AMS :: Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, October 24, 2015 03:30:09

Associate secretaries:

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Saturday October 17, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on von Neumann Algebras, I
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
David Penneys, University of California Los Angeles dpenneys@math.ucla.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Problems involving Majorization in II$_1$ Factors.
  Paul Skoufranis*, Texas A&M University
  (1113-46-32)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Approximation properties for subfactors.
  Arnaud Brothier*, Vanderbilt University
  (1113-46-245)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Approximation of operator functions.
  Anna Skripka*, University of New Mexico
  (1113-47-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Generalized $q$-gaussian von Neumann algebras with coefficients and their structural properties.
  Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Bogdan T Udrea*, University of Iowa
  (1113-46-210)

Saturday October 17, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on von Neumann Algebras, II
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
David Penneys, University of California Los Angeles dpenneys@math.ucla.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantum Doubles and Conformal Field Theory.
  Marcel Bischoff*, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
  (1113-81-63)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analytical Properties for Tensor Categories.
  Corey M Jones*, Vanderbilt University
  (1113-46-146)
- 4:00 p.m.
  W$^*$-rigidity for products of hyperbolic groups.
  Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
  Rolando de Santiago, University of Iowa
  Thomas Sinclair*, Purdue University
  (1113-46-270)
- 4:30 p.m.
  W$^* $ rigidity for products of hyperbolic ICC groups.
  Rolando de Santiago*, The University of Iowa
  Ionut Chifan, The University of Iowa
  Thomas Sinclair, Purdue University
  (1113-47-277)
- 5:00 p.m.
  $II_1$ facors with non-isomorphic ultrapowers.
  Remi Boutonnet, University of California San Diego
  Ionut Chifan*, The University of Iowa
  Adrian Ioana, University of California San Diego
  (1113-46-69)

Sunday October 18, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on von Neumann Algebras, III
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
David Penneys, University of California Los Angeles dpenneys@math.ucla.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Skein theory for subfactors.
  Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
  (1113-46-162)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Convex Sets Associated to C*-Algebras.
  Scott A. Atkinson*, University of Virginia
  (1113-47-242)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Regularity of polynomials in non-commuting random variables.
  Ian L. Charlesworth*, University of California, Los Angeles
  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1113-46-246)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unique Prime Factorization for Von Neumann Algebras of Equivalence Relations.
  Daniel J Hoff*, University of California, San Diego
  (1113-47-301)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The maximal atlas, Brauer-Picard groupoids, and subfactors.
  Noah Snyder*, Indiana University
  (1113-46-94)

Sunday October 18, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on von Neumann Algebras, IV
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
David Penneys, University of California, Los Angeles dpenneys@math.ucla.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Haagerup--Schultz projections and upper triangular forms for some unbounded operators affiliated to finite von Neumann algebras.
  Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
  Fedor Sukochev, University of New South Wales
  Dmitriy Zanin, University of New South Wales
  (1113-46-233)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Perturbation Problems for Subfactors.
  Alan Wiggins*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  (1113-46-304)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Maximal amenability and disjointness for the radial masa.
  Chenxu Wen*, Vanderbilt University
  (1113-46-13)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Deformations of group-type commuting squares and Hadamard matrices.
  Remus Nicoara*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1113-46-201)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A free graph algebra and atomless loops.
  Michael Hartglass*, UC Riverside
  (1113-46-67)