AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 28, 2007 00:31:19

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday April 21, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, I
Room 411, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Steven P. Kaliszewski, Arizona State University kaliszewski@asu.edu
Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University Jack.Spielberg@asu.edu
John C. Quigg, Arizona State University quigg@asu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonstable $K$-Theory of Unital Free Product C*-Algebras.
  Bruce Blackadar*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Reno
  (1027-46-191)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent progress on the Cuntz semigroup.
  Andrew S. Toms*, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  (1027-46-31)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Applications of the Cuntz Semigroup.
  Nate Brown*, Penn State University
  (1027-47-48)

Saturday April 21, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, II
Room 411, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Steven P. Kaliszewski, Arizona State University kaliszewski@asu.edu
Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University Jack.Spielberg@asu.edu
John C. Quigg, Arizona State University quigg@asu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic Kasparov cycles and extensions.
  Constantin Dorin Dumitrascu*, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  Radu Popescu, Instituto Superior T�cnico, Lisbon, Portugal
  (1027-19-223)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of non-selfadjoint operator algebras of directed graphs.
  Benton L. Duncan*, North Dakota State University
  (1027-46-21)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Crossed Products by Free Abelian Groups as Higher-rank Graph Algebras.
  Cynthia Farthing*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  David Pask, University of Wollongong
  Aidan Sims, University of Wollongong
  (1027-46-212)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The noncommutative Choquet boundary.
  William Arveson*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1027-47-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Generalized-low pass filters and the resulting isometries.
  Judith A. Packer*, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (1027-46-231)

Sunday April 22, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras, III
Room 411, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Steven P. Kaliszewski, Arizona State University kaliszewski@asu.edu
Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University Jack.Spielberg@asu.edu
John C. Quigg, Arizona State University quigg@asu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  $C^*$-algebras and self-similar groups.
  Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  (1027-46-70)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Noncommutative T-duality and Pontryagin duality for groupoids.
  Calder Daenzer*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1027-19-49)

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