SCHEDULE FOR SUMIRFAS 2006
           The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar
                            August 4 - 6
                  Texas A&M University, College Station



Talks for SUMIRFAS will also be  posted  on the  Workshop in Analysis and Probability page:

http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/workshops/linanalysis/

All talks will be in Blocker 165.   The Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University Dr. on the Texas A&M campus: 

http://www.tamu.edu/map/building/overview/BLOC.html

Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 155. 

Pete Casazza, David Larson, and Thomas Schlumprecht are organizing a Concentration Week on "Frames, Banach spaces and Signal Processing" that will take place after SUMIRFAS, August 7 - August 11. The purpose of the Concentration Week is to bring researchers in Frame and Wavelet Theory / Signal and Image Processing together with researchers in Banach space theory to generate a "cross-fertilization" of areas.

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 Cara to book your room, please tell her if 
you are requesting support. Minorities, women, graduate students, and young 
researchers are especially encouraged to apply.

For logistical 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 Larson, larson@math.tamu.edu, Gilles Pisier, pisier@math.tamu.edu, or Joel Zinn, jzinn@math.tamu.edu. For information about the Concentration Week on "Frames, Banach spaces and Signal Processing", please contact David Larson, larson@math.tamu.edu, or Thomas Schlumprecht, schlump@math.tamu.edu.



			    Schedule for SUMIRFAS 2006

Friday, August 4  Blocker 165

 1:00- 1:25  Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 155
 1:25- 1:30  Greeting
 1:30- 2:20  Pete Casazza, The Kadison-Singer problem in mathematics and engineering
 2:35- 3:25  Gary Weiss, 3 paving small matrices and the Kadison-Singer extension problem
 3:30- 4:00  Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 155
 4:00- 4:30  Bentuo Zheng, Operators from L_p (2<p<\infty) which factor through l_p
 4:45- 5:35  David Kerr, The Kolmogorov property in dynamics

Saturday, August 5  Blocker 165

 9:00- 9:30  Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 155
 9:30-10:00  Taka Ozawa, A comment on free group factors
10:15-11:05  Alex Furman, Property (T) and rigidity for group actions on Banach spaces
11:20-11:50  Eric Ricard, On the algebraic structure of the unitary group
12:00- 1:45  Lunch
 1:45- 2:35  Chris Heil, The density theorem for Gabor systems and localized frames
 2:50- 3:20  Beata Randriantoanina, On contractive projections in Hardy spaces
 3:25- 3:45  Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 155
 3:45- 4:35  Marius Junge, Rosenthal's theorem for noncommutative L_p spaces
 4:50- 5:40  Tadek Figiel, Revisiting Grothendieck's AP implies MAP theorem

 6:45 -      BBQ at Jan & Bill Johnson's house, 1306 Deacon Dr., College Station.  Please tell Cara, cara@math.tamu.edu, if you (and spouse or companion, if applicable) will attend.

Sunday, August 6  Blocker 165

 9:30-10:00  Coffee & refreshments, Blocker 155
10:00-10:50  Stefanie  Petermichl, Multi parameter Riesz commutators and product BMO
11:10-12:00  Gilles Pisier, Characterizations of amenable groups or algebras by their length