The 23rd Annual Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 28 - June 1, 2003

PROGRAM

Wednesday, May 28
Invited Talks - 314 Altgeld Hall
9:00-9:10 a.m. Rosenblatt, Department Chair, "Welcome"
9:10-10:00 a.m. Takesaki, "Outer Actions of a Group on a Factor"
10:05-10:35 a.m. Pedersen, C*-topics in ring theory
10:35-11:00 a.m. coffee break
11:00-11:50 a.m. Dadarlat, "Groups, metric spaces and C*-algebras"
12:00-12:30 p.m. Popescu, "Similarity and ergodic theory of positive linear maps"
Lunch
2:00-2:50 p.m. Rordam, "Purely infinite C*-algebras"
 
Contributed Talks AH 341 AH 343 AH 345 AH 347
3:10-3:30 p.m. Russo Tomforde Yoon Larson
3:50-4:10 p.m. Neal Kumjian Yang Kaftal
4:30-4:50 p.m. Zarikian Deaconu Martin-Avendado Ionescu
5:10-5:30 p.m. Spronk Katsura   Beggs
Thursday, May 29
Invited Talks - 314 Altgeld Hall
9:00-9:50 a.m. Yu, "Novikov type conjectures and geometry of Banach spaces"
10:00-10:30 a.m. Nikolaev, "Dimension groups arising in differential geometry"
10:30-11:00 a.m. coffee break
11:00-11:50 a.m. van Daele, "About the Fourier Transform in the theory of locally compact quantum groups"
12:00-12:30 p.m. Enock, "Measured quantum groupoids"
Lunch
2:00-2:50 p.m. Elliott, "Amenable C*-algebras: A survey of the isomorphism problem"
 
Contributed Talks AH 341 AH 245 AH 345 AH 347
3:10-3:30 p.m. Oikhberg Exel Tarasenko Zsido
3:50-4:10 p.m. Kraus Ivanescu Ryan Floricel
4:30-4:50 p.m. Kaneda Hirshberg Martin Marciniak
5:10-5:30 p.m. Vasilevski Pasnicu Li Kribs
Friday, May 30
Invited Talks - 314 Altgeld Hall
9:00-9:50 a.m. Effros, "Feynman diagrams and Wick products associated with q-Fock spaces"
10:00-10:30 a.m. Blecher, "Some recent explorations in operator spaces"
10:30-11:00 a.m. coffee break
11:00-11:50 a.m. Smith, "Perturbations of subalgebras of type II1 factors"
12:00-12:30 p.m. Rosenthal, "Lp(R) is isomorphically stable for p=2^n or p=3 2^{n-1}"
Friday afternoon is free activity time
Saturday, May 31
Invited Talks - 314 Altgeld Hall
9:00-9:50 a.m. Arveson, "Asymptotic stability of completely positive maps"
10:00-10:30 a.m. Laca, "KMS states of quasi-free dynamics"
10:30-11:00 a.m. coffee break
11:00-11:50 a.m. Muhly, "Some Advances in the Theory of Tensor Algebras"
12:00-12:30 p.m. Curto, "Hyponormality of powers of weighted shifts via Schur products"
Lunch
2:00-2:50 p.m. Bercovici, "Regularity of free convolutions"
 
Contributed Talks AH 341 AH 245 AH 345 AH 347
3:10-3:30 p.m. Peters Dean Kahng Sherman
3:50-4:10 p.m. Pitts Itza-Ortiz Soltan Anshelevich
4:30-4:50 p.m. Arias Kaliszewski Nagy Musat
5:10-5:30 p.m. Jury   Mei
Sunday, June 1
Invited Talks - 314 Altgeld Hall
9:00-9:50 a.m. Pisier, "Factorization of certain cb maps and type III von Neumann algebras"
10:00-10:30 a.m. Ozawa, "Some prime factorization results for type II1 factors"
10:30-11:00 a.m. coffee break
11:00-11:50 a.m. Dykema, "Applications of von Neumann algebras to invariant subspaces"