42nd Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and Their Applications (COSy)

June 23 - 27, 2014, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Overview

The theory of operator algebras and operator theory has held a significant place in the Canadian mathematical community for many years. One of the centrepieces of the field in Canada has been the Canadian Operator Symposium (COSy). Founded by Israel Halperin in the early 1970’s, the 2014 meeting will be the 42nd time this Conference has been held.
The overall goals of the meeting are:

to bring in international leaders in the field to explain the most topical recent developments to the Canadian community,
to highlight the current research activities of the leaders within Canada and,
to provide a resource for young researchers - graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and young faculty.

Schedule

Monday, June 23rd, 2014
09:30	No Title Specified Wilhelm Winter, Universität Münster
10:40 to 11:30	Elementary amenable groups have quasidiagonal C*-algebra Mikael Rørdam, University of Copenhagen
11:30	The C*-algebra of a minimal homeomorphism with zero mean dimension Zhuang Niu, University of Wyoming
14:00	Boundaries of reduced C*-algebras of discrete groups Matthew Kennedy
15:10 to 16:00	No Title Specified Magdalena Musat
16:00 to 16:30	Cartan MASAs in von Neumann algrebras and exact sequences of inverse semigroups Adam Fuller
16:00 to 16:30	Recurrence and (strong) orbit equivalence Maryam Hosseini Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
16:30 to 17:00	Braided commutative representations of C-algebras Sutanu Roy Location:*Fields Institute, Stewart Library
16:30 to 17:00	Characterization of Spectral Flow Magdalena Georgescu, University of Toronto
17:00 to 17:30	Rokhlin dimension for compact group actions Eusebio Gardella, University of Muesnter
17:00 to 17:30	Exact C-algebras and C0 (X)-structure David McConnell Location:*Fields Institute, Stewart Library
17:30	Completely bounded isomorphisms of operator algebras and similarity to complete isometries Raphaël Clouâtre, University of Manitoba
17:30	Rank Constrained Homotopies Kaushika De Silva Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library

Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
09:30	No Title Specified Andrew Toms, Purdue University
10:40 to 11:30	Central sequence algebras with and without characters Eberhard Kirchberg, Humboldt University of Berlin
11:30 to 12:20	The dimension of approximately subhomogeneous C*-algebras Aaron Tikuisis
12:20 to 12:50	Uniqueness Theorem for certain 1-dimensional NCCW with non-trivial K1-group Cristian Ivanescu
12:50	Quantum groups and generalized circular operators Michael Brannan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
09:30	TBA Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:40 to 11:30	A new tool for constructing nuclear C*-algebras Ilijas Farah, York University
11:30	An introduction to approximate amenability for operator algebraists Fereidoun Ghahramani, University of Manitoba

Thursday, June 26th, 2014
09:30	Smale spaces, their C*-algebras and a homology theory for them. Ian Putnam, University of Victoria
10:40 to 11:30	No Title Specified Luis Santiago
11:30	No Title Specified Guihua Gong
14:00	Examples of operator algebras on L^p spaces: Simplicity, uniqueness theorems, and amenability N. Christopher Phillips
15:10 to 16:00	Freeness and the Transpose James Mingo, Queen's University
16:00 to 16:30	Homology for one-dimensional generalized Solenoids Sarah Saeidi Gholikandi
16:00 to 16:30	Subspaces associated with frames in a Hilbert space Wai Shing Tang Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
16:30 to 17:00	C-algebras of matricially ordered -semigroups Berndt Brenken, University of Calgary
16:30 to 17:00	Groupoid Lp operator algebras Martino Lupini Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
17:00 to 17:30	Tracial state space with non-compact extreme boundary Wei Zhang, Columbia University
17:00 to 17:30	Multiplier algebras of embedded discs Michael Hartz, University of Waterloo Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
17:30	Diagonals of Certain Operator in von Neumann Algebras Paul Skoufranis, University of California, Los Angeles
17:30	Overview of Curvature for Noncommutative Spaces Mitsuru Wilson, Western University Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library

Friday, June 27th, 2014
09:30	Semicrossed products over semigroups Ken Davidson
10:40 to 11:30	'Interpolating' between Hilbert space operators, and real positivity for operator algebras David Blecher, University of Houston
11:30	No Title Specified Thierry Giordano, University of Ottawa
14:00	The Spectral Geometry of Curved Noncommutative Tori Masoud Khalkhali, Western University
15:10 to 16:00	Scalar Curvature and Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for Noncommutative Tori Farzad Fathizadeh, California Institute of Technology
16:00 to 16:30	Noncommutative geometry and conformal geometry Raphaël Ponge, Seoul National University
16:00 to 16:30	Banach algebras generated by an invertible isometry of an Lp-space Hannes Thiel, Universität Münster Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
16:30 to 17:00	A reconstruction theorem for noncommutative G-manifolds Branimir Ćaćić
16:30 to 17:00	Weighted composition operators acting on spaces of vector-valued analytic functions Mostafa Hassanlou Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
17:00 to 17:30	On spectral action principle for Robertson-Walker metrics Asghar Ghorbanpour, University of Regina
17:00 to 17:30	Tensor algebras and subproduct systems arising from stochastic matrices Adam Dor-On Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
17:30 to 18:00	Projections in Eberlein compactifications Nico Spronk, University of Waterloo
17:30 to 18:00	AF-algebra actions of cyclic groups of prime order Zhiqiang Li Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library
18:00	"Conjugacies" between dynamical systems and their relations to crossed products Wei Sun

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