Workshop on Operator Spaces and Quantum Groups

December 11 - 15, 2007, The Fields Institute

Schedule

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee/Welcoming remarks
09:00 to 09:50	Classification of hyperfinite factors up to completely bounded isomorphisms of their preduals Uffe Haagerup (University of Southern Denmark) Location:The Fields Institute
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:00	Noncommutative H^1 and BMO spaces Tao Mei (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 11:45	Representations of Banach algebras as algebras of completely bounded maps Timur Oikhberg (University of California, Irvine) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	The Effros-Ruan conjecture for bilinear forms on C¤-algebras Magdalena Musat (University of Memphis) Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 to 15:45	Morita type equivalences for dual operator algebras Georgios Eleftherakis (University of Athens) Location:The Fields Institute
16:00 to 17:00	Reception

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:50	Twisting of locally compact quantum groups. Deformation of the Haar measure Leonid Vainerman (University of Caen) Location:The Fields Institute
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:00	Reiter's property (P_1) for locally compact quantum groups Volker Runde (University of Alberta) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 11:45	Operator Spaces and Ideals in the Fourier Algebra Brian Forrest (University of Waterloo) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	On the Heisenberg double Piotr Soltan (University of Warsaw) Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 to 15:45	Quantum compactifications of the Fourier algebra Matthew Daws (University of Leeds) Location:The Fields Institute
16:00 to 16:30	Multipliers and the second dual of a Banach algebra Zhiguo Hu (University of Windsor) Location:The Fields Institute

Thursday, December 13th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:50	Dilations on noncommutative Lp-spaces Christian LeMerdy (University of Franche-Comté) Location:The Fields Institute
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:00	Finite dimensional subspaces of noncommutative L_p spaces Hun Hee Lee (University of Waterloo) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 11:45	Generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semi-groups on stratified groups Françoise Lust-Piquard (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Mixed-norm inequalities and a transference method Javier Parcet (CSIC) Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 to 15:45	Convolutions on compact groups and Fourier algebras of coset spaces Nico Spronk (University of Waterloo) Location:The Fields Institute
16:00 to 16:50	Embedding problems for subspaces of Lp Marius Junge (University of Chicago, Urbana-Champaign) Location:The Fields Institute

Friday, December 14th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:50	Boundaries of discrete quantum groups Stefaan Vaes (K.U.Leuven) Location:The Fields Institute
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:00	Poisson boundaries of random walks on duals of q-deformed classical compact Lie groups Reiji Tomatsu (University of Tokyo) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 11:45	Extensions of Fourier algebra homomorphisms Monica Ilie (Lakehead University) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:50	Quantum subgroups of a simple quantum group at roots of 1 Gastón García (Ciudad Universitaria) Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 to 15:45	TBA Khye Loong Yew (University of Toronto) Location:The Fields Institute
16:00 to 16:30	Operator space methods for operator algebras David Blecher (University of Houston) Location:The Fields Institute

Saturday, December 15th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:50	Completely 1-summing maps between some homogeneous Hilbertian operator spaces Quanhua Xu (University of Franche-Comté) Location:The Fields Institute
10:00 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 10:45	Law of the Iterated Logarithm in Noncommutative Probability Spaces Malgorzata Konwerska (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Location:The Fields Institute
11:00 to 11:50	On a class of II_1 factors with at most one Cartan subalgebra Narutaka Ozawa (University of California, Los Angeles) Location:The Fields Institute

Marius Junge - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Matthias Neufang - Carleton University

Vern Paulsen - University of Waterloo

Gilles Pisier - Texas A&M University

Zhong-Jin Ruan - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign