2nd ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2014 The Summer Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar July 25-27 Texas A&M University, College Station
The speakers for SUMIRFAS 2014 are
March Boedihardjo A new characterization of certain quasidiagonal operators Michael Brannan L_p -representations of discrete quantum groups and exotic quantum group C*-algebras Caleb Eckhardt Unitary representations of nilpotent groups and the structure of the C*-algebras they generate Matthew Kennedy Boundaries of reduced C*-algebras of discrete groups Vern Paulsen Quantum chromatic numbers Gilles Pisier A continuum of C*-norms on B(H)?B(H) and related tensor products Lova Randrianarivony TBA Dan Voiculsecu Some C*-algebras which are coronas of non-C*-Banach algebras Deping Ye Is Einstein's "spooky action" common?
The webpage for SUMIRFAS, including links to the schedule and abstracts, can be found at
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/workshop/sumirfas2014
The first talk will be at 2:00 pm on Friday and the Seminar concludes by lunch time on Sunday. All talks will be in Blocker 166. The Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University Dr. on the Texas A&M campus:
http://www.math.tamu.edu/contact/blocker.html
SUMIRFAS will be preceded by a Concentration Week on Free Probability from July 21 to 25. Topics will include operator algebras, the connections to random matrix theory, operator-valued and fully matricial techniques, stochastic processes, limit theorems, and free stochastic differential equations. The program will feature lecture series by Greg Anderson, Serban Belinschi, and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko. The webpage is located at:
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~jwilliams/Free_Probability_2014
The Workshop is supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Minorities, women, graduate students, and young researchers are especially encouraged to attend.
For logistical support, including requests for support, please contact Cara Barton <cara at math.tamu.edu>. For more information on the Workshop itself, please contact William Johnson <johnson at math.tamu.edu>, David Kerr <kerr at math.tamu.edu>, or Gilles Pisier <pisier at math.tamu.edu>.
For information about the Concentration Week on Free Probability contact Michael Anshelevich <manshel at math.tamu.edu>, Ken Dykema <ken.dykema at math.tamu.edu>, or John Williams <jwilliams at math.tamu.edu>.