Operators and Operator Algebras in Edinburgh
December 8-11 2009

Supported by

• College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh
• Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust
• International Centre for Mathematical Sciences
• London Mathematical Society
• Maxwell Institute
• Royal Society of Edinburgh
• School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
• Springer

Honorary Organisers

• Alastair Gillespie
• Allan Sinclair

Organising commitee

• Tony Carbery
• Ian Doust
• Sandra Pott
• Stuart White
• Jim Wright

Conference Administrator

• Audrey Brown

Maps

• Interactive Campus Map
• Printable Campus Map

Download posters

• A2: Colour, Black and white.
• A3: Colour, Black and white.
• A4: Colour, Black and white.
Poster design: John Carbery

Information

An international conference on operators and operator algebras was held at the University of Edinburgh during December 2009. The Honorary Organisers were Alastair Gillespie and Allan Sinclair.

.

Programme

Tuesday 8 December 2009

08:45 -- 09:45 Registration
09:50 -- 10:00 Welcome

• 10:00 -- 10:45 Sandy Davie (Edinburgh)
  The invariant subspace problem - old and new
• 10:45 -- 11:15 Coffee
• 11:15 -- 12:00 Ian Doust (New South Wales)
  Notes on the R-property for spectral families
• 12:05 -- 12:50 Michael Cowling (Birmingham)
  Resolvent estimates and the shape of the spectrum
Session Chair: Nicholas Young

12:50 -- 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 -- 14:45 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche (Orleans)
  Some remarks on amenable and Haagerup relative properties for groupoids and von Neumann algebras.
• 14:50 -- 15:35 Uffe Haagerup (Odense)
  Factorization and dilation problems for completely positive maps on von Neumann algebra
• 15:35 -- 16:00 Tea
• 16:00 -- 16:45 Roger Smith (Texas A&M)
  Cohomology of von Neumann algebras
Session Chair: David Salinger

17:15 -- 19:15 Reception in Mathematics Common Room

Wednesday 9 December 2009

• 09:30 -- 10:15 Earl Berkson (Illinois Champaign-Urbana)
  Alastair Gillespie: a fine aye for Operator Theory
• 10:15 -- 10:45 Coffee
• 10:45 -- 11:30 Stefaan Vaes (KU Leuven)
  Superrigidity for group measure space II₁ factors.
• 11:40 -- 12:25 Oscar Blasco (Valencia)
  Restrictions of multipliers on weighted L^p spaces.
Session Chair: Sandra Pott

12:25 -- 14:00 Lunch

Maxwell Insitute Colloquium

• 14:00 -- 14:45 Marius Junge (Illinois Champaign-Urbana)
  Noncommutative Riesz transforms
• 14:55 -- 15:40 Javier Parcet (CSIC + UA Madrid)
  A Hormander type multiplier theorem for arbitrary discrete groups
• 15:40 -- 16:15 Tea
• 16:15 -- 17:00 Gilles Pisier (Paris VI + Texas A&M)
  Regular operators on (possibly non-commutative) L^p spaces
Session chair: Jim Wright

Thursday 10 December

• 09:30 -- 10:15 Erik Christensen (Copenhagen)
  Stability of length under perturbations
• 10:15 -- 10:45 Coffee
• 10:45 -- 11.30 Jose Luis Torrea (UA Madrid)
  Extension Problem and Harnack's inequality for some fractional operators
• 11:40 -- 12:25 Werner Ricker (KU Eichstaett)
  Banach space geometry and Boolean algebras of projections
Session Chair: Charles Batty

12:25 -- 14:00 Lunch

• 14:00 -- 14:45 Jesse Peterson (Vanderbilt)
  Examples of W*E-superrigidity
• 14:55 -- 15:40 Stuart White (Glasgow)
  Perturbations of nuclear C*-algebras
• 15:40 -- 16:15 Tea
• 16:15 -- 17:00 Gavin Brown (Royal Institution of Australia)
  Sumsets for asymmetric Cantor measures
Session Chair: Ben Garling

19:00 Conference Dinner, Balmoral Hotel.

Friday 11 December

• 09:30 -- 10:15 Maria J. Carro (Barcelona)
  On restriction of maximal multipliers in weighted settings
• 10:25 -- 11:10 Narutaka Ozawa (Tokyo)
  Dixmier's similarity problem
• 11:10 -- 11:40 Coffee
• 11:40 -- 12:25 Nigel Kalton (Columbia, Missouri)
  Traces and unitarily invariant norms on operator ideals
Session Chair: John Ringrose

12:30 Conference ends

Edinburgh Mathematical Society Meeting at Heriot Watt University

• 17:00 -- 18:00 Charles Batty (Oxford)
  Functional calculus of unbounded operators