) R McKenzie(Vanderbilt Univ., USA) J Meakin(University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) A Yu Ol'shanskii(Vanderbilt Univ., USA) and (Moscow State Univ., Russia) D Perrin(Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France) J E Pin(CNRS/Université Paris VII, France) M Putcha(North Carolina State Univ., USA) N Reilly(Simon Fraser Univ., Canada) H Schenck(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) A Shalev(The Hebrew University, Israel) B Steinberg(City College of New York, USA) M Volkov(Ural State University, Russia) E Zelmanov(Univ. of California, San Diego, USA)