AMS :: 2012 Spring Western Section Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, March 10, 2012 00:27:19

Associate secretaries:

Saturday March 3, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras and Index Theory, I
Room D101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Erik Guentner, University of Hawaii at Manoa erik@math.hawaii.edu
Efren Ruiz, University of Hawaii at Hilo ruize@hawaii.edu
Erik Van Erp, University of Hawaii at Manoa jhamvanerp@gmail.com
Rufus Willett, University of Hawaii at Manoa rufus.willett@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  The localized Longitudinal index theorem for Lie groupoids and the Van Est map.
  M. Pflaum, University of Colorado
  H. Posthuma, University of Amsterdam
  X. Tang*, Washington University in St. Louis
  (1078-58-162)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Reverse order laws in C*-algebras.
  Dragana S. Cvetkovic Ilic*, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, University of Nis, Visegradska 33, 18000 Nis, Serbia
  (1078-47-15)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Approximation properties of uniform Roe algebras.
  Xiaoman Chen*, Institute of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  (1078-46-339)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras and Index Theory, II
Room D101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Erik Guentner, University of Hawaii at Manoa erik@math.hawaii.edu
Efren Ruiz, University of Hawaii at Hilo ruize@hawaii.edu
Erik Van Erp, University of Hawaii at Manoa jhamvanerp@gmail.com
Rufus Willett, University of Hawaii at Manoa rufus.willett@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Basic Homotopy Lemma and locally AH-algebras.
  Huaxin Lin*, University of Oregon
  (1078-46-279)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Analogies in the structure of W*- and C*-algebras.
  Nate Brown*, Penn State
  (1078-46-204)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Classification of graph C*-algebras and the Extension Problem.
  Mark Tomforde*, University of Houston
  (1078-46-09)

Sunday March 4, 2012, 3:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on C*-algebras and Index Theory, III
Room D101, Business Administration Building
Organizers:
Erik Guentner, University of Hawaii at Manoa erik@math.hawaii.edu
Efren Ruiz, University of Hawaii at Hilo ruize@hawaii.edu
Erik Van Erp, University of Hawaii at Manoa jhamvanerp@gmail.com
Rufus Willett, University of Hawaii at Manoa rufus.willett@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Algebraic K-theory of group algebras.
  Guoliang Yu*, Vanderbilt University
  (1078-19-296)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Dirac classes for crossed-products.
  Heath Emerson*, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada
  Bogdan Nica, Georg-August Universitat Gottingen
  (1078-19-202)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Higher spectral flow.
  Jerome Kaminker*, UC Davis and IUPUI
  (1078-47-402)