THEMATIC PROGRAMS

Thematic Program on Operator Algebras
July-December, 2007

July 16 - 20, 2007
Workshop on Noncommutative Dynamics and Applications
Fields Institute

Organizing Committee

William Arveson (Berkeley)	Robert Powers (Pennsylvania)
B.V. Rajarama Bhat (ISI Bangalore)	Joachim Zacharias (Nottingham)
Remus Floricel (Regina)

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OVERVIEW
The workshop aims at bringing together people working in the general area of noncommutative dynamics, including topics like reversible and irreversible dynamics on operator algebras, products systems and their classification, quantum probability and connections with quantum information.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

L. Accardi, Universita di Roma ``Tor Vergata''	P. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
A. Alevras, Naval Academy, Annapolis	R. Kadison, University of Pennsylvania
M. Anshelevich, Texas A&M	C. Koestler, Carleton University
W. Arveson, UC Berkeley	D. Kribs, University of Guelph
B.V.R. Bhat, ISI Bangalore	B. Kummerer, TU Darmstadt
B. Brenken, University of Calgary	M. Laca, University of Victoria
N. Brown, Penn State	M. Lindsay, University of Lancaster
F. Cipriani, Politecnico di Milano	R. Longo, Universita di Roma ``Tor Vergata''
D. Courtney, UC Berkeley	D. Markiewicz, Technion - I.I.T.
K. Davidson, University of Waterloo	H. Osaka, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu
S. Dey, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitat	R. Powers, University of Pennsylvania
S. Doplicher, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza"	G. Price, US Naval Academy
D. Dutkay, University of Central Florida	I. Putnam, University of Victoria
D. Evans, Cardiff University	R. Srinivasan, Chennai Mathematical Institute
R. Exel, University of Santa Catarina	B. Solel, Technion - I.I.T.
R. Gohm, University of Reading	K. Sinha, ISI Kolkata
D. Goswami, ISI Kolkata	M. Skeide, Universita degli Studi del Molise
I. Hirshberg, Ben Gurion University	M. Takesaki, UCLA
M. Izumi, Kyoto University	B. Tsirelson, Tel Aviv University

 

SCHEDULE:

Monday, July 16 Speaker Abstracts
9:00 - 9:55	Luigi Accardi Quantum Markovianity: a survey
10:00 - 10:55	David Kribs Some Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Error Correction
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:15	Richard Kadison Means of Unitary Operators Revisited
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:55	Ruy Exel A new look at the Crossed-Product of a C*-algebra by a Semigroup of Endomorphisms
15:00 - 15:55	Marcelo Laca Symmetries and equilibrium in C-dynamical systems
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:25	Ian Putnam C*-algebras from hyperbolic dynamical systems
17:30 - 18:00	Dennis Courtney Lifting endomorphisms to automorphisms
18:00	Reception
Tuesday, July 17 Speaker Abstracts
9:00 - 9:55	Michael Skeide Products Systems and Quantum Dynamics
10:00 - 10:55	Boris Tsirelson Automorphisms of the type II Arveson system of Warren’s noise
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:15	Masaki Izumi Type III factors distinguish type III E0-semigroups
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:55	Geoffrey Price On some E0-semigroups induced from CP-flows
15:00 - 15:55	Robert Powers Comparison theory for E0-semigroups
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 16:55	Alexis Alevras Order and Equivalence of Endomorphism Semigroups
17:00 - 17:25	Daniel Markiewicz The Gauge Group of a Strongly Spatial E0-semigroup
17:30 - 17:55	Orr Shalit E0-dilation of a pair of strongly commuting CP0 semigroups
Wednesday, July 18 Speaker Abstracts
9:00 - 9:55	Nate Brown Toward the C*-classification of classical dynamical systems
10:00 - 10:55	Ilan Hirshberg Permanence properties of strongly self-absorbing C*-algebras
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:15	Hiroyuki Osaka Inclusion of C*-algebras
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:55	Baruch Solel Operator Algebras Associated with Unitary Commutation Relations
15:00 - 15:55	Rolf Gohm Characteristic Functions of Liftings and Applications to Completely Positive Maps
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:55	Santanu Dey Constrained Liftings
19:30	Banquet
On Wednesday, July 18, there will be a banquet at the Bright Pearl Restaurant (Chinese food). Dinner: 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale on Monday only @$35 each. Forms of payment: Cash, Visa or Master card only
Thursday, July 19 Speaker Abstracts
9:00 - 9:55	William Arveson The noncommutative Choquet boundary
10:00 - 10:55	Kalyan Sinha Quantum Dynamical Semigroups and their Stochastic Dilations
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:15	Fabio Cipriani Differential Calculus and Fredholm Modules on Dirichlet spaces
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:55	Kenneth Davidson Operator algebras for multivariable dynamics
15:00 - 15:55	Michael Anshelevich Free Meixner semigroups
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:25	Palle Jorgensen Uses of operator algebraic methods in dynamics and in wavelet algorithms
17:30 - 17:55	Dorin Dutkay Covariant representations in wavelet theory
Friday, July 20 Speaker Abstracts
9:00 - 9:55	David Evans Modular Invariants
10:00 - 10:55	Roberto Longo Real Hilbert Spaces, SL(2,R), Modular Theory and CFT
11:00 - 11:20	Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:15	Claus Koestler On endomorphisms of von Neumann algebras from braid group representations
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:55	Berndt Brenken Topological Quivers as Multiplicity Free Relations
15:00 - 15:25	Raman Srinivasan Generalized CCR Flows

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