| Name | Dates | Area of interest | Confirmed? |
| Nikolai Vavilov (State University of Saint-Petersburg) | 1 January - 31 March 2008 | Algebra | Yes |
| Eduard Ortega (Odense) | 12-20 January 2008 | C*-Algebras | Yes |
| Laurent W Marcoux (Waterloo, Canada) | 1-6 May 2008 | C*-Algebras | Yes |
| Timur Oikhberg (UC Irvine) | 23-29 June 2008 | Operator Spaces | Yes |
| Pere Ara (Barcelona) | 19 September - 19 December 2008 | C*-Algebras | Yes |
| Lyudmyla Turovska (Göteborg) | 13-19 October 2008 | Operator Algebras & Harmonic Analysis | Yes |
| Eduard Ortega (Odense) | 19-25 October 2008 | C*-Algebras | Yes |
| Man-Duen Choi (Toronto) | 31 0ctober - 4 November 2008 | C*-Algebras | Yes |
