Title & abstracts of the talks

All Titles and Abstracts

Charles Akemann, University of California St. Barbara,
The Kadison-Singer Problem for type II_1 factors and related questions

Maria Laura Arias, Instituto Argentino de Matematica- Argentina,
Classes of operators in semi-Hilbertian spaces

Jon Bannon, Siena College,
Correspondences and Haagerup's Approximation Property

David Blecher, University of Houston,
Matrix norm characterizations of certain operators and operator spaces

Jonathan Brown, Dartmouth College,
Proper actions of Groupoids on C*-algegras

Larry Brown, Purdue University,
On Higher Real and Stable Ranks for CCR C*-algebras

Jan Cameron, Texas A&M University,
Normalizers of Subfactors

Pete Casazza, University of Missouri,
The Kadison-Singer Problem in Mathematics and Engineering

Ionut Chifan, UCLA,
Ergodic Subequivalence Relations Induced by a Bernoulli Action

Man-Duen Choi, University of Toronto,
My Adventures in Quantum Wonderland

Raul E. Curto, University of Iowa,
An analogue of the Riesz-Haviland Theorem for the truncated moment problem

Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University,
Toward a generalized Dixmier-Douady theory

Paramita Das, Vanderbilt University,
Planar algebra of diagonal subfactor

Ken Davidson, University of Waterloo,
Topological stable rank of Banach algebras

Kenny De Commer, K.U. Leuven,
Monoidal Equivalence of locally compact quantum groups

Abdelkader Dehici, University of Guelma,
Measure of noncompactness and some new results in Fredholm Theory

Detelin Dosev, Texas A&M University,
Commutators on ℓ_1

Benton Duncan, North Dakota State University,
Universal free products of directed graph operator algebras

Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University,
On sums of Hermitian operators in finite von Neumann algebras

Caleb Eckhardt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
OL_∞ structure related to quasidiagonality and finiteness for nuclear C*-algebras

Junsheng Fang, University of New Hampshire,
Unitarily invariant norms and factor von Neumann algebras

Remus Floricel, University of Regina, Canada,
The asymptotic flow of an E_0 -semigroup

Shamindra Kumar Ghosh, Vanderbilt University,
Planar algebra of Bisch-Haagerup subfactors

Geoff Goehle, Dartmouth College,
The Spectrum of Groupoid C*-algebras

Guihua Gong, University of Puerto Rico,
Strong Novikov conjecture and Geometrical Novikov conjecture

Maria Celeste Gonzalez, Instituto Argentino de Matematica,
Metric properties of pro jections in semi-Hilbertian spaces

Pinhas Grossman, Vanderbilt University,
Quadrilaterals of factors

Manjul Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology,
On the Representation of Lorentz Sequence Class type Operators

U. Haagerup, Odense University,
The invariant subspace problem -Linear algebra in infinitely many dimensions
Solution of the Effros-Ruan conjecture for bilinear forms on C*-algebras

Don Hadwin, University of New Hampshire,
Topological Free Entropy Dimension

Larry Harris, University of Kentucky,
Removable singularities of analytic functions and real rank zero

Marius Ionescu, Cornell University,
The Generalized Effros-Hahn Conjecture for Groupoids

Chris Jankowski, University of Pennsylvania,
On E_0 -semigroups induced by completely positive maps on M_n(C )

Byung-Jay Kahng, Canisius College,
Fourier transform in the quantum group setting

Steve Kaliszewski, Arizona State University,
Proper Actions and Categorical Landstad Duality

Sooran Kang, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Yang Mills for a deformed Heisenberg C* Algebra

Upasana Kashyap, University of Houston,
Morita equivalence of dual operator algebras

Claus Koestler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chicago,
A noncommutative extended de Finetti theorem

Alexander Kumjian, University of Nevada,
k-morphs

Sneh Lata, University of Houston,
An Operator Algebraic Proof of the Agler and Nevanlinna Factorization Theorems

Hyun Ho Lee, Purdue University,
Three examples of homotopy classifications of projections in corona algebra of a non-simple stable C*-algebras

Weihua Li, University of New Hampshire,
A Note on Approximately Divisible C*-algebras

Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon,
Asymptotic Unitary Equivalence and Applications

Magdalena Musat, University of Memphis,
Noncommutative Khintchine-type inequalities and applications

Matt Neal, Denison University,
A solution to the generalized contractive pro jection problem

Ping Wong Ng, University of Louisiana,
Nuclearity and weak uniqueness

Igor Nikolaev, Fields Institute,
On a desingularization of the moduli space of noncommutative tori

Nikolai K. Nikolski, University of Bordeaux (France),
Looking at the bounded inversion conjecture via model operators

Zhidong (Patrick) Pan, Saginaw Valley State University,
On isomorphisms of reflexive algebras on Banach spaces

Vern Paulsen, University of Houston,
A dynamical systems approach to the Kadison-Singer problem

Jesse Peterson, University of California Berkeley,
Finite von Neumann algebras associated to groups with positive first ℓ^2 -Betti number

Gabriel Picioroaga, SUNY at Binghamton,
Representations of Thompson’s Group F in L^2(R^n)

Robert T. Powers, University of Pennsylvania,
E-0-Semigroups of type II_0_0

John Quigg, Arizona State University,
Coverings of skew-products and crossed products by coactions

Mrinal Raghupathi, University of Houston,
Representations of Logmodular Algebras

Mohan Ravichandran, University of New Hampshire,
The Laplacian masa in a free group factor is Maximal Injective

Mikael Rordam, University of Copenhagen,
The Jiang-Su algebra

Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
p-Operator Spaces

Claude Schochet, Wayne State University,
Bundles of C*-algebras and a theorem of Eilenberg and Steenrod

Orr Shalit, University of Technion (Israel),
Is every (multi-parameter) semigroup of completely positive maps “a part of ” a semigroup of *-endomorphisms?

Sonia Sharma, University of Houston,
Operator spaces which are M-ideals in their bidual

David Sherman, University of Virginia,
Locally inner automorphisms of operator algebras

Aidan Sims, University of Wollongong Australia,
The classes of graph algebras, Exel-Laca algebras, and ultragraph algebras coincide up to Morita equivalence

Preeti Singh, University of Houston,
Tight Frames and Unitary Representations

Anna Skripka, Texas A&M University,
Spectral shift and trace inequalities

Roger Smith, Texas A&M University,
Normalizers of tensor products

Richard M. Timoney, Trinity College Dublin,
Operator space structure of JC* triples and TROs

Ivan Todorov, Queen's University Belfast,
s-numbers of elementary operators

Mark Tomforde, University of Houston,
Equiangular tight frames from Seidel matrices containing cube roots of unity

Gabriel Tucci, Texas A&M University,
Some quasinilpotent generators of the hyperfinite II_1 -factor

Alfons Van Daele, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
The antipode: a fascinating concept

Marty Walter, University of Colorado,
Off Diagonal Matrix Coefficients are Tangents to State Space: Orientation and C*-algebras

Alan Wiggins, Vanderbilt University,
Strong Singularity Constants for Subfactors of II_1 Factors

Dana P. Williams, Dartmouth College,
Renault’s Equivalence Theorem for Groupoid Dynamical Systems and Beyond

Jasang Yoon, University of Texas-Pan American,
When is hyponormality for 2-variable weighted shifts invariant under powers?