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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1096

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras

• Wednesday January 15, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras, I
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
  David Penneys, University of Toronto dpenneys@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Perturbation Problems for Subfactors.
    Alan D Wiggins*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    (1096-46-1002)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Brauer-Picard groupoid of the Asaeda-Haagerup subfactor.
    Pinhas Grossman, University of New South Wales
    Masaki Izumi, Kyoto University
    Noah Snyder*, Indiana University
    (1096-46-603)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Composed inclusions of subfactors.
    Zhengwei Liu*, Vanderbilt
    (1096-47-260)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Guionnet, Jones, and Shlyakhtenko $C^*$ algebras.
    Michael Hartglass*, University of Iowa
    (1096-19-201)
• Wednesday January 15, 2014, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras, II
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
  David Penneys, University of Toronto dpenneys@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Unitary equivalence to Jordan models for weak contractions of class $C_0$.
    Raphael Clouatre*, University of Waterloo
    (1096-47-443)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Analytic Function Theory for Operator-Valued Free Probability.
    John D. Williams*, Texas A&M University
    (1096-47-444)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Finite Factor Representations of Higman-Thompson Groups.
    Konstantin Medynets*, United States Naval Academy
    Artem Dudko, Stony Brook University
    (1096-20-472)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Inner amenability for groups and central sequences in factors.
    Bogdan Teodor Udrea*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
    Thomas Sinclair, University of California at Los Angeles
    (1096-46-1081)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Stabilizers of Ergodic Actions of Lattices.
    Darren Creutz*, Vanderbilt University
    (1096-37-145)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Extended von Neumann dimension for sofic groups and equivalence relations.
    Ben R Hayes*, University of California Los Angeles
    (1096-46-2011)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras, III
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
  David Penneys, University of Toronto dpenneys@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nuclearity for $C^*$-algebras with real rank zero.
    Nicola Watson*, University of Toronto
    (1096-47-1613)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Upper triangular forms for elements of finite von Neumann algebras.
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Fedor Sukochev, University of New South Wales
    Dmitriy Zanin, University of New South Wales
    (1096-46-1779)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The structure of simple operator algebras.
    Nate Brown*, Penn State
    (1096-46-1607)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Results on Nuclearity and Exactness for Groupoid Crossed Product $C^*$-algebras.
    Scott M. LaLonde*, Dartmouth College
    (1096-47-1709)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The effect of homotopies of groupoid 2-cocycles on $C^*$-algebraic $K$-theory.
    Elizabeth A. Gillaspy*, Dartmouth College
    (1096-19-1825)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Crossed products and MF algebras.
    Weihua Li*, Columbia College Chicago
    Stefanos Orfanos, DePaul University
    (1096-46-34)