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29th Canadian Symposium on Operator Algebras April 26, 2001 - May 01, 2001

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Apr 29, 2001
Sunday
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Factors and geometry
Alain Connes (Collège de France)
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
  Free products and universal properties in the theory of subfactors
Sorin Popa (University of California, Los Angeles)
01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
  Subfactors and planar algebras
Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University)
02:15 PM - 02:45 PM
  A dimension reduction theorem for a class of AH-algbras including simple AH algebras and real rank zero AH algebras
Guihua Gong
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM
  Tracial topological rank zero and AH-algebras.
Huaxin Lin
03:15 PM - 04:10 PM
  Approximation by subalgebras and the UCT
Marius Dadarlat
04:10 PM - 04:40 PM
  A simple C*-algebra containing a finite and an infinite projection
Mikael Rordam (University of Copenhagen)
04:40 PM - 05:40 PM
  Groupoids, inverse semigroups, and their C*-algebras
Mahmood Khoshkam
Apr 30, 2001
Monday
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  Cyclic derivatives and von Neumann algebras
Dan Virgil Voiculescu (University of California, Berkeley)
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
  Non-commutative simplicial complexes and characteristic classes
Joachim Cuntz (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
  The Riemann zeta function and Connes's noncommutative geometry
Liming Ge
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
  Free semigroup algebras
Ken Davidson
May 01, 2001
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  New results on topological orbit equivalence
Ian Putnam (University of Victoria)
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM
  Classification of non-simple purely infinite algebras
Eberhard Kirchberg (Humboldt-Universität)
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
  Invariant subspaces of R-diagonal operators
Roland Speicher
02:30 PM - 03:45 PM
  Free Araki-Woods factors
Dimitri Shlyakhtenko (University of California, Los Angeles)
03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
  Isomorphism theorems for C*-algebras of minimal diffeomorphisms
N. Phillips