Meeting on Operator Algebras

This two-day meeting will be held at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences on December 15th and 16th, 2003.

PROGRAMME FOR MONDAY, DEC 15

Time	Speaker	Title of talk
0925 - 1010	Bill Arveson	$p$-summable operators in dimension $d$
1015 - 1100	Michael Cowling	Operator algebras associated to lattices in
		simple Lie groups : some examples
1100-1125		COFFEE BREAK
1125 - 1210	Ron Douglas	Generalized Berezin transform
		and $C^*$-algebras
1215 - 1300	K.R. Parthasarathy	Extremal quantum states of coupled systems
1300 - 1400		LUNCH      BREAK
1410 - 1455	Paramita Das	Weak Hopf algebras -
		a diagrammatic approach
1500 - 1545	David Evans	Modular invariants and subfactors
1545 - 1610		COFFEE BREAK
1610 - 1655	Debashish Goswami	Baum-Connes conjecture for quantum
		groups : formulation and some examples
1700 - 1745	Alexander Dynin	Quantum dynamics of classical
		fields : Rigorous Feynman integral
		for variational Schroedinger equations

PROGRAMME FOR TUESDAY DEC. 16

Time	Speaker	Title of talk
0925 - 1010	Joe Ball	Conservative structured noncommutative linear
		systems and formal power series with
		contractive values on operator-tuple balls
1015 - 1100	Gilles Pisier	Factorisation of CB-maps from
		a $C^*$-algebra to certain
		Hilbertian operator spaces
1100-1125		COFFEE BREAK
1125 - 1210	Michael Skeide	von Neumann $B$-modules and
		representations of $B^\prime$
1215 - 1300	Victor Vinnikov	Unitary dilations of commuting contractions
1300 - 1400		LUNCH      BREAK
1410 - 1455	Uwe Franz	Markov property of monotone
		increment processes
1500 - 1545	Claus Koestler	An operator algebraic approach to
		non-commutative white noise
1545 - 1610		COFFEE BREAK
1610 - 1655	Martin Lindsay	Cocycles of stochastic $E$-semigroups
1700 - 1745	Jean-Luc Sauvageot	From quantum semigroups
		to quantum geometry

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