AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 12, 2008 00:23:32

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

Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, I
Room 317, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Connes' embedding problem and Horn's inequalities.
  Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa and CNRS, France
  Kenneth J Dykema*, Texas A&M University
  (1038-46-98)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Non-stable K-Theory and Extramally Rich C*-algebras.
  Lawrence G. Brown*, Purdue University
  Gert K. Pedersen, deceased
  (1038-46-121)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Non-embedding of the Jiang-Su algebra.
  Andrew S Toms*, York University
  Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University
  Ilan Hirshberg, Ben Gurion University
  Wilhelm Winter, University of Nottingham
  (1038-47-123)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Essential representations of product systems.
  Remus Floricel*, University of Regina
  (1038-46-238)

Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, II
Room 317, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Some probabilistic and topological properties of the free quantum orthogonal group $A_o(n)$.
  Benoit V P Collins*, University of Ottawa and CNRS
  (1038-46-105)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Application of multilinear function series in non-commutative probability with amalgamation.
  Mihai Popa*, Indiana University at Bloomington
  (1038-47-154)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Noncommutative independence from the braid group $\mathbb{B}_\infty$.
  Claus M Koestler*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1038-46-286)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Conditionally free convolutions of probability measures with unbounded support.
  Serban T. Belinschi*, University of Saskatchewan
  (1038-46-131)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some applications of free stochastic calculus: absence of Cartan subalgebras in q-deformed free group factors.
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA Department of Mathematics
  (1038-46-118)

Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, III
Room 317, Ballantine Hall
Organizers:
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some applications of operator space techniques in quantum information.
  Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  (1038-46-167)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Applications of Quantum Groups to Quantum Information Theory.
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
  Matthias Neufang, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
  Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
  (1038-46-132)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Diagonals of positive operators.
  Victor Kaftal*, University of Cincinnati
  (1038-47-134)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org