S2019

Spring 2019 Meeting: March 30-31.

Location: University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

Invited Speakers:

• Tattwamasi Amrutam* (Houston) On Intermediate $C^*$-sub-algebras of Crossed Products of $C^*$-simple group actions

• Martijn Caspers (TU Delft) Quantum Markov semi-groups, BMO-estimates and Cartan rigidity

• David Damanik (Rice) Spectral properties of almost periodic Schrödinger operators

• Adam Dor-On (UIUC) Operator algebraic graph representation theory

• Kari Eifler* (Texas A&M) Non-local Games and the Graph Isomorphism Game

• Sherry Gong (UCLA) The Novikov conjecture, the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms, and Hilbert-Hadamard spaces

• Ben Hayes (Virginia) Max-Min theorems for weak containment, square summable homoclinic points, and completely positive entropy

• Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein (Baylor University and University of Almeria, Spain) Asymptotics of multiple orthogonal polynomials for cubic weight

• Gilles Pisier (Texas A&M) On the Weak Expectation Property for C*-algebras

*=graduate student

Titles and abstracts

All lectures, registrations and breaks will take place in PGH 232. (UH Campus map: here)

Tentative Schedule: 

Local information: Driving instructions and a campus map in which the location of the PGH building is shown: http://www.uh.edu/nsm/math/administration/directions/ (the building is Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall). Parking: there are several visitor parkings across the campus, which you can locate on this map: https://www.uh.edu/af-university-services/parking/_images/visitor%20parking%20map_8.3.16.jpg