Special Week on Operator Algebras 2026


Monday, August 3rd
08:45-10:05
Guoliang Yu
Chair: Huaxin Lin
Opening & Simplicial Volume and Positive Scalar Curvature
10:05-10:35
Tea Break
10:35-11:25
Zhengwei Liu
Chair: Feng Xu
Functional Integral Construction of Topological Quantum Field Theory
11:35-12:25
Yi-Jun Yao
Chair: Feng Xu
Quantization of Symplectic Actions and Deformation Theory
12:25-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-14:50
Dmitriy Zanin
Chair: Xiang Tang
Principal symbol calculus on contact manifolds: C*-algebraic approach
14:50-15:20
Tea Break
15:20-16:10
Zhichao Liu
Chair: Xiang Tang
Classification of homomorphisms into simple C*-algebras with strict comparison
16:20-17:10
Kang Li
Chair: Xiang Tang
Maximal Ideals of Reduced Group C*-Algebras and Applications to Thompson's Groups
17:30-
Dinner
Tuesday, August 4th
09:00-09:50
Liming Ge
Chair: Guoliang Yu
Thompson Groups, Semigroups, Operator Algebras and Number Theory
09:50-10:20
Tea Break
10:20-11:10
Xiang Tang
Chair: Guoliang Yu
Higher Lefschetz formulas on Γ-proper manifolds
11:20-12:10
Hang Wang
Chair: Guoliang Yu
Euler Characteristic and Higher Kazhdan Projections
12:10-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-14:50
Hanfeng Li
Chair: Vladimir Manuilov
Permanents and restricted permutations
14:50-15:20
Tea Break & Group Photo
15:20-16:10
Sayan Das
Chair: Vladimir Manuilov
On Connes' Rigidity Conjecture
16:20-17:10
Qingnan An
Chair: Vladimir Manuilov
Bockstein operations and total K-theory
17:30-
Dinner
Wednesday, August 5th
09:00-09:50
Ruy Exel
Chair: Huaxin Lin
Consonant Inverse Semigroups
09:50-10:20
Tea Break
10:20-11:10
N. Christopher Phillips
Chair: Guihua Gong
An isomorphism theorem for infinite reduced free products
11:20-12:10
Yuhei Suzuki
Chair: Guihua Gong
Stabilization theorem and symmetric structure of Cuntz–Pimsner algebras
12:10-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-14:50
Feng Xu
Chair: Hang Wang
On singular limits of relative entropies
14:50-15:20
Tea Break
15:20-16:10
Jinmin Wang
Chair: Hang Wang
Complete metric with positive scalar curvature on punctured aspherical manifolds
16:20-17:10
Jintao Deng
Chair: Hang Wang
The relative Novikov conjecture
17:30-
Banquet
Thursday, August 6th
09:00-09:50
Guihua Gong
Chair: Yuhei Suzuki
Invariant and classification of simple amenable Z-stable C*-algebras and homomorphisms
09:50-10:20
Tea Break
10:20-11:10
Vladimir Manuilov
Chair: Yuhei Suzuki
On K-theory of Roe algebras
11:20-12:10
Shanshan Hua
Chair: Yuhei Suzuki
Acyclic Groups as a Toolkit in Operator Algebras
12:10-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-
Free Afternoon
Friday, August 7th
09:00-09:50
Stuart White
Chair: Jianchao Wu
Infinite reduced free products of nuclear C*-algebras
09:50-10:20
Tea Break
10:20-11:10
Shintaro Nishikawa
Chair: Jianchao Wu
Power operations in equivariant KK-theory and Baum–Connes for finite wreath products
11:20-12:10
Xin Ma
Chair: Jianchao Wu
Finite dynamical asymptotic dimension for tiling groupoids and the applications to time-frequency analysis
12:10-14:00
Closing Lunch
14:00-14:50
Bin Gui
Chair: Qin Wang
Unitary non-rational conformal field theory
14:50-15:20
Tea Break
15:20-16:10
Yongle Jiang
Chair: Qin Wang
On the classification of invariant random von Neumann subalgebras