Aims: To seminate and survey some of the recent developments on value distribution theory and its applications to functional or differential equations, unicity and factorization of meromorphic functions or mappings,complex dynamics, as well as results relating to number theory.

The invited main speakers and titles:
Grigor Barsegian (Institute of Mathematics, Armenian Academy of Sciences, Armenia),
Walter Bergweiler (Kiel University, Germany), Zeros of derivatives of real entire functions,
D. C. Chang (Georgetown University, USA),
George Csordas (University of Hawaii, USA), Linear operator and zeros of Riemann-zeta function,
Robert Conte (CEA Saclay, France), Exact solutions of algebraic differential equations,
Alain Escassut (Universite de Clermont-Ferrand II, France), About the Ultrametric Corona Problem,
Ilpo Laine (University of Joensuu, Finland), Complex difference equations and the Clunie lemma,
J. K. Langley (University of Nottingham, England),
Bao-Qin Li (Florida International University, USA),Interpolation for holomorphic functions in pseudoconconvex open sets of C^n,
S. Mori (Yamagata University, Japan), Topics on meromorphic mappings and deficiencies,
Anand Prakash Singh (University of Jammu, India), Spiraling Baker Domains,
Linda Sons (Northern Illinois University, USA), Value Distribution for Gap Power Series,
Pit-Mann Wong (University of Notre, USA),
Z. Ye (Northern Illinois University, USA), Estimates of the proximate function of differential polynomials.

Sponsors:
Shandong University
Nanjing University
The University of Hong Kong
The University of Science and Technology of China

Organizing Committee:
 Peichu Hu (Chair), Shandong University
 Ping Li, The University of Science and Technology of China
 Liangwen Liao, Nanjing University
 Tuen Wai Ng, The University of Hong Kong
 Jianhua Zheng, Tsinghua University

Registration fee: 100$(including eating and payment of meeting rooms), which can be paid at the registration desk.

Abstracts:
Abstracts of talks of length not exceeding one page should be sent as files to Prof. Liangwen Liao:maliao@nju.edu.cn
The deadline for abstract submission is June 1, 2007.

Proceedings: The manuscripts will be refereed and published in “Analysis in theory and applications”.

Workshop building: Academic Center of Shandong University is located on a beach near Shandong University(Weihai Branch). You may swim there.

Accommodation: About 50$(per day, double room).

Transportation: Please arrive Weihai for this workshop shortly before or on 23th, July 2007 directly! You might come to Weihai by train or airplane! Should you come here by airplane, we sincerely suggest you take the flight arriving in Yantai Laishan Airport(YNT) and then come to Weihai by bus, since only flights from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are available to Weihai directly!

Remark: For more information about Prof. C.C. Yang, please see the website: www.math.ust.hk/~mayang