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.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Applications, I
Room 217, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jerry Kaminker, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis kaminker@math.iupui.edu
Ronghui Ji, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ronji@math.iupui.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Oriented $\Lambda$-trees and their $C^*$-algebras, preliminary report.
  Jack Spielberg*, Arizona State University
  (985-46-219)
- 9:00 a.m.
  KMS states on C*-algebras associated to expansive maps.
  Alex Kumjian*, University of Nevada
  Jean Renault, Universit\'e d'Orl\'eans
  (985-46-107)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Geodesic laminations and noncommutative geometry.
  Igor Nikolaev*, University of Calgary
  (985-46-35)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Smooth Subalgebras, Group C*-algebras and Cyclic Cohomology.
  Ronghui Ji*, IUPUI
  (985-46-211)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A note on noncommutative harmonic functions.
  Slawomir Klimek*, IUPUI
  (985-47-174)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Trees, Ultrametrics and Noncommutative Geometry.
  Bruce Hughes*, Vanderbilt University
  (985-47-119)

Saturday April 5, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Applications, II
Room 217, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jerry Kaminker, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis kaminker@math.iupui.edu
Ronghui Ji, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ronji@math.iupui.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Discussion
- 3:30 p.m.
  Euler characteristics of manifolds of bounded geometry.
  John G Miller*, IUPUI
  (985-58-284)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolic groups, bounded cohomology and orbit equivalence superrigidity.
  Igor Mineyev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (985-20-190)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Uniformly embedding discrete groups into Hilbert space.
  Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii, Manoa
  Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University
  Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
  (985-46-323)

Sunday April 6, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Applications, III
Room 217, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Jerry Kaminker, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis kaminker@math.iupui.edu
Ronghui Ji, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ronji@math.iupui.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Heat kernels for perturbed Dirac operators.
  Jeffrey Fox, University of Colorado
  Peter Haskell*, Virginia Tech
  (985-58-106)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some remarks on the universal coefficient theorem in KK-theory.
  Marius Dadarlat*, Purdue University
  (985-46-124)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Kadison-Singer problem as a combinatorial problem.
  Nik Weaver*, Washington University
  (985-05-96)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Operator Trigonomety.
  Morteza Seddighin*, Indiana University-East
  (985-47-26)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Rectifiable diameters of the Grassmann spaces of certain von Neumann algebras and C*-algebras.
  Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  (985-46-197)

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