AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 17, 2010 00:33:02

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc.
Special Event or Lecture | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, I
MS 5138, Math Science Building
Organizers:
Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Quasi-homomorphism rigidity with noncommutative targets.
  Narutaka Ozawa*, University of Tokyo
  (1063-22-260)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A Normal Subgroup Theorem for (Dense) Commensurators of Lattices.
  Darren Creutz*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1063-37-226)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On cocycle superrigidity for Gaussian actions.
  Jesse Peterson*, Vanderbilt University
  Thomas Sinclair, Vanderbilt University
  (1063-46-242)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Strong solidity of group factors from lattices in $\rm{SO}(n,1)$ and $\rm{SU}(n,1)$.
  Thomas J Sinclair*, Vanderbilt University
  (1063-47-239)

Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, II
MS 5138, Math Science Building
Organizers:
Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Von Neumann algebras with unique group measure space Cartan subalgebra.
  Ionut Chifan*, Vanderbilt University
  Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
  (1063-47-240)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Borel versus measure theoretic notions in the study of equivalence relations.
  Greg Hjorth*, Universtiy of Melbourne, UCLA
  (1063-03-123)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Stone--Cech boundaries of discrete groups and measure equivalence theory.
  Hiroki Sako*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo
  (1063-46-183)

Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, III
MS 5138, Math Science Building
Organizers:
Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Rigidity of hyperbolic lattices in the framework of integrable measure equivalence.
  Uri Bader, Technion, Haifa
  Alex Furman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Roman Sauer, Munster University
  (1063-37-116)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Measure equivalence rigidity of amalgamated free products.
  Yoshikata Kida*, Kyoto University
  (1063-37-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A class of group factors $L(G)$ that remember the group $G$.
  Stefaan Vaes*, K.U.Leuven
  (1063-46-117)

Sunday October 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Rigidity in von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, IV
MS 5138, Math Science Building
Organizers:
Adrian Ioana, University of California Los Angeles adiioana@math.ucla.edu
Narutaka Ozawa, Tokyo University narutaka@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sorin Popa, University of California Los Angeles popa@math.ucla.edu
Yehudah Shalom, University of California Los Angeles shalom@math.ucla.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Approximation properties and absence of Cartan subalgebra for free Araki-Woods factors.
  Cyril Houdayer*, CNRS-ENS Lyon
  (1063-46-158)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Brooks' Theorem for measure-preserving group actions.
  Alexander S. Kechris*, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
  (1063-37-188)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rigidity for Actions of Wreath Product Groups.
  J Owen Sizemore*, UCLA
  (1063-46-149)
- 4:30 p.m.
  W$^*$-superrigidity for Bernoulli actions of property (T) groups.
  Adrian Ioana*, Clay Mathematics Institute
  (1063-46-256)