AMS :: 2011 Fall Central Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Sunday, October 23, 2011 00:29:39

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Friday October 14, 2011, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Operator Algebras, I
Room 120, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Allan P. Donsig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln adonsig1@unl.edu
David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 4:00 p.m.
  Invariants for operator algebras of topological dynamics (Preliminary Report).
  Benton L Duncan*, North Dakota State University
  (1074-46-54)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Spectral triples for equicontinuous actions and metrics on state spaces.
  Kamran Reihani*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
  (1074-46-58)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Pseudo Diagonals of C*-Algebras.
  Gabriel Nagy, Kansas State University
  Sarah A Reznikoff*, Kansas State University
  (1074-46-333)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Operator algebras from abelian semigroup actions.
  Justin R Peters*, Iowa State University
  (1074-47-186)

Saturday October 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Operator Algebras, II
Room 120, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Allan P. Donsig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln adonsig1@unl.edu
David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 9:00 a.m.
  Isomorphism of noncommutative domain algebras.
  Alvaro Arias*, University of Denver
  Frederic Latremoliere, University of Denver
  (1074-47-195)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Aperiodicity Conditions in Topological $k$-Graphs.
  Sarah E Wright*, College of the Holy Cross
  (1074-46-95)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Perturbations of crossed product II$_1$ factors.
  Jan M. Cameron*, Vassar College
  (1074-47-300)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Combinatorial Algebra for Normed Structures.
  Will Grilliette*, Alfred University
  (1074-47-260)

Saturday October 15, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Operator Algebras, III
Room 120, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Allan P. Donsig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln adonsig1@unl.edu
David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2:30 p.m.
  Fuglede-Kadison determinants for operators in the von Neumann algebra of an equivalence relation.
  Catalin Georgescu, University of South Dakota
  Gabriel Picioroaga*, University of South Dakota
  (1074-47-47)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Viewing tight inverse semigroup algebras as partial crossed products.
  David Milan*, The University of Texas at Tyler
  Benjamin Steinberg, Carleton University
  (1074-47-283)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Second moments of unitaries in a II$_1$-factor.
  Kate Juschenko*, Texas A&M University
  Kenneth Dykema, Texas A&M University
  (1074-46-332)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Contractive spectral triples for crossed products.
  Alan L. Paterson*, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309
  (1074-46-81)

Sunday October 16, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress in Operator Algebras, IV
Room 120, Burnett Hall
Organizers:
Allan P. Donsig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln adonsig1@unl.edu
David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 9:00 a.m.
  A New Proof of Mercer's Theorem.
  Vrej A Zarikian*, United States Naval Academy
  (1074-47-213)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Boundaries for operator systems.
  Craig Kleski*, University of Virginia
  (1074-47-331)
- 10:00 a.m.
  C*-algebraic characterization of bounded orbit injection equivalence for minimal free Cantor systems.
  Frederic Latremoliere*, University of Denver
  (1074-46-204)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Operators Cauchy Dual to 2-hyperexpansive Operators: The Multivariable Case.
  Raul E Curto*, The University of Iowa
  (1074-47-179)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Contributions to the theory of $C^{*}$-correspondences.
  Elias Katsoulis*, East Carolina University & University of Athens
  (1074-47-307)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The Maximal W$^*$-dilation and Morita Equivalence.
  Upasana Kashyap*, The Citadel
  (1074-46-203)