CONFERENCE ON OPERATOR ALGEBRAS AND
APPLICATIONS
(in honour of Professor Christopher Lance)
21–23 SEPTEMBER 2006
PROGRAMME
Lectures will take
place in the
THURSDAY 21
SEPTEMBER.
|
15.00–16.00 |
Registration, tea
and coffee |
|
16.00–16.15 |
Welcome and
introductory remarks |
|
16.15–16.55 |
E.G. Effros: “Going nuclear” |
|
17.05–17.45 |
A.M. Sinclair: “Central sequences: a survey of the
ultrapower of a II1 factor” |
FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER.
|
09.20–10.00 |
A.G. Robertson:
“Rapid decay for free groups and their higher rank analogues” |
|
10.10–10.50 |
J. Cuntz: “On a C*-algebra
associated with the set of prime numbers” |
|
10.50–11.30 |
Coffee and tea |
|
11.30–12.10 |
J. Zacharias: “Approximation properties of Pimsner type algebras” |
|
12.20–13.00 |
S. Wassermann: “Products of C*-bundles” |
|
13.00–14.30 |
Lunch |
|
14.30–15.10 |
E. Kirchberg: “Some remarks and questions concerning
exact C*-algebras” |
|
15.20–16.00 |
I.G. Todorov: “Contractive perturbations in operator
algebras” |
|
16.00–16.30 |
Tea and coffee |
|
16.30–17.10 |
J.R. Ringrose: “Then and now” |
|
18.30–19.00 |
Reception: Great Woodhouse Room, University House |
|
19.00– … |
Conference
Dinner: Great Woodhouse Room,
University House |
SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER.
|
10.00–10.40 |
M. Mathieu: “A not so simple local multiplier algebra” |
|
10.40–11.15 |
Coffee and tea |
|
11.15–11.55 |
N.P. Brown: “A survey of Lance’s WEP” |
|
12.05–12.45 |
M.A. Rieffel: “Lifting projections and extending
Lipschitz functions” |