This
program will include three weeks of short courses intended primarily
for graduate students and postdocs, with participatory seminars
as well, followed by a week-long meeting which would in part be
a celebration of the 75th birthday of Marc
Rieffel of the University of California, Berkeley, who has
been one of the most influential mathematicians in the world in
the area of noncommutative geometry and quantum groups.
Outline of Scientific Activities
Weeks from June 3-21, will
be used for short courses on specific topics, along with accompanying
seminars in the same area. There will be two short courses each
week.
| Daily Schedule: |
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9:30-10:30 Morning short course
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Seminar Session |
2:00-3:00 Afternoon short course
3:00-3:30 Tea Break
3:30-4:30 Seminar Session |
June 3-7 (organized by Hanfeng
Li and Ian Putnam)
will be devoted to the interaction between noncommutative geometry
and dynamical systems,
Location: Stewart Library, Fields Institute
| Speakers: |
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David Kerr
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Entropy, dynamics, and operator algebras |
Thierry Giordano
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Topological orbit equivalence and full groups |
June 10-14
(organized by Piotr M. Hajac)
will be devoted to quantum groups and Hopf cyclic homology
Location: Bahen Building, Room 1190
(map)
| Speakers: |
| Alfons Van Daele |
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Bahram Rangipour
Hopf-Cyclic Homology: How and Why |
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Lecture 1: Motivation and preliminaries
Lecture 2: Construction and examples
Lecture 3: Connes-Moscovici type Hopf algebras
Lecture 4: Computational methods
Lecture 5: Characteristic maps and cup products |
June 17-21
(organized by Jonathan Rosenberg) would be devoted to connections
between noncommutative geometry and index theory, geometry, and
mathematical physics.
Location: Bahen Building, Room 1170 (map)
| Speakers: |
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Nigel Higson
Noncommutative geometry and representation theory |
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Paul Baum
Lecture 1 on Atiyah-Singer Revisited
Lecture 2 on What is K-homology?
Lecture 3 on Beyond Ellipticity (Index theory for non-elliptic
Fredholm differential operators)
Lecture 4 on The Riemann-Roch theorem |
June 24-28, 2013 Conference on
Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Groups
Location: Bahen Building, Room 1240
(map)
The last week will be devoted to a capstone conference. The conference
would run Monday through Friday with the following approximate daily
schedule:
9:10-10:00 Lecture 1
10:10-11:00 Lecture 2
11:30-12:20 Lecture 3
2:00-2:50 Lecture 4
3:00-3:30 Tea Break
3:30-5:45 Seminar Session
The afternoon seminar session will be devoted each day to a different
topic or two different topics running in parallel, chosen from
the following list:
- C*-algebras; actions of quantum groups; geometry of spectral
triples; Hopf-cyclic cohomology;
- noncommutative geometry applied to physics;
- noncommutative geometry applied to number theory;
- dynamical systems and their interaction with noncommutative
geometry; groupoids and crossed products;
and quantization.
Each seminar would be organized in a way to permit significant
participation by students and recent Ph.D.s.
Program Visitors
All scientific events are open to the mathematical sciences community.
Visitors who are interested in funding are requested to
apply by filling out the application
form . Additional support is available (pending NSF funding)
to support junior US visitors to this program.
Fields scientific programs are devoted to research in the mathematical
sciences, and enhanced graduate and post-doctoral training opportunities.
Part of the mandate of the Institute is to broaden and enlarge
the community, and to encourage the participation of women and
members of visible minority groups in our scientific programs.
For additional information contact thematic@fields.utoronto.ca
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