Schedule
All talks will take place in Marrs McLean Building, Room 101 (Campus Map) (Park and walk direction)
Saturday, Oct 21st (Talk Abstract)
8:20-9:00 Coffee/Denish
9:00 Welcome (Department Chair Dorina Mitrea)
9:05-9:50 Guihua Gong
On the classification of non-commutative spaces
9:50-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-10:50 Hui Tan
Existential closedness and the structure of bimodules of II_1 factors
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:55 Selim Sukhtaiev
The Maslov index in spectral theory: an overview
12:00 Group Picture
12:10-2:00 Lunch (Sid Richardson 340)
2:00-2:45 Xiang Tang
Helton-Howe Trace, Connes-Chern Character, and Quantization
2:50-3:20 Coffee Break
3:20-3:50 Marcus Laurel
Weighted Morrey Spaces as Generalized Banach Function Spaces
4:00-4:30 XiaoYu Su
Topological stable rank of F.D.C. action
4:30-4:50 Coffee Break
4:50-5:35 Kate Juschenko
Topological amenability and Kesten's criteria
6:30 Dinner at Baylor club (North lounge on 4th floor) 7pm with cash bar (credit card only) starting at 6:30pm
Sunday, Oct 22nd (Talk Abstract)
8:20 Coffee+Fruits
9:00-9:45 Adam Skalski
Characterising residually finite dimensional C*-algebras in dynamical contexts
9:45-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:00 Ping Zhong
The Brown measure of a sum of two free random variables, one of which is R-diagonal
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Nico Spronk