AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37

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

Saturday October 21, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, I
Room 816, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Operator Valued Frames.
  Victor Kaftal, University of Cincinnati
  David Larson*, Texas A&M University
  Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati
  (1020-47-231)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Operator theory in Quantum information.
  Man-Duen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
  (1020-47-224)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Cuntz Semigroup.
  N. P. Brown*, Penn State University
  (1020-46-190)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A Survey of the Quantum Permutation Groups.
  Shuzhou Wang*, University of Georgia
  (1020-46-155)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Twisted spectral triples.
  Henri Moscovici*, Department of mathematics, The Ohio State University
  (1020-46-137)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Quantum spheres and their modules.
  Albert J. L. Sheu*, University of Kansas
  (1020-46-255)

Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, II
Room 816, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Kadison-Singer Problem in Mathematics and Engineering.
  Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
  (1020-47-24)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Symmetric functionals, traces and norms.
  Nigel J Kalton*, University of Missouri
  (1020-46-115)
- 4:00 p.m.
  3-Paving Small Matrices and the Kadison-Singer Extension Problem.
  Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati
  Vrej Zarikian*, United States Naval Academy
  (1020-47-159)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Gradients for free groups.
  Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  (1020-46-123)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Spectral pictures of $2$-variable weighted shifts.
  Ra\'ul E Curto*, The University of Iowa
  (1020-47-44)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, III
Room 816, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Continued fractions and AF algebras.
  Florin P Boca*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1020-46-26)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Limits and $C^*$-Algebras of Low Rank or Dimension.
  Lawrence G. Brown*, Purdue University
  Gert K. Pedersen,
  (1020-46-52)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some examples of actions of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ on C*-algebras generated by unitaries.
  Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto
  Frederic Latremoliere*, University of Cincinnati
  (1020-46-183)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The homotopy type of the automorphism group of Kirchberg algebras.
  Marius Dadarlat*, Purdue University
  (1020-46-25)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Algebras generated by isometries.
  Hari Bercovici*, Indiana University
  (1020-47-147)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Local Structure of Nuclear C*-algebras.
  Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1020-46-158)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Results on Operator Algebras, IV
Room 816, Swift Hall
Organizers:
Herbert Halpern, University of Cincinnati halpern@math.uc.edu
Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati gary.weiss@math.uc.edu
Costel Peligrad, University of Cincinnati costel.peligrad@uc.edu
Shuang Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@math.uc.edu
Victor G. Kaftal, University of Cincinnati kaftal@math.uc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  About some C*-algebras arising from reduced group C*-algebras.
  Bogdan C Visinecu*, University of Cincinnati
  (1020-47-267)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Subspaces of spherical functions of the crossed product.
  Raluca Dumitru*, University of Cincinnati
  (1020-47-254)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On perturbation of operators in semifinite von Neumann algebras.
  Anna Skripka*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (1020-47-179)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Examples of prime von Neumann algebras.
  Mingchu Gao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Marius Junge, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1020-46-156)

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