1st ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2013 The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar August 2-4 Texas A&M University, College Station
Schedule: Talks for SUMIRFAS will be posted on the Workshop in Analysis and Probability page, whose URL is
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/workshop/
The first talk will be in the early afternoon on Friday and the Seminar concludes by lunch time on Sunday. All talks will be in Blocker 169. 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.
Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 148.
SUMIRFAS 2013 is dedicated to the memory of Ted Odell, who was one of the organizers of the UTAMIRFAS, the predecessor of SUMIRFAS. Ted served with distinction on the advisory board of the Workshop from its beginning until his untimely passing in January.
The Plenary speakers at SUMIRFAS 2013 are Stephen Dilworth, Steve Jackson, Masoud Khalkhali, Thomas Schlumprecht, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, and Wilhelm Winter. Other speakers include Tim Rainone, Paul Skoufranis, and John Williams.
August 5-9 there will be a Concentration Week on "Dynamics, Geometry, and Operator Algebras", organized by David Kerr and Guoliang Yu. This Concentration Week aims to promote connections between nuclearity, nuclear dimension, group C*-algebras and crossed products, topological and measurable dynamics, algebraic dynamics, entropy, dimensional ideas from coarse geometry, and K-theory with applications to topology. The program will feature lecture series by David Kerr, Stuart White, and Rufus Willett. The URL for this Concentration Week is
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/concweek13/
Immediately preceding SUMIRFAS, on August 1, there will be a celebration of "The Mathematical Legacy of Ted Odell", organized by Thomas Schlumprecht. The URL for this activity is
http://math.slu.edu/~freeman/LegacyConference/
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@math.tamu.edu. For more information on the Workshop itself, please contact William Johnson johnson@math.tamu.edu, David Kerr kerr@math.tamu.edu, or Gilles Pisier pisier@math.tamu.edu.
For information about the Concentration Week on "Dynamics, Geometry, and Operator Algebras" contact David Kerr kerr@math.tamu.edu.
For information about the day devoted to "The Mathematical Legacy of Ted Odell" contact Thomas Schlumprecht schlump@math.tamu.edu