AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:12

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

Saturday September 23, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, I
Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Commutators of Idempotents and Invariant Subspaces.
  Peter Rosenthal*, University of Toronto
  (957-47-180)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hankel operators on the Bergman space and Schatten p-classes: the case where p is strictly between 1 and 2.
  Jingbo Xia*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (957-47-196)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weak Reflexivity for Operators.
  Deguang Han*, McMaster University and University of Central Florida
  (957-47-184)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theorem revisited.
  Peter Friis*, University of Waterloo
  (957-46-251)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Normal dilations of operators.
  Man-Duen Choi*, University of Toronto
  (957-47-179)

Saturday September 23, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, II
Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Extremely amenable groups.
  Thierry Giordano*, University of Ottawa
  Vladimir Pestov, Victoria University of Wellington
  (957-22-288)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cyclic homology of convolution algebras of p-adic groups.
  Victor Nistor*, Penn State
  (957-19-136)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Differential Calculus on Quantum Groups and Cyclic Cohomolgy.
  Masoud Khalkhali*, Western Ontario
  (957-47-250)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Continuous fields of C*-algebras, boundary value problems and index theorems.
  Ryszard Nest*, Copenhagen University
  (957-58-280)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The Non-commutative Curvature Invariant.
  David Kribs*, University of Waterloo
  (957-47-326)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, III
Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Operator versions of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
  Chandler Davis*, University of Toronto
  (957-47-252)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The structure of free semigroup algebras.
  Kenneth R. Davidson*, University of Waterloo
  Elias Katsoulis, East Carolina University
  David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska
  (957-47-148)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Projective Operator Spaces in Harmonic Analysis.
  Brian Forrest*, University of Waterloo
  (957-43-189)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the $\mathcal {OL}_{\infty}$ structure of nuclear $C^*$-algebras.
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Narutaka Ozawa, Texas A&M University
  Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (957-46-158)
- 11:00 a.m.
  First and Second Order Arithmetic Means, Operator Ideals and a Solution to a Problem of Wodzicki.
  Victor Kaftal, University of Cincinnati
  Gary Weiss*, University of Cincinnati
  (957-47-308)

Sunday September 24, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Operator Theory, IV
Room 3201, Sandford Fleming Building
Organizers:
Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto choi@math.toronto.edu
George Elliott, University of Toronto elliott@math.toronto.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Finite approximations and physics over unconventional fields and rings.
  Trond Digernes*, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  (957-81-274)
- 2:30 p.m.
  $q$-Circular elements and non-commutative tori.
  James A. Mingo*, Queen's University
  Alexandru Nica, University of Waterloo
  (957-46-231)
- 3:00 p.m.
  R-cyclic matrices in free probability.
  Alexandru M Nica*, University of Waterloo
  Roland Speicher, Queen's University
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, U.C.L.A.
  (957-46-216)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Maximization problems for free entropy.
  Roland Speicher*, Queen's University, Kingston
  (957-46-75)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion

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