The Sixth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras

Month: May 2008

Date: May 5--14

Name: The Sixth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras

Location: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.


Description

The Sixth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras is a spring school and international conference. Several mini-courses on a variety of topics from noncommutative geometry, operator algebras and related areas will be given by leading experts.

Topic

The topic of this year's conference/school is KK-Theory of Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry. Students and postdocs are especially encouraged to attend. Mini-courses by: Alain Connes, Nigel Higson, Ralf Meyer, Mikael Rordam, Georges Skandalis and other. Organizers; Dietmar Bisch, Alain Connes (Director of the Sixth Annual Spring Institute), Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov and Guoliang Yu (all at Vanderbilt University).

Information

dietmar.bisch@vanderbilt.edu; http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~ncgoa08/.