THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

January-June 2014 Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras Lead Organizers Anthony To-Ming Lau (Alberta) Matthias Neufang (Carleton and Lille 1) Organizing Committee H. Garth Dales (Lancaster) George Elliott (Toronto) Thierry Giordano (Ottawa) Eberhard Kaniuth (Paderborn) David Kerr (Texas A&M) Zhong-Jin Ruan (UIUC) Andrew Toms (Purdue) George Willis (Newcastle, Australia)

Program Outline
The six-month Thematic Program will begin with a month-long Winter School on Basics in Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras followed by four concentration periods, devoted to one of the Program themes.

Special Lectures

May 27-29, 2014 Coxeter Lecture Series
Sorin Popa (University of California, Los Angeles)
On II_1 factors arising from free groups acting on spaces

 

Graduate Course	January 6-April 4, 2014 Crossed products of C*-algebras and Banach algebras. (course videos) Professor N. Christopher Phillips (Oregon) (Dean's Distingished Visiting Professor)
Theme Concentration Periods
January 6-17: Winter School Organizer: Zhiguo Hu	Winter School Activities Summary
February 10-20: Group Structure, Group Actions and Ergodic Theory Organizer: George Willis	Schedule for Mini-courses on Group Structure, Group Actions and Ergodic Theory I. Week of February 10-14 activities II. Week of February 18-20 activities
March: C*-Algebras and Dynamical Systems Organizer: George Elliott	Elliott Distinguished Visitor Lectures February 25 - March 27 Speaker: Eberhard Kirchberg March 20-25 at 2:00 p.m. Mini-session on "Multi-norms" March 26-28 at 3:30 p.m. von Neumann Lecture Series Uffe Haagerup, University of Copenhagen Approximation Properties for Groups and von Neumann Algebras
March-April: Banach and Operator Algebras over Groups Organizer: Garth Dales	March 27-April 4, 2014 Introductory Lectures April 7-16, 2014 Specialized Lectures
May: Operator Spaces, Locally Compact Quantum Groups and Amenability Organizer: Volker Runde	Mini-courses Week of May 12-16 Minicourses Week of May 20-23 Workshop Week of May 26-30
June: C*-Algebras and Dynamical Systems (continued) Organizer: George Elliott	Mini-courses Week of June 2-6 Mini-course Week of June 9-13 June 16-20, 2014 Workshop (abstracts) Organizers: Zhuang Niu and Luis Santiago Affiliated Activity June 23-27, 2014, 42nd Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and Their Applications (COSy),

Postdoctoral Fellows and Program Visitors

The Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras is pleased to welcome the following Postdoctoral Fellows to the Program:

Fields Postdoctoral Fellows
Mahmood Alaghmandan (PhD, Saskatchewan, 2013) Mahya Ghandehari (PhD, Waterloo, 2010) Matthew Mazowita (PhD, Alberta, 2013)	Luis Santiago Moreno (PhD, Toronto, 2008) Karen Strung (PhD, Münster) Hannes Thiel, (PhD, Copenhagen, 2012)
Fields-Ontario Postdoctoral Fellow
Sutanu Roy (PhD, University of Goettingen, 2013)

Taking the Institute's Courses for Credit
As graduate students at any of the Institute's University Partners, you may discuss the possibility of obtaining a credit for one or more courses in this lecture series with your home university graduate officer and the course instructor. Students wishing credit may need to arrange for additional individual instruction to make up for the extra hours. Assigned reading and related projects may be arranged for the benefit of students requiring these courses for credit.

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