SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Overview

From January to June 2014, the Fields Institute held the vibrant 2014 Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras.

The Retrospective Meeting will be held in August 2015 at the Fields Institute. This conference on Banach Algebras and Applications, capturing the overarching tenor of the Thematic Program, will at the same time be the 23rd meeting of the conference series on Banach Algebras, the most important scientific event in the Banach algebras community.

 

 

Plenary Speakers

David Blecher, University of Houston, USA
Yemon Choi, Lancaster University, UK
H. Garth Dales, Lancaster University, UK
Kenneth R. Davidson, University of Waterloo
Ilijas Farah, York University
Brian Forrest, University of Waterloo
Fereidoun Ghahramani, University of Manitoba
Mehrdad Kalantar, IMPAN, Poland
Christian LeMerdy, Universite de Franche-Comte, France
N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon
Tom Ransford, Laval University
Charles Read, University of Leeds, UK
Volker Runde, University of Alberta
Juris Steprans, York University
Ami Viselter, University of Haifa

 

 

Themes

Theme 1: Group Structure, Group Actions and Ergodic Theory

Theme 2: C*-Algebras and Dynamical Systems

Theme 3: Banach and Operator Algebras over Groups

Theme 4: Operator Spaces, Locally Compact Quantum Groups and Amenability

 

Registration & Funding Support

Online registration has now closed, but registration on-site during the Meeting will be available.

Regular registration rate: $300; graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty/researchers without grant:$120.

To be considered for financial support, please complete the Funding Application Form (part of registration form, above). The deadline to apply for financial support is July 1, 2015.

 

 

Deadlines

Deadline to apply for funding support: July 1, 2015

Deadline to submit an abstract: July 1, 2015

Deadline to register online: July 28, 2015

 

 

Schedule

Tuesday, August 4

9.00 - 9.30		Registration
9.30 - 10.20		Kenneth R. Davidson, University of Waterloo Duality, convexity and peak interpolation in Drury-Arveson space
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Nico Spronk, University of Waterloo Commuting contractive idempotents in measure algebras
11.30 - 11.50		Paul Skoufranis, Texas A&M University Closed Convex Hulls of Unitary Orbits in C$^*$-Algebras of Real Rank Zero
12.00 - 2.00		Lunch
2.00 - 2.50		Mehrdad Kalantar, IMPAN, Poland Hamana boundary of $\ell^1$-algebra of discrete (quantum) groups
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		John T. Anderson, College of the Holy Cross A Peak-Point Theorem for Uniform Algebras on Real-Analytic Varieties
4.00 - 4.20		Sukumar Daniel, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Biggest open ball in invertible elements of a Banach algebra
4.30 - 4.50		Richard Skillicorn, Lancaster University Splittings of Extensions of Banach Algebras

Wednesday, August 5

9.30 - 10.20		Tom Ransford, Université Laval A Gleason-Kahane-Zelazko theorem for modules and applications to holomorphic function spaces
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Kathryn Hare, University of Waterloo The smoothness of orbital measures on classical simple Lie algebras
11.30 - 11.50		Alexander J. Izzo, Bowling Green State University Function spaces invariant under group actions
12.00 - 2.00		Lunch
2.00 - 2.50		Fereidoun Ghahramani, University of Manitoba State of the art in generalized notions of amenability
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		Matthew Wiersma, University of Waterloo Weak* tensor products for von Neumann algebras
4.00 - 4.20		Rachid El Harti, University Hassan I Morocco Numerical range of adjointable operators on a Hilebert C*-module and application to problem of positivity preserving linear maps of C*-algebras.
4.30 - 4.50		Arezou Valadkhani Amenable Cores for a Banach algebra
5.00 - 5.20		Linda Mawhinney, Queen's University Belfast Inductive limits of operator systems

Thursday, August 6

9.30 - 10.20		N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon An invitation to operator algebras on L^p spaces
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Hun Hee Lee, Seoul National University Spectra of weighted Fourier algebras on non-compact Lie groups: the case of the Euclidean motion group
11.30 - 11.50		Michael Skeide,Università degli Studi del Molise CPH-Semigroups
12.00 - 2.00		Lunch
2.00 - 2.50		Yemon Choi, Lancaster University Derivations on semigroup algebras and Fourier algebras
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		Bartosz Kwasniewski, Southern University of Denmark Purely infinite $C^*$-algebras associated to Fell bundles over discrete groups
4.00 - 4.20		Lourdes Palacios, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa Multipliers and Perfectness in Topological Algebras
4.30 - 4.50		Sam Morley,University of Nottingham Homomorphisms of Bland-Feinstein Algebras

Friday, August 7

9.30 - 10.20		David Blecher Generalizing C*-techniques to Banach and operator algebras
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Ebrahim Samei, University of Saskatchewan Weak amenability of the Fourier algebra of a Lie group
11.30 - 11.50		Michael Hartz, University of Waterloo Classification of multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces
12.00 - 2.00		Lunch
2.00 - 2.50		Brian Forrest, University of Waterloo Ideals in the Fourier Algebra and Related Algebras
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		Grazia Viola, Lakehead University Spatial $L^p$ AF algebra
4.00 - 4.20		Mahmood Alaghmandan, University of Waterloo On projections in the group algebra of unimodular groups
4.30 - 4.50		Renat Gumerov, Kazan Federal University Weierstrass polynomials over compact groups
5:00 - 5:20		Rupert Levene, University College Dublin Schur idempotents and hyperreflexivity

Saturday, August 8

9.30 - 10.20		Charles Read, University of Leeds The Algebra of Germs and the Invariant Subspace Problem
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Timur Oikhberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A non-commutative analogue of (almost) band preserving operators
11.30 - 11.50		Jean Esterle, University of Bordeaux Cosine families close to bounded scalar cosine families
12.00 - 2.00		Lunch
2.00 - 2.50		Ami Viselter, University of Haifa Weak mixing for locally compact quantum groups
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		Heinrich Raubenheimear, University of Johannesburg The index for Fredholm elements in a Banach algebra via a trace II
4.00 - 4.20		Sutanu Roy, University of Ottawa Faithful actions of locally compact quantum groups on classical spaces
4.30 - 4.50		Hongfei Yang, University of Nottingham Classicalisation of Swiss cheese sets

Sunday, August 9

Free day

Monday, August 10

9.30 - 10.20		Christian LeMerdy, Universite de Franche-Comte Bilinear Schur products and second order perturbation of functional calculus
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Joel Feinstein, University of Nottingham Regularity points and Jensen measures for $R(X)$
11.30 - 11.50		Hung Le Pham, Victoria University of Wellington When a subalgebra of the Fourier algebra is the whole algebra?
12.00 - 2.00		Lunch
2.00 - 2.50		H. Garth Dales, Lancaster University Banach function algebras and BSE norms
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		Tomasz Cias, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Characterization of commutative subalgebras of the algebra of smooth operators
4.00 - 4.20		Miad Makareh Shireh On generalized notions of operator amenability for Fourier algebras
4.30 - 4.50		Ur Koumba, University of Johannesburg On Riesz Operators
5:00 - 5:20		Yong Zhang, University of Manitoba Weak amenability of central Beurling algebras

Tuesday, August 11

9.30 - 10.20		Iljas Farah, York University Representations of C*-algebras and set theory
10.30 - 11.00		Break
11.00 - 11.20		Niels Laustsen, Lancaster University Ideal structure of the algebra of bounded operators acting on a Banach space
11.30 - 11.50		Jason Crann, Carleton University and University of Lille 1 Closed quantum subgroups of amenable quantum groups are amenable
12.00 - 1.15		Lunch
1.15-2:00		Problem Session
2.00 - 2.50		Juris Steprans, York University Arens products and descriptive set theory
3.00 - 3.30		Break
3.30 - 3.50		Krysztof Piszczek, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Grothendieck Inequality in the noncommutative Schwartz space
4.00 - 4.20		Hakimeh Mahyar, Kharazmi University Compactness of weighted composition operators on Lipschitz spaces
4.30 - 4.50		Oluwatosin T. Mewomo, University of Kwazulu-Natal On character amenability of semigroup algebras
5:00 - 5:20		Safoura Jafar-Zadeh, University of Manitoba Isometric isomorphisms of Beurling algebras

End of Conference

 

 

Participants List

Mahmood Alaghmandan, University of Waterloo
John Anderson, College of the Holy Cross
David Blecher, University of Houston
Yemon Choi, Lancaster University
Tomasz Cias, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Jason Crann, Carleton Universtity/University of Lille 1
Garth Dales, Lancaster University
Sukumar Daniel, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Kenneth Davidson, University of Waterloo
Jean Esterle, Université de Bordeaux
Åse Fahlander, Chalmers University of Technology
Joel Feinstein, The University of Nottingham
Brian Forrest, University of Waterloo
Racher Gerhard, University of Salzburg
Fereidoun Ghahramani, University of Manitoba
Michael Hartz, University of Waterloo
Zhiguo Hu, University of Windsor
Alexander Izzo, Bowling Green State University
Safoura Jafar-Zadeh, University of Manitoba
Mehrdad Kalantar, IMPAN-Warsaw
Tomasz Kania, Lancaster University
Matthew Kennedy, University of Waterloo
Ur Armand Koumba, University of Johannesburg
Bartosz Kwasniewski, Southern University of Denmark
Anthony To-Ming Lau, University of Alberta
Niels Laustsen, Lancaster University
Christian Le Merdy, University of Franche-Comte
Hun Hee Lee, Seoul National University
Rupert Levene, University College Dublin
Hakimeh Mahyar, Kharazmi University
Hakimeh Mahyar, Kharazmi University
miad makareh shireh, University of Manitoba
Mohammad Reza Mardanbeigi, Islamic Azad University
Linda Mawhinney, Queen's University Belfast
Mostafa Mbekhta, Universite Lille 1
Arthur Mehta, U Waterloo
Christopher Menez, Lancaster University
Oluwatosin Mewomo, University of Kwazulu-Natal
Sam Morley, University of Nottingham
Matthias Neufang, Carleton University
Timur Oikhberg, University of Illinois
Lourdes Palacios, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
Hung Pham, Victoria University of Wellington
Krzysztof Piszczek, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Thomas Ransford, Université Laval
Heinrich Raubenheimer, University of Johannesburg
Charles Read, University of Leeds
Sutanu Roy, University of Ottawa / Carleton University
Ebrahim Samei, University of Saskatchewan
Kyle Schlitt, University of Alberta
Bert Schreiber, Wayne State University
Carlos J Signoret, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Michael Skeide, Università degli Studi del Molise
Richard Skillicorn, Lancaster University
Paul Skoufranis, Texas A&M University
Nico Spronk, University of Waterloo
Zsolt Tanko, University of Alberta
Anthony To-Ming Lau, University of Alberta
Vladimir Troitsky, University of Alberta
Arezou Valadkhani
Maria Grazia Viola, Lakehead University
Ami Viselter, University of Haifa
Jared White, University of Lancaster
Matthew Wiersma, University of Waterloo
Dilian Yang, University of Windsor
Hongfei Yang, University of Nottingham

 

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