AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:09

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Saturday March 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, I
Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Dietmar Bisch, University of California, Santa Barbara bisch@math.ucsb.edu
Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A representation theory for standard lattices.
  Sorin Popa*, UCLA
  (951-46-181)
- 9:20 a.m.
  The classification of higher Coxeter ADE graphs, and the finite subgroups of quantum SU(3).
  Adrian Ocneanu*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (951-22-74)
- 10:10 a.m.
  A new approach to index less than four subfactors.
  Vaughan Jones*, UC Berkeley
  (951-46-187)

Saturday March 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, II
Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Dietmar Bisch, University of California, Santa Barbara bisch@math.ucsb.edu
Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  commutators associated to a subfactor and the relative commutant.
  Hsiang-Ping Huang*, Dept of Math UC Berkeley
  (951-46-98)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Microstates free entropy and cost of equivalence relations.
  Dimitri Y Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
  (951-46-72)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Free stochastic measures via noncrossing partitions.
  Michael Anshelevich*, UC Berkeley
  (951-46-139)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A quantum dynamics generator in free group factor(s) constructed out of operators with automorphic symbol.
  Florin G Radulescu*, University of Iowa, Dept. Math
  (951-46-177)

Sunday March 12, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, III
Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Dietmar Bisch, University of California, Santa Barbara bisch@math.ucsb.edu
Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Invariant Subspaces for Voiculescu's Circular Operator (joint work with K. Dykema).
  Uffe Haagerup*, Odense University, Denmark
  (951-46-182)
- 9:20 a.m.
  The coalgebra of the free difference quotient in free probability theory.
  Dan V Voiculescu*, U.C. Berkeley
  (951-46-101)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Free diffusions and matrix models.
  Philippe Biane*, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure
  (951-47-80)

Sunday March 12, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, IV
Room 2112, Girvetz Hall
Organizers:
Dietmar Bisch, University of California, Santa Barbara bisch@math.ucsb.edu
Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Dan Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley dvv@math.berkeley.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fusion of Positive Energy Representations of $LE_8$ using von Neumann algebras.
  Antony J Wassermann*, CNRS Luminy / DPMMS Cambridge
  (951-46-127)
- 3:50 p.m.
  Algebraic orbifold conformal field theories.
  Feng Xu*, University of Oklahoma
  (951-46-116)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Compact Kac algebras and subfactors.
  Teodor Banica*, UC Berkeley
  (951-46-132)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Braid representations and tensor categories.
  Hans G Wenzl*, UC San Diego
  (951-46-144)

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