AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:50

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday October 24, 1998, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, I
Room 262, Willard Building
Organizers:
Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Some minimization problems for the free analogue of the Fisher information .
  Alexandru M. Nica*, University of Waterloo
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, U.C.L.A.
  Roland Speicher, Universitat Heidelberg
  (937-00-63)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Operator-Valued semicircular systems.
  Dimitri Y Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
  (937-46-38)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Subfactors and planar algebras of small dimension.
  Dietmar Bisch*, University of California at Santa Barbara
  (937-46-56)

Saturday October 24, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, II
Room 262, Willard Building
Organizers:
Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Joint Special Session talk by John Roe in Room 362.
- 3:30 p.m.
  Twist Positivity.
  Arthur Jaffe*, Harvard Univ.
  (937-81-67)
- 4:15 p.m.
  The eta invariant, relative cyclic cocycles and quasi-action of groups.
  Hitoshi Moriyoshi*, Keio University
  (937-58-96)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Homotopical algebra and cyclic cohomology.
  Masoud Khalkhali*, University of Western Ontario
  (937-18-73)
- 5:45 p.m.
  Analog Baum-Connes map and an index theorem for manifols with proper actions.
  Ronghui Ji*, IUPUI
  (937-58-97)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, III
Room 262, Willard Building
Organizers:
Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Characters of cycles and equivariant Chern character.
  Alexander Gorokhovsky*, Ohio State University
  (937-58-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  $S^1$ Equivariant Novikov Conjecture.
  John W Lott*, University of Michigan
  (937-58-51)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Hopf algebra cyclic cohomology and characteristic classes of foliations.
  Alain Connes, Coll\`ege de France, Paris
  Henri Moscovici*, Ohio State University
  (937-46-107)

Sunday October 25, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, IV
Room 262, Willard Building
Organizers:
Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Paul F. Baum, The Pennsylvania State University baum@math.psu.edu
Adrian Ocneanu, The Pennsylvania State University adrian@math.psu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The trace formula in Noncommutative Geometry and the Riemann Zeta function.
  Alain Connes*, I.H.E.S and Ecole Normale, Paris, France
  (937-47-124)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Two-dimensional groups and the Baum-Connes assembly map.
  Alain J Valette*, University of Neuchatel
  (937-46-52)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Hochschild and cyclic homology of certain dynamical systems arising in number theory.
  Eric Leichtnam*, Ecole Normale Superieure
  (937-46-129)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Generation properties in some group von Neumann algebras tensor B(H) .
  Florin G Radulescu*, University of Iowa
  (937-46-119)

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