Modern Trends in Operator Algebras Conference
UCLA Department of Mathematics will be hosting a conference "Modern Trends in Operator Algebras," March 25-29, 2023 organized by Sri Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Sorin Popa, and Dima Shlyakhtenko.
Speakers include: I. Chifan, A. Connes, M. Dadarlat, Priyanga Ganesan, B. Hayes, C. Houdayer, A. Ioana, D. Jekel, M. Junge, A. Kechris, M. Kennedy, M. Musat, N. Ozawa, J. Peterson, G. Pisier, M. Rieffel, M. Rørdam, D. Shlyakhtenko, S. Vaes, D. Voiculescu.
We will also use this occasion to honor the memory of Ed Effros. There will be a dinner in his honor on Sunday, March 26th.
Visitor information: the conference will be held at the UCLA Mathematics Department. In addition to several hotels in the UCLA area in Westewood, campus hotels include the UCLA Guesthouse and the Luskin Conference Center and Hotel.
This conference is supported by the Kristyn Yuki Takesaki Endowed Fund in Operator Algebras and NSF grants DMS-2054450 and DMS-1955812.
Conference Program
Abstracts of all talks (PDF). All talks are in room 6627 Mathematical Sciences. Please enter on the 5th floor other doors may be locked.
Saturday March 25
| 9:00-9:40 | Alain Connes | Operator systems, spectral truncation and tolerance relations |
| 10:00-10:40 | Stefaan Vaes | Measure equivalence embeddings of free groups and free group factors |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-11:50 |
Magdalena Musat |
Infinite dimensional phenomena in the analysis of Quantum Information Theory |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 2:30-3:10 | Marius Dadarlat | A generalized Dixmier-Douady theory and applications |
| Coffee break | ||
| 3:50-4:30 | Alekos Kechris | The compact action realization problem |
Sunday March 26
| 9:00-9:40 | Gilles Pisier |
From local to global lifting? The tensor product viewpoint. |
| 10:00-10:40 | Adrian Ioana | Wreath-like product groups and rigidity of their von Neumann algebras. |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-11:50 | Ionut Chifan | Wreath-like product groups and rigidity of their von Neumann algebras, II |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 2:30-3:10 | Eleanor Rieffel | Wigner’s friend inequalities; theory, experimental prospects, and open questions |
| Coffee break | ||
| 3:50-4:30 | Marius Junge | From noncommutative geometry to complexity |
Dinner at Luskin Conference Center 6pm (by prior registration only)
Monday March 27
| 9:00-9:40 | Dan Voiculescu | Quasicentral modulus as a noncommutative nonlinear condenser capacity and some semi-finite thoughts |
| 10:00-10:40 | Ben Hayes | A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-11:50 | Sorin Popa | Non-isomorphism of A^{*n}, 2 ≤ n ≤ ∞, for a non-separable abelian W*-algebra A |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 2:30-3:10 | David Jekel | Uniformly Super McDuff II_1 Factors |
| Coffee break | ||
| 3:50-4:30 | Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli | An exotic full factor |
Tuesday March 28
| 9:00-9:40 | Cyril Houdayer | The noncommutative factor theorem for lattices in product groups |
| 10:00-10:40 | Priyanga Ganesan | Quantum graphs and colorings |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:10-11:50 | Jesse Peterson | Biexact von Neumann algebras |
| Lunch Break | ||
| 2:30-3:10 | Dima Shlyakhtenko | Estimates on free entropy dimension |
| Coffee break | ||
| 3:50-4:30 | Narutaka Ozawa |
Kazhdan's property (T) for Aut(F_n) and EL_n(R) |
Wednesday March 29
| 9:00-9:40 | Marc Rieffel | Convergence of Fourier truncations for compact quantum groups |
| 10:00-10:40 | Mikael Rordam | Popa’s averaging property for automorphisms on C*-algebras |
| 11:10-11:50 | Matt Kennedy | Noncommutative Choquet Theory and Noncommutative Majorization |