Operator Space Workshop
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Wednesday March 17 and Thursday March 18, 1999

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The workshop will be held at 245 Altgeld Hall (Mathematics Department), starting Wednesday morning and running through the afternoon on Thursday. There is no registration fee for the workshop. We plan to arrange a dinner on the Wednesday night. If you are interested in coming to this dinner, please inform Zhong-Jin Ruan: ruan@math.uiuc.edu.

The workshop will be followed by an AMS special session on "Operator Spaces and Their Applications" from March 19 to March 20. Professor Vern Paulsen from University of Houston will give a 45 minute main talk in this special session.

The Organizers: Gilles Pisier and Zhong-Jin Ruan.

Workshop Program



Wednesday, March 17

Morning

8:40 Social and Morning Coffee & Donut

9:00 Welcome (from Chair Philippe Tondeur and Provost Richard Herman)

9:05 -10:05 Edward G. Effros, UCLA, Classical and Quantum Notions of Injectivity

10:05-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:15 Christian Le Merdy, Universite de Franche-Comte, France (visiting University of Houston), Finite Rank Approximation and Semidiscreteness for Linear Operators

11:30-12:00 Ozawa, Texas A&M University, On Lifting Property for Universal $C^*$-algebras of Operator Spaces

Afternoon

2:30-3:15 Marius Junge, Kiel University, Germany, Minimal Algebras Generated by Non-commutative Poisson Proceses and Applications

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-4:45 Roger Smith Texas A&M University, The Role of Complete Boundedness in Cohomology

5:00- 5:45 Timur Oihkberg, University of Texas at Austin, Subspaces of Maximal Operator Spaces

6:30 pm Dinner at Silver Creek

Thursday, March 18

Morning

8:40 Social and Morning Coffee & Donut

9:00-9:45 Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon, Classification of Nuclear Simple $C^*$-algebras of Stable Rank One

9:45-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:00 David Blecher, University of Houston, The Dirichlet Problem in Function Algebras, and Equivalence

11:30-12:00 Alvaro Arias, University of Texas at San Antonio, Quotient Algebras and Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Afternoon

2:30-3:15 Florin Radulescu, University of Iowa, Some Commnets on Connes' Embedding Conjecture

3:15-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-4:45 Haskell Rosenthal, University of Texas at Austin, On Certain Extension Properties for the Space of Compact Operators

5:00-6:00 Gilles Pisier, Paris VI and Texas A&M University, Are Unitarizable Groups Amenable?

End of Workshop

Accomodation

Illini Union
On campus, on the south side of Green Street just east of Wright Street. The Mathematics Department is next door, in Altgeld Hall.
Reservations: 217-333-3030
The rates will be: $62 single, $70 double, $75 triple, $84 quadruple, $145 suite. Tax is 11%. Children under 12 years are free when accompanied by an adult.
Parking is available - ask for a permit at check-in.
We blocked 15 rooms for the workshop at the Illini Union. The blocked reservation has to be made through the local organizer, Zhong-Jin Ruan (by February 12, 1999). 217-244-6305 or ruan@math.uiuc.edu.
Directions to Illini Union.

Hampton Inn at U of I
1200 W University Ave. (in Urbana), North of the Mathematics Department, 10 minutes walk.
Reservations: 217-337-1100, or 800-Hampton.
The rate will be: $69/single or double. Tax is 11%

Quality Hotel-University Centre
302 East John Street (in Champaign), West of the Mathematics Department, 5-10 minutes walk.
Reservations: 217-384-2100, or 800-322-8282.
AMS meeting special rate will be $49/single and $60 double. Tax is 11%.

For other AMS suggested hotels, see: AMS Sectional Meetings

Transportation, Parking and Maps

Planes: Willard Airport (CMI) in Champaign has service from Chicago (American Airlines), St. Louis (TWA), Detroit and Minneapolis (Northwest), Indianapolis and Pittsburgh (US Airlines). "Yellow" and "Corky's" shuttles meet most flights, and charge $10 one-way to the Union.
Trains: Amtrak has daily service to Champaign from the north (Chicago) and from the south (New Orleans). From the station (the "Illinois Terminal"), catch almost any eastbound or southbound city bus (75 cents) or take a cab the 1 mile to the Union.
Automobiles: Champaign-Urbana is at the intersection of I-72, I-74 and I-57.
Maps of campus and the area, including Altgeld Hall and the Illini Union.
The organizers' hearty thanks go to Betsy Gillies for her help.
Comments and suggestions regarding this page are very welcome.
--- Zhong-Jin Ruan, ruan@math.uiuc.edu.