October 11-12, 2014
The 12th East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
Fields Institute , 222 College St,Toronto
Organizers:
Ilijas Farah, York University
George A. Elliott, University of Toronto

Registration on-site Oct. 11 Registration fees: $50, students and PDF $25, waived for invited speakers	Contributed talks	Accommodation in Toronto	Information for speakers
	Confirmed Participants	Toronto	Information for funded participants
	Program

This will be the twelfth annual meeting in the East Coast Operator Algebra Symposium series and the first one to be held in Canada. The first meeting in the series was held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, in the fall of 2003, and since then meetings have been held each fall. The focus of the meetings is on operator algebras and non-commutative geometry, with applications to a wide range of areas from number theory to quantum physics.

Confirmed speakers:

Serban Belinschi, Queen's University
Nathanial P. Brown, Penn State University
José Carrión, Penn State University
Marius Dadarlat, Purdue
Caleb Eckhardt, Miami University
Farzad Fathizadeh, UWO
Isaac Goldbring, UIC
Frederic Latremoliere, University of Denver
Hanfeng Li, University of Buffalo
Zhengwei Liu, Vanderbilt
Martino Lupini, York University
Leonel Robert, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Dima Shlyakhtenko, UCLA

Program - The 12th East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
Speaker Abstracts

Saturday October 11th
8:30-9:00am	Registration On-Site
9:00-9:45am	Nate Brown (Penn State University) On the Toms-Winter Conjecture
9:45-10:15am	Coffee Break
10:15-11:00am	Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University) K-theoretic quasidiagonality and almost flat bundles
11:15-11:45am	Caleb Eckhardt (Miami University) Nuclear dimension of nilpotent group C-algebras*
12:00-12:30pm	Isaac Goldbring (University of Illinois at Chicago) (Slides) Existentially closed C algebras and operator systems*
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch Break
2:00-2:45pm	Hanfeng Li (University of Buffalo) Ergodicity of principal algebraic actions
2:45-3:15pm	Coffee Break
3:15-4:00pm	Leonel Robert (University of Louisiana) Commutators and regularity of C-algebras*
4:15-5:00pm	Frederic Latremoliere (University of Denver) (Slides) The Gromov-Hausdorff propinquity
5:15-5:45pm	Farzad Fathizadeh (University of Western Ontario) Scalar curvature and Einstein-Hilbert action for noncommutative tori

Sunday October 12th
9:00-9:45am	Serban Belinschi (Queen's University) The linearization trick
9:45-10:15am	Coffee Break
10:15-11:00am	Dima Shlyakhtenko (University of California, Los Angeles) Polynomials in Free Variables
11:15-11:45am	José R. Carrión (Penn State University) Local embeddability of groups and quasidiagonality
12:00-12:30pm	Zhengwei Liu (Vanderbilt University) (Slides) Noncommutative uncertainty principles
12:30-2:00pm	Lunch Break
2:00-2:30pm	Martino Lupini (York University) The classification problem for separable operator systems
Contributed Talks
2:40-3:00pm	Andre Kornell (UC Berkeley) V-algebras* Maria Grazia Viola (Lakehead University) Coauthors: N. Cristopher Phillips Classification of L^p AF algebras
3:10-3:30pm	Scott Atkinson (University of Virginia) (Slides) Convex Sets Associated to C-Algebras* Yanli Song (University of Toronto) Localization of K-Homology Fundamental Class

Confirmed Participants

Full Name University/Affiliation

Aguilar, Konrad University of Denver

Allahabad Liang, Bingbing SUNY at Buffalo

Atkinson, Scott University of Virginia

Belinschi, Serban Queen's University

Brown, Nathanial Pennsylvania State University

Carrion, Jose Penn State University

Choi, Man-Duen University of Toronto

Dadarlat, Marius Purdue University

Davidson, Ken University of Waterloo

Dumitrascu, Dorin University of Arizona

Eagle, Christopher University of Toronto

Fathizadeh, Farzad University of Western Ontario

Goldbring, Isaac University of Illinois at Chicago

Hardy, Stephen University of Virginia

Hung, Tsz Fun University at Buffalo

Katz, Alexander A. St. John's University

Kleski, Craig Miami University

Kornell, Andre UC Berkeley

Latremoliere, Frederic University of Denver

Li, Hanfeng SUNY at Buffalo

Liu, Zhengwei Vanderbilt University

Luo, Yixian University at Buffalo-SUNY

Lupini, Martino York University

McKenney, Paul Miami University

Ostergaard, Andrew Kansas State University

Pitts, David University of Nebraska--Lincoln

Robert, Leonel University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Shlyakhtenko, Dimitri University of California, Los Angeles

Tasic, Vladimir University of New Brunswick

Viola, Maria Grazia Lakehead University

Wang, Kun The Fields Institute