Workshop on von Neumann Algebras

October 29 - November 2, 2007, The Fields Institute

Location: The Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, October 29th, 2007
09:00 to 09:20	Morning Coffee/Welcoming remarks
09:20 to 10:20	Some open problems on II_1 factors of group actions Sorin Popa, University of California, Los Angeles
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
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)
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:50	Group cocycles into the left regular representation and applications to II_1 factors Jesse Peterson (University of California, Berkeley)
15:00 to 15:50	Horn's inequalities and Connes' embedding problem Ken Dykema (Texas A&M University)
16:00 to 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 to 17:00	Embeddings into R^\omega Nate Brown (Pennsylvania State University)
17:10 to 17:40	Group cocycles and affiliated operators Andreas Thom (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
17:45 to 18:45	Reception

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
09:00 to 09:30	Morning Coffee
09:30 to 10:20	Solution of the Effros-Ruan conjecture for bilinear forms on C*-algebras Uffe Haagerup (University of Southern Denmark)
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Explicit computations of all finite index bimodules for a family of II_1 factors Stefaen Vaes (K.U.Leuven)
12:00 to 13:50	Lunch
13:50 to 14:40	Cocycle superrigidity for profinite actions of Kazhdan groups Adrian Ioana (Caltech)
14:50 to 15:20	Another construction of type II_1 factors with a prescribed countable fundamental group Cyril Houdayer (University of California, Los Angeles)
15:30 to 16:00	No Title Specified Ionut Chifan (University of California, Los Angeles)
16:00 to 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 to 17:00	CCR random matrix models with potential Dan Shiber (University of California, Los Angeles)
17:10 to 17:50	Non-existense of finite depth subfactors with certain small indices Marta Asaeda (University of California, Riverside)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
09:00 to 09:30	Morning Coffee
09:30 to 10:20	Superconformal field theory and operator algebras Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (University of Tokyo)
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Algebras of q-semicircular elements and free stochastic calculus Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:50	No Title Specified Kenley Jung (University of California, Los Angeles)
15:00 to 15:30	Constructing the Haagerup Subfactor with Planar Algebras Emily Peters (University of California, Berkeley)
15:40 to 16:10	The planar algebra of the group-type subfactors of Bisch and Haagerup Shamindra Ghosh (Vanderbilt University)
16:10 to 16:40	Coffee Break

Thursday, November 1st, 2007
09:00 to 09:30	Morning Coffee
09:30 to 10:20	No Title Specified Roland Speicher, Saarland University
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Subgroup type subfactors and twisted Kac-Moody algebras Hans Wenzl (University of California, San Diego)
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 14:50	Intermediate rank and property RD Mikael Pichot (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
15:00 to 15:50	Orbital free entropy and Its dimension counterpart Yoshimichi Ueda (Kyushu University)
16:00 to 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 to 17:00	Subfactors and Hadamard Matrices Remus Nicoara (University of Tennessee)

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
09:00 to 09:30	Morning Coffee
09:30 to 10:20	No Title Specified Thierry Giordano (University of Ottawa)
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 11:50	Classification of hyperfinite factors up to completely bounded isomorphism of their predual Magdalena Musat (University of Memphis)
11:40 to 12:30	No Title Specified Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche (Université d'Orléans)

Dietmar Bisch - Vanderbilt University

James Mingo - Queen's University

Narutaka Ozawa - Kyoto University and RIMS, Kyoto

Sorin Popa - University of California, Los Angeles

Dimitri Shlyakhtenko - University of California, Los Angeles

Roland Speicher - Saarland University