Special Week on Operator Algebras in June 2013


Monday, 17 June
9:00 AM--9:05 AM Opening
9:05 AM--10:00 AM Mikael Rordam:  Central sequences and tensorial absorption of the Jiang-Su algebra.
10:00 AM--10:30 AMTea Break
10:30 AM--11:25 AMHervĀ“e Oyono-Oyono:  Persistent Approximation Property for C*-algebras with propagation.
11:20 AM--1:30 PMLunch Break
1:30 PM--2:25 PMZhong-jin Ruan:  Multipliers of locally compact groups and quantum groups.
2:25 PM-- 2:30 PMRest
2:30 PM--3:25 PMQin Wang:  Some progress on the coarse Novikov conjecture.
3:20 PM--3:55 PMTea Break
3:55 PM--4:50 PM Zhuang Niu:   C*-algebras of certain non-minimal homeomorphisms on a Cantor set.

Tuesday, 18 June
8:30 AM--9:25 AMLiming Ge:  Uncertainty principle for abelian groups.
9:25 AM--9:30 AMRest
9:30 AM--10:25 AM Hiroyuki Osaka:  LP property for C*-algebras.
10:25 AM--10:55 AMTea Break
10:55 AM--11:50 AMYasuhiko Sato:  Decomposition rank of UHF-absorbing C*-algebras.
11:50 AM--2:00 PMLunch Break
2:00 PM--2:55 PM Guoliang Yu:  Finite part of K-theory for group C*-algebras and its applications.
2:55 PM--3:25 PMTea Break
3:25 PM--4:20 PM Yijun Yao:  On K-theory of some noncommutative orbifolds.

Wednesday, 19 June
9:00 AM--9:55 AMGuihua Gong:  Classification of simple C*-algebras of generalized tracial rank one.
9:55 AM--10:25 AMTea Break
10:25 AM--11:20 AMJa A Jeong:  Cuntz-Krieger Algebras associated with Labeled Graphs.
11:20 AM--2:00 PMLunch Break
2:00 PM--2:55 PMMagdalena Musat:  Factorizable completely positive maps and the Connes embedding problem.
2:55 PM--3:30 PMTea Break
3:30 PM--4:25 PM Feng Xu:  On questions about intermediate subfactors.

Thursday, 20 June
Day Break

Friday, 21 June
9:00 AM--9:55 AMUffe Haagerup:  Approximation properties for groups and von Neumann algebras.
9:55 AM--10:25 AMTea Break
10:25 AM--11:00 AMDan Li:  Harper operators: their geometry and physics.
11:00 AM--11:05 AMRest
11:05 AM--11:40 AMWei Sun:  The relationship between approximate conjugacies and K-theory for certain dynamical systems.


Abstracts.