Conference Program

Start Time End Time Event
Wednesday 14 May 2003 All talks in Math. Dept. Tea Room (MS 6620)
09:00 09:45 Kadison: "An Introduction to the Theory of Von Neumann Algebras."
09:50 10:35 Ozawa: "Some prime factorization results for type II_1 factors"
10:40 11:25 Popa: "The amenability-rigidity antimony in the study of type II_1 factors"
11:30 12:00 N. Brown: "Connes' Embedding Problem and Lance's WEP"
12:00 14:00 *** Lunch ***
14:00 14:45 Doplicher: "Geometry of Quantum Spacetime"
14:50 15:35 Ocneanu: "Quantum Subgroups and Canonical Bases"
15:45 16:30 Wassermann: "Von Neumann algebras and loop groups"
16:35 17:05 Landstad: "Compact, open subgroups of a quantum group and multiplier Hopf *-algebras"
17:15 18:00 Izumi: "Group-subgroup subfactors"
Thursday 15 May 2003 All talks at IPAM
09:00 09:45 Jones: "The planar structure of subfactors"
09:50 10:35 Bisch: "Singly Generated Planar Algebras and Subfactors"
10:40 11:25 Kawahigashi: "Classification of 2-dimensional conformal field theories and 2-cohomology vanishing for tensor categories"
11:30 12:00 Xu: "Conformal nets and strong additivity"
12:00 14:00 *** Lunch ***
14:00 14:45 Longo: "A Dichotomy in Conformal Field Theory"
14:50 15:35 Schmidt: "On some of the differences between Z and Z^2"
15:40 16:25 Monod: "Rigidity in measure equivalence and orbit equivalence"
16:30 17:00 Choda: "Compressions of automorphisms on II_1 factors"
17:05 17:35 Digernes: "Some phenomena in the vacuum sector of an unconventional quantum system"
18:00 20:00 *** Dinner in honor of M. Takesaki ***
Friday 16 May 2003 All talks at IPAM
09:00 09:45 Araki: "A commuting family of conditional expectations for Fermion C*-algebras and applications to equilibrium statistical mechnics"
09:50 10:35 Ge: "Markov process in free probability"
10:40 11:25 Shlyakhtenko: "Some estimates for non-microstates free entropy dimension"
11:30 12:00 Bercovici: "Regularity of free convolutions"
12:00 14:00 *** Lunch ***
14:00 14:30 Ueda: "A construction of von Neumann algebras related to combinatorial group theory"
14:40 15:10 Dykema: "Invariant subspaces of DT-operators"
15:20 15:50 Matsui: "On non-equilibrium steady states of quantum spin models"
16:00 16:30 Hiai: "Shlyakhtenko's algebras and ultracontractivity of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup"
Saturday 17 May 2003 All talks in MS4000A
09:00 09:45 Pedersen: "Trace Inequalities in Several Variables"
09:50 10:35 Arveson: "Asymptotic stability of completely positive maps"
10:40 11:10 Christensen: "Spectral triples for UHF C*-algebras"
11:15 11:45 Smith: "Perturabtions of subalgebras of type II_1 factors"
12:00 14:00 *** Lunch ***
14:00 14:30 Boca: "Some spectral computations in rotation algebras"
14:35 15:05 Kosaki: "One-parameter versions of the Heinz inequality"
15:10 15:40 Sherman: "Analytic and algebraic aspects of noncommutative L^p spaces"

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