44th Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and their Applications (COSy)

June 13-17, 2016

Program
 

Monday, June 13, 2016
08:45 - 09:15
Registration and Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) Atrium


Meeting room(s) : 1035

09:15 - 10:00
Matthew Kennedy
(University of Waterloo)
Boundaries and C*-simplicity for discrete groups - I
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Narutaka Ozawa
(Kyoto University)
A functional analysis proof of Gromov's polynomial growth theorem - I
Abstract
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
11:00 - 11:30
James A. Mingo
(Queen's University )
Higher notions of freeness
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Aki Kishimoto
(Hokkaido University)
Ergodic extensions
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Berndt Brenken
(University of Calgary)
Implementing a ccp map with a partial isometry
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Ian F. Putnam
(University of Victoria, PIMS)
A Bratteli-Vershik model for Cantor minimal $Z^2$ actions
Abstract
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium

Session - Contributed talks
Meeting room(s) : 1035

15:15 - 15:25
Christopher Ramsey
(University of Manitoba)
Crossed product constructions in operator algebra theory
Abstract
15:25 - 15:35
Mahmood Alaghmandan
(Chalmers University of Technology)
Regular bounded Borel measures as completely bounded multipliers on $B(L^2(G))$
Abstract
15:35 - 15:45
Rasmus Sylvester Bryder
(University of Copenhagen)
Reduced twisted crossed products over C*-simple groups
Abstract
15:45 - 15:55
Cristian Ivanescu
(MacEwan University)
The Cuntz semigroup of the tensor product of C*-algebras
Abstract
15:55 - 16:05
Raphaël Clouâtre
(University of Manitoba)
Representations of multiplier algebras of complete Pick spaces on the ball
Abstract
16:05 - 16:15
Yosafat Pangalela
(University of Otago)
Every Toeplitz algebra of a higher-rank graph is isomorphic to a Cuntz–Krieger algebra
Abstract
16:15 - 16:25
Adam Dor-On
(University of Waterloo)
Non-commutative Choquet boundary for graph tensor algebras
Abstract

 

Tuesday, June 14, 2016
08:45 - 09:15
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) Atrium


Meeting room(s) : 1035

09:15 - 10:00
Lewis Bowen
(University of Texas at Austin)
Introduction to sofic invariants
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Zhuang Niu
(University of Wyoming)
The classification of simple separable amenable C*-algebras - I
Abstract
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
11:00 - 11:30
David Kerr
(Texas A&M University)
Tower decompositions for free actions of amenable groups
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Makoto Yamashita
(Ochanomizu University)
Drinfeld center and representation theory for monoidal categories
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Maria Grazia Viola
(Lakehead University)
C*-algebras non-isomorphic to their opposite algebras and the Universal Coefficient Theorem
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Paul Skoufranis
(Texas A&M University)
A brief overview of bi-free probability
Abstract
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
15:15 - 16:00
Matthew Kennedy
(University of Waterloo)
Boundaries and C*-simplicity for discrete groups - II
Abstract

Session - Contributed talks
Meeting room(s) : 1035

16:05 - 16:15
Astrid an Huef
(University of Otago)
Toeplitz algebras of Baumslag-Solitar semigroups
Abstract
16:15 - 16:25
Michael Hartz
(University of Waterloo)
von~Neumann's inequality for commuting weighted shifts
Abstract
16:25 - 16:35
Lisa Orloff Clark
(University of Otago)
Can a principal groupoid C*-algebra be a Kirchberg algebra?
16:35 - 16:45
Nadia S. Larsen
(University of Oslo)
C*-algebras associated to right LCM semigroups
Abstract

 

Wednesday, June 15, 2016
08:45 - 09:15
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) Atrium


Meeting room(s) : 1035

09:15 - 10:00
Narutaka Ozawa
(Kyoto University)
A functional analysis proof of Gromov's polynomial growth theorem - II
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Lewis Bowen
(University of Texas at Austin)
The Weak Pinsker conjecture
Abstract
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
11:00 - 11:30
Nico Spronk
(University of Waterloo)
Toplogies, idempotents and ideals
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Hun Hee Lee
(Seoul National University)
Operator weak amenability of $L^1$-algebras of compact quantum groups
Abstract

Free afternoon

 

Thursday, June 16, 2016
08:45 - 09:15
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) Atrium


Meeting room(s) : 1035

09:15 - 10:00
Zhuang Niu
(University of Wyoming)
The classification of simple separable amenable C*-algebras - II
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Matthew Kennedy
(University of Waterloo)
Boundaries and C*-simplicity for discrete groups - III
Abstract
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
11:00 - 11:30
Aaron Tikuisis
(University of Aberdeen)
Quasidiagonality and amenability
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Thierry Giordano
(University of Ottawa)
An interesting class of free minimal actions on the Cantor set: the $\mathbb{Z}^d$-odometers
Abstract
12:00 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:00
Kenneth R. Davidson
(University of Waterloo)
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
15:15 - 16:00
Narutaka Ozawa
(Kyoto University)
A functional analysis proof of Gromov's polynomial growth theorem - III
Abstract

Session - Contributed talks
Meeting room(s) : 1035

16:05 - 16:15
Charles Starling
(University of Ottawa)
C*-algebras of partial isometries and amenability
Abstract
16:15 - 16:25
James Lutley
(University of Toronto)
The stable rank of diagonally constructed ASH algebras
Abstract
16:25 - 16:35
Michel Hilsum
(Université Paris Diderot)
K-homology and birational geometry
Abstract
16:35 - 16:45
Andrew J. Dean
(Lakehead University)
Classification of locally representable actions of finite dimensional quantum groups on AF C*-algebras
Abstract

 

Friday, June 17, 2016
08:45 - 09:15
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) Atrium


Meeting room(s) : 1035

09:15 - 10:00
Lewis Bowen
(University of Texas at Austin)
Cheeger constants and L^2 Betti numbers
Abstract
10:00 - 10:45
Zhuang Niu
(University of Wyoming)
The classification of simple separable amenable C*-algebras - III
Abstract
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium
11:00 - 11:30
Jane Panangaden
(McGill University)
Energy conservation, return to equilibrium and modular theory - Part 1
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Annalisa Panati
(McGill University)
Energy conservation, return to equilibrium and modular theory - Part 2
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30
Raphaël Ponge
(Seoul National University)
Cyclic homology of crossed-product algebras
Abstract
14:30 - 15:00
Alessandro Vignati
(York University)
Set theory and automorphisms of corona C*-algebras
Abstract
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee break
Room(s) Atrium

Session - Contributed talks
Meeting room(s) : 1035

15:15 - 15:25
Igor V. Nikolaev
(Fields Institute)
Cluster C*-algebras and knot polynomials
Abstract
15:25 - 15:35
Luiz Cordeiro
(University of Ottawa)
Hyperlinear and sofic equivalence relations
Abstract
15:35 - 15:45
David Pitts
(University of Nebraska)
Some remarks on minimal norms
Abstract
15:45 - 15:55
Konrad Aguilar
(University of Denver)
Quantum ultrametrics on AF algebras and the Gromov-Hausdorff propinquity
Abstract
15:55 - 16:05
Anamaria Savu
(University of Alberta)
Discrete solid-on-solid model
Abstract
16:05 - 16:15
Ping Wong Ng
(University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Real rank zero for purely infinite corona algebras
Abstract
16:15 - 16:25
Ilija Tolich
(University of Otago)
$C^*$-algebras generated by semigroups of partial isometries
Abstract
16:25 - 16:35
Matthew Wiersma
(University of Waterloo)
Constructions of exotic group C*-algebras
Abstract
16:35 - 16:45
Asia Majeed
(University of Manitoba)
Amenability on nest algebras
Abstract

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