Workshop on Structure of C*-Algebras in honour of the 60th birthdays of Ola Bratteli and Akitaka Kishimoto

November 12 - 16, 2007, The Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, November 12th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee/Welcoming remarks
09:00 to 09:45	Towards Z-stability of direct limits of recursive subhomogeneous C-algebras Christopher Phillips (University of Oregon) Location:*The Fields Institute
09:45 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 11:00	No Title Specified Bruce Blackadar (University of Nevada, Reno) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 12:00	K-theoretic fibrations (based on joint work with Herve Oyono-Oyono and Ryszard Nest) Siegfried Echterhoff (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:45	Metric space associated with tracial C-algebras Nate Brown (Pennsylvania State University) Location:*The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:45	Geometrization of Strong Novikov conjecture for residually finite groups Guihua Gong (University of Puerto Rico) Location:The Fields Institute
15:45 to 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 to 17:00	Purely infinite C-algebras of real rank zero Cornel Pasnicu (University of Puerto Rico) Location:*The Fields Institute
17:00 to 18:00	Reception

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:45	Semiprojectivity of non-commutative CW-complexes Søren Eilers (University of Copenhagen) Location:The Fields Institute
09:45 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 11:00	Computing Kirchberg’s bivariant K-theory Ralf Meyer (Universität Göttingen) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 12:00	On the homoclinic and heteroclinic C-algebras of expansive dynamical systems Klaus Thomsen (Aarhus University) Location:*The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:45	Localizing the Elliott conjecture Wilhelm Winter (University of Nottingham) Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:45	Continued Fractions and Operator Algebras Florin Boca (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Location:The Fields Institute
15:45 to 16:15	Coffee Break
16:00 to 16:45	A Complete Classification of AI algebras And AC Structure of AH algebras with ideal property Chunlan Jiang (Hebei Normal University) Location:The Fields Institute
18:00	Banquet

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:45	Classification Z2 actions on the Kirchberg algebras Masaki Izumi (Kyoto University) Location:The Fields Institute
09:45 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 11:00	MASAs, tensor products and the extension property Simon Wassermann (University of Glasgow) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 12:00	Representing abstract semigroups as semigroups of projections of C-algebras Francesc Perera (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Location:*The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:45	The homotopy groups of the automorphism group of Kirchberg algebras Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:45	Applications of the Elliott program Huaxin Lin, University of Oregon Location:The Fields Institute
15:45 to 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 to 17:00	Topological vs. Matricial dimension in C-algebras Andrew Toms, Purdue University Location:*The Fields Institute

Thursday, November 15th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:45	Dynamics and perforation David Kerr (Texas A&M University) Location:The Fields Institute
09:45 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 11:00	Weak amenability of hyperbolic groups Narutaka Ozawa (University of California, Los Angeles) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 12:00	K-Morphs Alex Kumjian (University of Nevada) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:45	The Jiang-Su algebra revisited Mikael Rørdam, University of Copenhagen Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:45	Strong ``UCT'' classes of non-simple C-algebras Eberhard Kirchberg, Humboldt University of Berlin Location:*The Fields Institute
15:45 to 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 to 17:00	Finite group actions on the Jiang-Su algebra Ilan Hirshberg (Ben Gurion University) Location:The Fields Institute
17:15 to 18:00	Is classification a chimera? George Elliott (University of Toronto) Location:The Fields Institute

Friday, November 16th, 2007
08:30 to 09:00	Morning Coffee
09:00 to 09:45	Hecke C-algebras of semidirect products and KMS-states Nadia Larsen (University of Oslo) Location:*The Fields Institute
09:45 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 11:00	Generic automorphisms of approximately divisible AF algebras satisfy the Rohlin property Takeshi Katsura (University of Toronto) Location:The Fields Institute
11:15 to 12:00	Z2 - actions on UHF algebras Hiroki Matui (Chiba University) Location:The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 to 14:45	Proper infiniteness and K_1 injectivity (joint work with R. Rohde and M. Rordam) Etienne Blanchard (Institut de Math de Jussieu) Location:The Fields Institute
15:00 to 15:45	No Title Specified Zhuang Niu (University of Calgary) Location:The Fields Institute
15:45 to 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 to 17:00	Cuntz semi group of ideals and quotients and a generalized kasparov stabilization theorem Leonel Robert (Fields Institute) Location:The Fields Institute

Marius Dadarlat - Purdue University

Eberhard Kirchberg - Humboldt University of Berlin

Huaxin Lin - University of Oregon

Ian Putnam - University of Victoria

Mikael Rørdam - University of Copenhagen

Andrew Toms - Purdue University