AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 11, 2008 00:21:06

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

Saturday May 3, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, I
Room B-35, Bauer South
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@uoregon.edu
Feng Xu, University of California Riverside xufeng@math.ucr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Constructing the Haagerup subfactor with planar algebras.
  Emily Peters*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1039-47-118)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Maximal abelian subalgebras of UHF algebras.
  N. Christopher Phillips*, University of Oregon
  (1039-46-165)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Entropy and Fuglede-Kadison Determinant.
  Hanfeng Li*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (1039-46-164)

Saturday May 3, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, II
Room B-35, Bauer South
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@uoregon.edu
Feng Xu, University of California Riverside xufeng@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The planar algebra of group-type subfactors.
  Dietmar Bisch*, Vanderbilt University
  (1039-46-28)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Are Finite Simple C*-Algebras of Real Rank Zero Stably Finite?
  Shuang Zhang*, University of Cincinnati
  (1039-47-110)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Free evolution on algebras with two states.
  Michael Anshelevich*, Texas A&M University
  (1039-46-162)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, III
Room B-35, Bauer South
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@uoregon.edu
Feng Xu, University of California Riverside xufeng@math.ucr.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Pairs of Intermediate Subfactors.
  Pinhas Grossman*, Vanderbilt University
  Masaki Izumi, Kyoto University
  (1039-47-109)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random matrices, free probability, planar algebras and subfactors.
  A Guionnet, ENS Lyon
  VFR Jones, UC Berkeley
  D Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
  (1039-46-151)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Automorphisms of Cuntz-Krieger algebras.
  Efren Ruiz*, Mathematics Department/University of Hawaii at Hilo
  (1039-47-27)

Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, IV
Room B-35, Bauer South
Organizers:
Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon hlin@uoregon.edu
Feng Xu, University of California Riverside xufeng@math.ucr.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  \noindent{\it($\mathcal D$-stable) purely infinite $C^*$-algebras, the ideal property and real rank zero} ({\it Mostly a joint work with Mikael R{\o}rdam)}\\.
  Cornel Pasnicu*, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
  (1039-46-23)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lifting KK-elements, asymptotical unitary equivalence and classification of simple C*-algebras.
  Zhuang Niu*, University of Oregon
  Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon
  (1039-46-171)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Subfactors Obtained From Hadamard Matrices.
  Richard Burstein*, UC Berkeley
  (1039-47-166)

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