ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2004 The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar August 6 - 8 Texas A&M University, College Station
Schedule: Talks for SUMIRFAS will be posted on the Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability page, URL http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/workshops/linanalysis/ Below is a list of speakers, current as of July 18.
The Home Page also contains other information about the Workshop, including a list of participants and a schedule of seminars.
Housing: Contact Cheryl Williams, (cherylr@math.tamu.edu; 979/845-9424, office; 979/ 845-6028, fax) for help with housing. Please tell Cheryl the type of accommodation you desire (smoking or nonsmoking).
We expect to be able to cover housing for most participants from support the National Science Foundation has provided for the Workshop. Preference will be given to participants who do not have other sources of support, such as sponsored research grants. When you ask Cheryl to book your room, please tell her if you are requesting support.
Dinner: There will be a dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 7, at Imperial Chinese Restaurant, 2232 S. Texas Ave. in College Station. The cost for the subsidized dinner is $15 per person for faculty and accompanying persons and $10 per person for student participants. Please tell Cheryl Dorn if you (and spouse or companion, if applicable) will attend. Checks should be made out to Math. Dept., TAMU.
** DINNER RESERVATIONS SHOULD BE MADE BY August 2 and PAYMENT MADE BY August 6. **
W. Johnson, johnson@math.tamu.edu K. Dykema, kdykema@math.tamu.edu D. Larson, larson@math.tamu.edu G. Pisier,pisier@math.tamu.edu J. Zinn, jzinn@math.tamu.edu
SUMIRFAS talks (as of July 18)
Hari Bercovici, A classical proof of a conformal mapping theorem derived from free probability theory
Uffe Haagerup, Random Matrices and C*-algebras
Alexander Koldobsky, Intersection bodies and $L_p$-spaces
Michael Lacey, Hankel Operators and Product BMO
Narutaka Ozawa, New progress in the classification of group von Neumann algebras
Assaf Naor, Markov chains in metric spaces and the Lipschitz extension problem
Stanislaw Szarek, (not yet confirmed)