Operator Algebras and Non-Commutative Geometry, October 24-25

Organizers: Paul Baum, Adrian Ocneanu, and Victor Nistor

You can find here some information how to reach State College and some information about hotels and reservations in the area. The talks will be 40 minutes long. Please feel free to contact me if you need more information. Thanks!

Here is the schedule:

    Saturday, October 24:

  1. 8:45 a.m. Some minimization problems for the free analogue of the Fisher information.
    Alexandru M. Nica, University of Waterloo.
  2. 9:30 a.m. Operator-Valued semicircular systems.
    Dimitri Y Shlyakhtenko, UCLA.
  3. 10:15 a.m. Subfactors and planar algebras of small dimension.
    Dietmar Bisch, University of California at Santa Barbara

  4. 2:30 p.m. Joint Special Session talk by John Roe in Room 362, Willard Bldg.
  5. 3:30 p.m. Twist Positivity.
    Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University.
  6. 4:15 p.m. The eta invariant, relative cyclic cocycles and quasi-action of groups.
    Hitoshi Moriyoshi, Keio University.
  7. 5:00 p.m. Homotopical algebra and cyclic cohomology.
    Masoud Khalkhali, University of Western Ontario.
  8. 5:45 p.m. Analog Baum-Connes map and an index theorem for manifols with proper actions.
    Ronghui Ji, IUPUI.

    Sunday, October 25:

  9. 8:45 a.m. Characters of cycles and equivariant Chern character.
    Alexander Gorokhovsky, Ohio State University
  10. 9:30 a.m. $S^1$ Equivariant Novikov Conjecture.
    John W. Lott, University of Michigan
  11. 10:15 a.m. Hopf algebra cyclic cohomology and characteristic classes of foliations.
    Henri Moscovici , Ohio State University.

  12. 2:30 p.m. The trace formula in Noncommutative Geometry and the Riemann Zeta function.
    Alain Connes, I.H.E.S and Ecole Normale, Paris, France.
  13. 3:30 p.m. Two-dimensional groups and the Baum-Connes assembly map.
    Alain J. Valette, University of Neuchatel.
  14. 4:15 p.m. Hochschild and cyclic homology of certain dynamical systems arising in number theory.
    Eric Leichtnam, Ecole Normale Superieure.
  15. 5:00 p.m.Generation properties in some group von Neumann algebras tensor B(H) .
    Florin G. Radulescu, University of Iowa In addition to these talks, there were related talks different seminars in our department by Robert Lauter (10/20/98), Alain Connes (10/23/98), and Ryszard Nest (10/29/98).
Only the people who submitted an abstract have been included in this list.

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