AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Saturday April 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, I
Room 111, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@bright.uoregon.edu
Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon phillips@bright.uoregon.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Applications of Voiculescu's Free Entropy
  Liming Ge*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (921-46-22)
- 9:30 a.m.
  An application of the free entropy: the primality of subfactors of finite index in the interpolated free group factors
  Marius B Stefan*, The University of Iowa
  (921-47-45)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Unbounded Fredholm modules and spectral flow
  John Phillips*, University of Victoria
  Alan Carey, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia
  (921-19-145)
- 10:30 a.m.
  2-Hilbert spaces and representation theory
  John C. Baez*, University of California, Riverside
  (921-43-50)

Saturday April 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, II
Room 111, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@bright.uoregon.edu
Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon phillips@bright.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Characteristic Square of a Factor and Cocycle Conjugacy of Group Actions
  Masamichi Takesaki*, UCLA
  (921-46-160)
- 3:30 p.m.
  New results in the theory of quantum dynamical semigroups
  William Arveson*, University of California, Berkeley
  (921-46-176)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalized solenoids and C*-algebras
  Valentin Deaconu*, University of Nevada, Reno
  (921-46-179)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Toeplitz algebras associated with endomorphims
  Mahmood Khoshkam*, University of Saskatchewan
  (921-46-28)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic Range for cocycles of groupoid C*-algebras
  Belisario A. Ventura*, California State University, San Bernardino
  (921-46-178)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 20, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, III
Room 111, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@bright.uoregon.edu
Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon phillips@bright.uoregon.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Subfactors and Partially Commuting Squares
  Peter T Akemann*, University of California, Berkeley
  (921-46-126)
- 8:30 a.m.
  $C^*$--algebra generated by orthogonal projections
  Nikolai Vasilevski*, Departamento de Matematicas, CINVESTAV del I.P.N., Mexico
  (921-46-18)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computing $K$-theory contingencies to stable relations
  Terry A Loring*, University of New Mexico
  Soren Eilers, University of Copenhagen
  (921-46-55)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hilbert modules with involution
  Nik Weaver*, UCLA/Washington U
  (921-46-35)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectral invariance of stabilizations of dense subalgebrasof C*-algebras
  Larry B. Schweitzer*,
  (921-46-177)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday April 20, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, IV
Room 111, Strand Agricultural Hall
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@bright.uoregon.edu
Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon phillips@bright.uoregon.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A non-commutative n-nomial formula
  Carla Emilia Farsi*, University of Colorado
  (921-46-96)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Rieffel's trace formula and theta functions
  Samuel G. Walters*, University of Northern British Columbia
  (921-46-79)
- 4:00 p.m.
  K-theory for translation algebras and its applications
  Guoliang Yu*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (921-19-34)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Kirillov Theory and Transformation Group C*Algebras
  Jeffrey S Fox*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (921-22-147)

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