1st ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2010 The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar July 30 - August 1 Texas A&M University, College Station
Schedule: Talks for SUMIRFAS will be posted on the Workshop in Analysis and Probability page, URL
http://www.math.tamu.edu/conferences/linanalysis/
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.tamu.edu/map/building/overview/BLOC.html.
Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 148.
Speakers at SUMIRFAS 2010 include
Florent Baudier, On various geometric properties of metric spaces Ionut Chifan, Von Neumann algebras with unique group measure space Cartan subalgebras Ken Davidson, Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation and factorization of functionals Quanlei Fang, Commutators and localization on the Drury-Arveson space Kevin Beanland, Strictly singular operators between separable Banach spaces Ted Gamelin, Composition operators on uniform algebras Assaf Naor, Towards a calculus for non-linear spectral gaps Roger Smith, Close nuclear separable C$^*$-algebras Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, On random matrices with independent log-concave columns Joel A. Tropp, User-friendly tail bounds for sums of random matrices
Michael Anshelevich (chair), Jinho Baik, and Roland Speicher are organizing a Concentration Week on "Orthogonal Polynomials in Probability Theory" for the week of July 6-10. The theme of this Concentration Week is orthogonal polynomial techniques in probability theory, especially in the study of random matrices, free probability, and multiple stochastic integrals. Baik and Speicher will give mini-courses designed to introduce non specialists to these topics. The home page for this Concentration Week is at http://www.math.tamu.edu/~manshel/OPPT/main.html
Ilijas Farah and David Kerr (chair) are organizing a Concentration Week on "Set Theory and Functional Analysis" for the week of July 26-30. The broad theme will be recent applications of set theory in functional analysis, with emphasis on combinatorial phenomena and classifiability problems in operator algebras, dynamics, and Banach space theory. The program will include lecture series by Christian Rosendal, David Sherman, and Todor Tsankov. The home page for this Concentration Week is at http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/concweek10/index.html
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.
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, contact Cara Barton cara@math.tamu.edu. For more information on the Workshop itself, 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 "Orthogonal Polynomials in Probability Theory", contact Michael Anshelevich manshel@math.tamu.edu.
For information about the Concentration Week "Set Theory and Functional Analysis", contact David Kerr kerr@math.tamu.edu.