Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto
Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto
Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto
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Operator Algebras Thematic Program: July 2004–June <strong>2005</strong><br />
Organizer: George A. Elliott (<strong>Fields</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> and <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
The Operator Algebras Thematic Program began in 1996<br />
(after a two-year major program in the same subject) and<br />
has continued since then. During the 2004-05 year, five<br />
postdoctoral fellows participated in the program: Xiaodong<br />
Hu, Cristian Ivanescu, Hanfeng Li, Frédéric Latrémolière,<br />
and Anamaria Savu. There were also thirteen students<br />
involved with the program: seven Ph.D. students - Alin<br />
Ciuperca, Kris Coward, Toan Minh Ho, Zhuang Niu,<br />
Brian Pigott, Leonel Robert, and Luis Santiago; two M.Sc.<br />
students - Michael Bailey and Greg Maloney; and four<br />
undergraduate research assistants - Branimir Cacic, Nadish<br />
DeSilva, Lloyd Elliott, and Brandon Lee.<br />
Several mathematicians visited for shorter periods. In particular,<br />
Ola Bratteli (Oslo) and Andrew Toms (UNB) visited<br />
for a month after the <strong>Fields</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> Summer School in<br />
Operator Algebras and the Canadian Operator Symposium<br />
held at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Ottawa from June 7 to 24.<br />
A regular working seminar was held, usually meeting on<br />
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for three or four hours,<br />
and concerned mainly with operator algebras and noncommutative<br />
geometry. One subject considered in some detail<br />
was the structure and classification <strong>of</strong> amenable C*-algebras.<br />
As an <strong>of</strong>fshoot <strong>of</strong> the program, a group <strong>of</strong> about ten high<br />
school students was supervised during weekly meetings<br />
under the auspices <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Toronto</strong> Arts and<br />
Science Mentorship Program. This was carried out by the<br />
following graduate students: Kris Coward, Zhuang Niu,<br />
Brian Pigott, and Leonel Robert (co-ordinator).<br />
Ontario Non-Commutative Geometry and Operator<br />
Algebras Seminar<br />
July 2004–June <strong>2005</strong><br />
Speakers:<br />
Alin Ciuperca (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Kris Coward (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Thierry Giordano (Ottawa)<br />
Dynamical systems and C*-algebras<br />
T h e m a t i c P r o g r a m s<br />
George Elliott<br />
Toan Ho (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Cristian Ivanescu (<strong>Fields</strong>)<br />
David Kerr (Tokyo & Texas A&M)<br />
Topology and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence<br />
Frederic Latremoliere (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Hanfeng Li (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Banach space dynamical entropy<br />
Zhuang Niu (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Brian Pigott (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Sarah Reznik<strong>of</strong>f (Victoria)<br />
Hilbert space representations<br />
Leonel Robert (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Anamaria Savu (<strong>Toronto</strong>)<br />
Andrew Toms (New Brunswick)<br />
<strong>Fields</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>2005</strong> ANNUAL REPORT 34
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