The organizers are very grateful to all participants for coming, despite financial or other problems, and contributing to the event. Our special thanks go to people whose help in organizing and running the school/conference was particularly crucial. These are: P.F.Baum, who during 4 days delivered 8.5 hours of very enjoyable lectures; A.Connes, who came despite his extremely dense schedule and gave 2 hours of breath-taking lectures; D.Didt, who prepared our on-line application form, N.Higson, who helped so much in preparing the Baum-Connes session and in other organizational matters; S.Majid, who stimulated zilions of discussions, A.Masuoka, who arranged the participation of the Japanese group, H.Moscovici, who agreed on the spot to take up an additional lecture and who together with P.F.Baum formed an untiring team which delivered the total of 14.5 hours of lectures; R.Nest, who agreed, on a very short notice, to give an additional lecture and helped us with organizational details; and A.Van Daele, who masterminded the locally compact quantum group session. Finally, we thank all school lecturers for their enormous care and effort in preparing the requested expository lectures, and all conference speakers for their state-of-the-art contributions. We are also grateful to the graduate students D.Hobst, A.Przybyszewska, P.M.Soltan and A.Zatorska-Goldstein for taking the lecture notes of the school lectures.