AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:30

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

Saturday April 5, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Free Probability, I
Room 215, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Connes' Embedding Problem, Lance's WEP and the Noncommutative Stone-Weierstrass Problem.
  Nate Brown*, Penn State University
  (985-46-61)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Invariant subspaces for operators modeled by certain upper triangular random matrices.
  Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
  Uffe Haagerup, University of Southern Denmark
  (985-47-231)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Voiculescu's non-microstates free entropy.
  Dimitri Y Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
  (985-46-151)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Free Probability, II
Room 215, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
- 4:00 p.m.
  Non-commutative $L_p$ spaces and their operator space structures.
  Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois
  (985-46-207)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On free semigroupoid algebras.
  David W. Kribs*, Purdue University
  (985-47-48)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Free Probability, III
Room 215, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Remarks on projections in C*-algebras.
  Lawrence G. Brown*, Purdue University
  (985-46-298)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Some quantitative results on the spectrum of almost Mathieu operators.
  Florin P Boca*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Alexandru Zaharescu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (985-47-169)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A Majorization Theory for Infinite Sequences Arising From Traces, Ideals, Arithmetic Means and Commutators.
  Gary Weiss*, University of Cincinnati
  Victor Kaftal, University of Cincinnati
  (985-47-233)
- 12:00 p.m.
  K-theory of Certain C*-algebras associated with free products of cyclic groups.
  Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  Wojciech Szymanski, University of Newcastle
  (985-46-196)

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