Spring2018 Baylor meeting

Sponsored by NSF, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Mathematics.

Invited Speakers:

• Jason Crann (Carleton University, Canada) Mapping ideals of quantum group multipliers

• Ken Dykema (Texas A&M University) Decomposability and upper-triangular forms in finite von Neumann algebras

• Marius Junge (Univ. of Illinois) Matrix-valued isometric inequalities

• Pawel Kasprzak (Warsaw University, Poland) Contractive idempotent functionals on locally compact quantum groups

• Jesse Peterson (Vanderbilt University) Connes' character rigidity conjecture for lattices in higher rank groups

• Yanli Song (Washington University in St. Louis) Orbital integral and trace formula on homogeneous space

• Pierre Tarrago (CIMAT, Mexico) Combinatorics of the free product of planar algebras

• Kun Wang (Texas A&M University) Classification of C∗-algebras and the Invariants

• Zhenhua Wang* (University of Houston) Introduction to Jordan Operator Algebras

• Mateusz Wasilewski* (IMPAN, Poland) Non-conjugacy of generator MASAs in q-Gaussian algebras

Talks will begin on Saturday, Mar. 24 9:30am at Amstrong Browning library. Please use the back entrance on James Ave. Parking on the 8 street and James are free for weekends (including the faculty/staff spots). Sunday meeting will starts 9:30am at room 340 of Sid Richardson.

Organizers: Michael B., Mehrdad K., Andrei M.-F., Brian S., Chian C., Claus K., Dale F., Fritz G., Jon H., Lance L.(chair), Paul H., Tao M., Yan L.