Workshop in Analysis and Probability                          Department of Mathematics                              Texas A&M University                                     Summer 2017

The Summer 2017 Workshop in Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University will be in session from July 5 to August 4. All activities will take place in the Blocker Building. The homepage of the Workshop can be found at

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/workshop [www.math.tamu.edu]

The Summer Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar (SUMIRFAS) will be held July 21-23. Its homepage is located at

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/workshop/sumirfas2017 [www.math.tamu.edu]

June 5-9 there will be a Concentration Week, "Ergodic Theory and Operator Algebras", organized by Lewis Bowen and David Kerr. The goal of the meeting is to explore current trends in abstract ergodic theory and its interactions with the structure theory of von Neumann algebras and C*-algebras. Topics include entropy, measured equivalence relations, amenability, soficity, rigidity, random processes on networks, invariant random subgroups, and C*-simplicity. The homepage of the Concentration Week is located at

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/etoa2017 [www.math.tamu.edu]

July 17-21 there will be a Concentration Week, "Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods in Quantum Information Theory", organized by Michael Brannan and Benoit Collins. The past decade has seen a spectacular development of powerful new mathematical tools in quantum information theory, including random matrix theory, free probability theory, representation theory, tensor categories, quantum groups, non-commutative harmonic analysis, operator spaces, and the theory of non-local games. The aim of this concentration week is to bring together both leading experts and young researchers in these fields to further explore these emerging connections. It is intended to be multidisciplinary, with the hope of fostering communications between researchers with different backgrounds and interests related to quantum information theory. The homepage of the Concentration Week is located at

https://sites.google.com/site/probabalgebramethodsinquantum [sites.google.com]

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 Starmer 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 "Ergodic Theory and Operator Algebras" please contact Lewis Bowen lpbowen@math.utexas.edu or David Kerr kerr@math.tamu.edu.

For information about the Concentration Week "Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods in Quantum Information Theory", please contact Michael Brannan mbrannan@math.tamu.edu or Benoit Collins collins@math.kyoto-u.ac.jp.