Participants List
Please find the list of all participants registered for WCOAS 2014, organized in three sections: speakers, including presentation information, scientific committee, local organizer, and other participants.
Speakers
Gene Abrams, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
| Research Area: | noncommutative rings and their categories of modules, Leavitt path algebras |
| Talk Title: | An introduction to Leavitt path algebras, with connections to C$^*$-algebras and noncommutative geometry |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 3:00pm |
Heath Emerson, University of Victoria
| Research Area: | Operator algebras, index theory, hyperbolic groups |
| Talk Title: | Poincare duality for C*-algebras and applications |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 10:00am |
Shane Farnsworth, Perimeter Institute
| Research Area: | Cosmology,Mathematical Physics,Particle Physics |
| Talk Title: | Rethinking Connes' approach to the standard model of particle physics via non-commutative geometry |
| Talk Schedule: | Sunday 11/2, 09:00am |
Eusebio Gardella, University of Oregon
| Research Area: | C*-algebras, noncommutative dynamics. |
| Talk Title: | Rigidity results for L^p-operator algebras. |
| Talk Schedule: | Sunday 11/2, 11:00am |
Brent Nelson, UCLA
| Research Area: | Free probability |
| Talk Title: | Free monotone transport without a trace |
| Talk Schedule: | Sunday 11/2, 12:00pm |
Tron Omland, Arizona State University
| Research Area: | Group C*-algebras |
| Talk Title: | On simplicity and uniqueness of trace for reduced twisted group $C^*$-algebras |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 11:00am |
Raphael Ponge, Seoul National University/UC Berkeley
| Research Area: | Noncommutative Geometry |
| Talk Title: | Noncommutative geometry and conformal geometry: local index formula and conformal invariants. |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 2:00pm |
Karen Strung, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
| Research Area: | Classification of C*-algebras |
| Talk Title: | Classification of C*-algebras of minimal homeomorphisms on odd dimensional spheres |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 09:00am |
Ami Viselter, University of Alberta, Canada & University of Haifa, Israel
| Research Area: | Operator algebras, locally compact quantum groups |
| Talk Title: | On positive definiteness over locally compact quantum groups |
| Talk Schedule: | Sunday 11/2, 10:00am |
Rufus Willett, Univesity of Hawaii
| Research Area: | Index Theory |
| Talk Title: | Exotic Crossed Products |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 4:00pm |
Zhizhang Xie, Texas A&M
| Research Area: | K-theory of operator algebras, index theory, noncommutative geometry |
| Talk Title: | Higher Signature on Witt Spaces |
| Talk Schedule: | Saturday 11/1, 5:00pm |
Scientific Committee
Jerry Kaminker, University of California at Davis (Noncommutative Geometry)
Matilde Marcolli, California Institute of Technology (Noncommutative Geometry)
Chris Phillips, University of Oregon (Classification of C*-algebras)
Sorin Popa, University of California at Los Angeles (von Neumann Algebras)
Ian Putnam, University of Victoria (C*-dynamical Systems)
Marc Rieffel, University of California at Berkeley (Noncommutative Geometry)
Local Organizer
Frederic Latremoliere, University of Denver (Noncommutative Metric Geometry)
Participants
Konrad Aguilar, University of Denver (Noncommutative Geometry)
Alvaro Arias, University of Denver (operator theory and Banach spaces)
Bruce Blackadar, University of Nevada, Reno (C*-algebras)
Jeff Boersema, Seattle University, University of New Mexico (C*-Algebras and K-theory)
Trubee Davison, University of Colorado (Iterated Function Systems and Functional Analysis)
Geraldo De Souza, Auburn University (harmonic Analysis and Related areas)
Valentin Deaconu, UNR (Operator Algebras)
Dorin Dumitrascu, Adrian College (K-theory for C*-algebras, non-commutative geometry, geometric group thoery)
Adam Fuller, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Operator Algebras)
Elizabeth Gillaspy, University of Colorado - Boulder (Groupoid C*-algebras and their K-theory)
Philip Gipson, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln (C*-Algebras and C*-Modules)
Michael Hartglass, UC Riverside (Free Probability, Subfactors, Operator Algebras)
George Herrmann, University of Denver (Noncommutative Geometry)
Steve Kaliszewski, Arizona State University
Andre Kornell, UC Berkeley (noncommutative geometry)
Alex Kumjian, University of Nevada (Operator algebras)
Joseph Migler, University of Colorado, Boulder (K-theory, operator algebras)
Wonhee Na, Texas A&M (von Neumann algebra, Free probability theory)
Zhuang Niu, University of Wyoming (classification of C*-algebras)
Joseph Noles, Texas A&M University (Operator Algebras)
Patrick Orchard, Texas A&M University (C*-algebras)
Judith Packer, University of Colorado, Boulder (Functional and harmonic analysis)
Mira Peterka, University of Kansas (C*-Algebras/ Noncommutative Geometry)
N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon (Crossed product C*-algebras, L^p operator algebras)
Benjamin Purkis, Rhodes College (Projective Multiresolution Analyses)
John Quigg, Arizona State University (C*-algebras)
Timothy Rainone, Texas A&M University (C*-Algebras, Noncommutative Dynamics.)
Min Ro, University of Oregon (C*-algebras)
Travis Russell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Operator Spaces and Operator Systems)
Christopher Schafhauser, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (C*-Algebras, Graph Algebras)
Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University
Vardan Tepoyan, Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (C*-algebras)
Belisario Ventura, California State University San Bernardino (Opeartor Algebras)
Qingyun Wang, University of Toronto (C*-algebras and dynamics system)
farrokh razavinia, National Research University Higher School of Economics (quantum groups)
