THEMATIC PROGRAMS

December  3, 2024

Thematic Program on Operator Algebras
July-December, 2007

Organizing Committee:
George Elliott (chairman, Toronto)
Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt)
Joachim Cuntz (Münster)
Kenneth Davidson (Waterloo)
Thierry Giordano (Ottawa)
Roland Speicher (Queen’s)

Program supported by:
Special Operator Algebra Fund
Supported by
Professor George Elliott

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Scientific Advisors:

Alain Connes (Collège de France)
Uffe Haagerup (Odense)
Vaughan F. R. Jones (Berkeley)

Eberhard Kirchberg (Humboldt)
N. Christopher Phillips (Oregon)
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (Berkeley)

Distinguished Lecture Series

November 6,7 & 8, 2007- 3:30 P.M.
Uffe Haagerup (Odense)
Free probability and the invariant subspace problem for von Neumann algebras

May 28, 29,30- 2008
Alain Connes (Collège de France, IHES & Vanderbilt University)

Operator Algebra Seminars

Tuesdays and Thursdays at Fields

Workshops

July 16 - 20, 2007
Workshop on Noncommutative Dynamics and Applications
Fields Institute

William Arveson (Berkeley)
B.V. Rajarama Bhat (Indian Statistical Institute)
Remus Floricel (Regina)

Robert Powers (Pennsylvania)
Joachim Zacharias (Nottingham)
September 17 - 21, 2007
Workshop on Free Probability, Random Matrices, and Planar Algebras
Fields Institute

Jamie Mingo (Queen’s)
Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt)

Roland Speicher (Queen’s)
Alexander Soshnikov (Davis)

October 29 - November 2, 2007
Workshop on von Neumann Algebras

Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt)
Jamie Mingo (Queen’s)
Narutaka Ozawa (Tokyo)

Sorin Popa (UCLA)
Dimitri Shlyakhtenko (UCLA)
Roland Speicher (Queen’s)

November 12- 16, 2007
Workshop on Structure of C*-Algebras
Fields Institute

Marius Dadarlat (Purdue)
Eberhard Kirchberg (Humboldt)
Huaxin Lin (Oregon)

Ian Putnam (Victoria)
Mikael Rørdam (Odense)
Andrew Toms (York)

December 11 - 15, 2007
Workshop on Operator Spaces and Quantum Groups
Fields Institute

Matthias Neufang (Carleton)
Marius Junge (Illinois)
Vern Paulsen (Houston)

Gilles Pisier (Paris, Texas A&M)
Zhong-Jin Ruan (Illinois)

Graduate Courses

Introduction to Operator Algebras
Man-Duen Choi (Toronto) and Ken Davidson (Waterloo)
Structure of C*-Algebras
George Elliott (Toronto), Chris Phillips (Oregon), and Mikael Rørdam (Odense)
Free Probability
Roland Speicher (Queen’s) and Jamie Mingo (Queen's)
Functional Analysis
(Jul. 3-Aug. 30, Tuesdays 10 a.m., Fields Library)
*To register, please contact Andrew Toms (atoms@mathstat.yorku.ca)


Affiliated Activities

2008

June 2 - 6, 2008
Session on Non-Commutative Geometry and K-Theory for Operator Algebras
at the Second Canada-France Mathematical Congress,
Montreal, Quebec
Organizers: Alain Connes (Collège de France) and George Elliott (Toronto),

May 27 - 31, 2008
Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry
Organizers: Masoud Khalkhali (Western), Matilde Marcolli (Max Planck Institute, Bonn), and Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt)

May 20 - 24, 2008
36th Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and Their Applications (COSy)
Organizers: Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), George Elliott (Toronto), Raphael Ponge (Toronto), and Andrew Toms (York)

May 16- 18, 2008
Fields Workshop around Connes Embedding Problem
University of Ottawa

January 27 - February 1, 2008
BIRS Workshop: C*-algebras Associated to Discrete and Dynamical Systems
Banff, Alberta
Organizers: Soren Eilers (Copenhagen), George Elliott (Toronto), Alex Kumjian (Reno), David Pask (Newcastle, Australia), Iain Raeburn (Newcastle, Australia), and Andrew Toms (York)

January 13 - 18, 2008
BIRS Workshop: Free Probability, Extensions, and Applications
Banff, Alberta
Organizers: Andu Nica (Waterloo), Roland Speicher (Queen's), Antonia Tulino (Sannio), and Dan Voiculescu (Berkeley)

2007

June 5 - 9, 2007
35th Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and Their Applications (COSy)
University of Guelph
Organizing Committee: John Holbrook (University of Guelph), and David Kribs (University of Guelph)

August 13 - 24, 2007
Ottawa Summer School in Operator Algebras
University of Ottawa
Organizer: Thierry Giordano

August 13 - 17, 2007
Dietmar Bisch (subfactors), Matthias Neufang (operator spaces), and Narutaka Ozawa (rigid factors);
August 20 - 24, 2007
Chris Phillips (classification of C*-algebras), Jean Renault (dynamical systems and C*-algebras), and Stefaan Vaes (quantum groups)


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