AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:57

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 19, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Spaces and Their Applications, I
Room 165, Everitt Laboratory
Organizers:
Gilles Pisier, Texas A & M gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois-Urbana ruan@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Hilbert $C^{*}$-modules: A Useful Tool.
  Sze-Kai Tsui*, Oakland University
  (941-46-183)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Modules over Operator algebras.
  David P Blecher*, University of Houston
  (941-46-99)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Isometric dilations of non-commuting n-tuples and representations of the Cuntz-Toeplitz algebra.
  Kenneth R. Davidson*, University of Waterloo
  David W. Kribs, University of Waterloo
  Miron Shpigel, University of Waterloo
  (941-47-210)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantized Commutant Lifting and Functional Calculus in Several Variables.
  Gelu F Popescu*, University of Texas at San Antonio
  (941-47-92)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Local reflexivity and decomposable operators between C*-algebras.
  Christian Le Merdy*, University of Houston and Universite de Franche-Comte
  (941-46-176)

Friday March 19, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Spaces and Their Applications, II
Room 165, Everitt Laboratory
Organizers:
Gilles Pisier, Texas A & M gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois-Urbana ruan@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dual Injective Operator Spaces.
  Edward G. Effros*, UCLA
  Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois
  (941-46-273)
- 3:30 p.m.
  $p$-norms of independent random matrices and non-commutative $\L_p$-spaces.
  Marius Junge*, University of Kiel
  (941-46-85)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Extendable local reflexivity.
  William Johnson, Texas A&M University
  Timur Oikhberg*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (941-46-200)
- 4:30 p.m.
  $C_1$ does not Banach embed in the predual of a finite von Neumann algebra.
  U. Haagerup, Institute of Mathematics, University of Odense, Odense, Denmark
  H. Rosenthal*, University of Texas at Austin
  F. A. Sukochev, Flinders University
  (941-46-128)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Derivations from Von Neumann Algebras into Trace Class Operators.
  Corran Webster*, Texas A&M University
  Roger Smith, Texas A&M University
  (941-46-339)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Cohomology for finite index inclusions of factors.
  Allan M. Sinclair, Univ. of Edinburgh
  Roger R. Smith*, Texas A&M Univ.
  (941-46-268)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Spaces and Their Applications, III
Room 165, Everitt Laboratory
Organizers:
Gilles Pisier, Texas A & M gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois-Urbana ruan@math.uiuc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Quasidiagonality and K-theory.
  Marius Dadarlat*, Purdue University
  (941-46-66)
- 9:00 a.m.
  K-theory of certain C*-algebras associated with free products of cyclic groups.
  Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  Wojciech Szymanski, The University of Newcastle
  (941-46-352)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Pure states on $\mathcal{O}_{d}$.
  Ola Bratteli, University of Oslo
  Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
  Akitaka Kishimoto, University of Hokkaido
  Reinhard F. Werner, Universit\"{a}t Braunschweig
  (941-46-156)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some minimization problems for the free analogue of the Fisher information.
  Nica M. Alexandru*, University of Waterloo
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA
  Speicher Roland, University of Heidelberg
  (941-46-204)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Unbounded operators affiliated to some II-1 factors.
  Florin G Radulescu*, Univ of Iowa
  (941-46-346)

Saturday March 20, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Spaces and Their Applications, IV
Room 165, Everitt Laboratory
Organizers:
Gilles Pisier, Texas A & M gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois-Urbana ruan@math.uiuc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some New Properties of Injective Envelopes.
  Vern I Paulsen*, University of Houston
  (941-47-278)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Higher Order Hankel Forms, Factorization and Derivations.
  William Cohn, Wayne State University
  Sarah Ferguson*, Wayne State University
  Richard Rochberg, Washington University
  (941-47-224)
- 4:30 p.m.
  When do the norm and the cb-norm of elementary operators coincide?
  Robert J Archbold, University of Aberdeen
  Martin Mathieu*, The Queen's University of Belfast
  Douglas W.B. Somerset, University of Aberdeen
  (941-46-22)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Decomposition properties and an invariant for the free group *-algebra.
  Marius B. Stefan*, University of Iowa
  (941-46-335)

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