Conferences
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops |
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| ECOAS 15: The Thirteenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 3-4, 2015, University of Iowa
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| Future East Coast Operator Algebras Symposia (planned): ECOAS 16 at Loyola University Chicago (host: Emily Peters), ECOAS 17 at University of Louisiana, Lafayette (host: Ping Ng). |
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May 17-25, 2016
The Fourteenth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, University of Bonn
Topics: Von Neumann Algebras: Deformation/Rigidity, Free Probability
and Subfactors
| Director of the Fourteenth Spring Institute: Vaughan Jones
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones, Sorin Popa, Dima More Information: |
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ECOAS 16: The Fourteenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 1-2, 2016, Loyola University Chicago
| Organizing committee: Emily Peters.
Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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Past Conferences
May 1-7, 2015
The Thirteenth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, Vanderbilt
University
Topics: Operator Algebras and Approximation Properties of Groups
| Director of the Thirteenth Spring Institute: Vaughan Jones
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones, Jesse Peterson. More Information: |
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| First Joint Indiana University – Vanderbilt University Seminar
November 1, 2014, Vanderbilt University, SC 1432 Morning session (starting at 9:00 am): Vaughan Jones, VU: “All Unoriented Knots and Links Can Be Obtained from Thompsonʼs Group F”; Dylan Thurston, IU: “Rubber Bands to Rational Maps”; Yunxiang Ren, VU, “A New Skein Theory for One-Way Yang-Baxter and Petersen Graph.” Afternoon session (starting at 2:00 pm): Noah Snyder, IU: “A Symmetric Construction of the Asaeda–Haagerup Subfactor”; Matt Hogancamp, IU: “Planar Algebras for Soergel Bimodules”; Ben Hayes, VU: “Fuglede-Kadison Determinants and Sofic Entropy.” |
ECOAS 14: The Twelfth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 11-12, 2014, Fields Institute, Toronto
| Organizing committee: George Elliott, Ilijas Farah.
Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 2-8, 2014
The Twelfth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, Vanderbilt
University
Topics: Subfactors, Conformal Field Theory and Vertex Operator
Algebras
| Director of the Twelfth Spring Institute:Vaughan Jones
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones, Jesse Peterson. More Information: |
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October 26-27, 2013
DARPA & Shanks Workshop “Quantum Symmetries”, Vanderbilt
University
| Organizers: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones.
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ECOAS 13: The Eleventh East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 12-13, 2013, University of Cincinnati
| Organizing committee: Victor Kaftal, Costel Peligrad, Gary Weiss, Shuang Zhang (UC).
Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 3-9, 2013
The Eleventh Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, Vanderbilt
University
Topics: Index theory and K-theory
| Director of the Eleventh Spring Institute: Vaughan Jones
Organizing Committee: Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu. More Information: |
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ECOAS 12: The Tenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 6-7, 2012, UT Knoxville
| Organizing committee: Remus Nicoara (UT Knoxville).
Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 4-10, 2012
The Tenth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, Vanderbilt
University
Topics: Conformal Field Theory and von Neumann Algebras
| Directors of the Tenth Spring Institute: Alain Connes, Vaughan Jones
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones, Antony Wassermann. More Information: |
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Shanks workshop Conformal Field Theory and von Neumann Algebras
October 29-30, 2011, Vanderbilt University
| Organizing committee: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University). More information: |
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ECOAS 11: The Ninth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 15-16, 2011, Purdue University
| Organizing committee: Marius Dadarlat, Caleb Eckhardt, Andrew Toms (Purdue University). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 9 – 18, 2011
The Ninth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, Vanderbilt
University
Topics: Index theory and Hopf algebras
| Director of the Ninth Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, More Information: |
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October 30, 2010, Vanderbilt University
Appalachian set theory workshop:
Alekos Kechris : “The complexity of classification problems in ergodic theory”
| Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt), Ernest Schimmerling (Carnegie Mellon). More Information: |
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ECOAS 10: The Eighth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 23-24, 2010, Dartmouth College
| Organizing committee: Erik van Erp, Jody Trout, Dana Williams (Dartmouth College). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 10 – 19, 2010
The Eighth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute, Vanderbilt
University
Topics: Von Neumann algebras
| Director of the Eighth Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, More Information: |
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February 13 – 14, 2010
Shanks workshop Subfactors and Fusion Categories
| Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Richard Burstein. More Information: |
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ECOAS 09: The Seventh East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 24-25, 2009, Texas A&M University
| Organizing committee: Michael Anshelevich, Ken Dykema, David Kerr, Roger Smith (Texas A&M). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 4 – 13, 2009
The Seventh Annual NCGOA Spring Institute to be held at Vanderbilt University
Topics: Geometry over F1, Noncommutative Geometry
and Zeta
| Director of the Seventh Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, More Information: |
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ECOAS 08: The Sixth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 11-12, 2008, Penn State University
| Organizing committee: Nate Brown, Nigel Higson, John Roe (Penn State). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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May 15-18, 2008
Workshop: Noncommutative geometry and geometry over the field with
one element
| Organizers: Alain Connes (Vanderbilt, IHES, College de France), Katia Consani (Johns Hopkins), Matilde Marcolli (Max-Planck Insitute Bonn, FSU), Henri Moscovici (Ohio State). More information: |
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May 5 – 14, 2008
The Sixth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute to be held at Vanderbilt
University
Topics: KK-theory of operator algebras and Noncommutative Geometry
| Director of the Sixth Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, More Information: |
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April 18-20, 2008
Shanks workshop: Subfactors and Planar Algebras at Vanderbilt
| Organizers: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt), Shamindra Ghosh Vanderbilt), Pinhas Grossman (Vanderbilt). More information: |
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February 22, 2007
Workshop on Nil Phenomena in Topology, April 14 & 15, 2007
| The Workshop on Nil Phenomena in Topology will focus on several topics in the theory of surgery and manifold theory, such as splitting homotopy equivalences between manifolds, controlled topology and Bass’s Nil groups, calculation of Waldhausen’s Nil groups, calculation of Cappell’s UNil groups, the isomorphism conjectures, decomposition of Waldhausen’s A-theory, supersimple L-theory. It will be held in SC 4309. The workshop is supported by NSF and the Shanks Endowment of the Department of Mathematics. For more details click here. |
ECOAS 07: The Fifth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
September 29 – September 30, 2007, Wellesley College, Boston
| Organizing committee: Stanley Chang (Wellesley), Fred Shultz (Wellesley). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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The Fifth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras,
Topics: Index Theory, Hopf Cyclic Cohomology and Noncommutative Geometry
May 7-16, 2007, Vanderbilt University
| Director of the Fifth Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, |
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More Information:
Conference website.
ECOAS 06: The Fourth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
September 30 – October 1, 2006, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
| Organizing committee: Jean Bellissard (Georgia Tech).
Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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The Fourth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator
Algebras, Topics: Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Field Theory
and Motives
May 8-17, 2006, Vanderbilt University
| Mini-courses:
Alain Connes, Collège de France, IHES & Vanderbilt University Katia Consani, Johns Hopkins University & University of Toronto Herbert Gangl, Max-Planck-Institute Bonn Li Guo, Rutgers University Dirk Kreimer, IHES & Boston University Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck-Institute Bonn, Niranjan Ramachandran, University of Maryland Laura Reina, Florida State University |
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| Director of the Fourth Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, More Information: |
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ECOAS 05: The Third East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 1 & 2, 2005, University of Pennsylvania
| Organizing committee: Robert Powers (University of Pennsylvania) and Geoff Price (USNA). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), |
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The Third Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator
Algebras, in conjunction with the 20th Shanks lecture,
featuring Vaughan Jones (UC Berkeley) as the Shanks lecturer.
May 9-20, 2005, Vanderbilt University
| Mini-courses:
Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche, Université d’Orléans, Alain Connes, Collège de France, IHES & Vanderbilt University Uffe Haagerup, University of Southern Denmark (Odense), Vaughan Jones, UC Berkeley, Shanks Lecture: A Trip to the Subfactor Circus Mini-Coures: A Short Course in Planar Algebra Narutaka Ozawa, University of Tokyo and UCLA, Sorin Popa, UCLA, Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA, Dan Voiculescu, UC Berkeley, Feng Xu, UC Riverside, |
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| Director of the Third Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, More Information: |
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Fall 2004 Southeastern Section AMS Meeting
October 16-17, 2004, Vanderbilt University
| Invited Plenary Speakers: Ruth Charney (Brandeis University), Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University), Sorin Popa (UCLA) and Rudi Weikard (University of Alabama at Birmingham). |
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| Special Sessions in NCGOA:
Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic Theory. Organizers: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University) and Sorin Popa (UCLA). Invited Session Speakers: Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds. Organizers: Bruce Hughes and Guoliang Yu (both at Vanderbilt University). Invited Session Speakers: Operator Theory on Function Spaces. Organizer: Dechao Zheng (Vanderbilt University). |
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ECOAS 04: The 2nd East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
October 2-3, 2004, US Naval Academy, Annapolis
| Organizing committee: Alexis Alevras (USNA) and Geoff Price (USNA). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More information: |
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The Second Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras
May 15-25, 2004, Vanderbilt University
| Mini-courses:
Alain Connes, College de France, IHES and Vanderbilt University, Nigel Higson and John Roe, Penn State University, Masoud Khalkhali, University of Western Ontario, Hopf Algebras and Cyclic Cohomology Giovanni Landi, University of Trieste, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics Matilde Marcolli, Max Planck Institute (Bonn), Henri Moscovici, Ohio State University, Transverse Geometry and Modular Forms |
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| The 2nd Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras featured several mini-courses and research talks on noncommutative geometry (see conference web site for more details, including materials related to the talks). The conference/school was directed by Alain Connes. The organizing committee consisted of Dietmar Bisch, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu. More Information: |
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ECOAS 03: The First East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
September 20-21, 2003, Vanderbilt University
| Dietmar Bisch founded the East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium (ECOAS), a new yearly conference series in operator algebras and applications which will be held during the fall semester at various venues along the generalized east coast. The first meeting in this series took place at Vanderbilt University on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21, 2003. |
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| Organizing committee: Dietmar Bisch, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov and Guoliang Yu (all at Vanderbilt University). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), More Information: |
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The Clay Mathematics Institute international conference and spring school on Noncommutative Geometry and Applications in conjunction with the 18th Annual Shanks Lecture
May 2-13, 2003, Vanderbilt University
| This conference/school featured a lecture series by Alain Connes and several mini-courses by leading experts in noncommutative geometry and its applications to physics and geometry. In addition about 20 invited research talks and short contributions were presented at this meeting. |
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| Organizing committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), David Ellwood (Clay Mathematics Institute & Boston University), Bruce Hughes (Vanderbilt University), Gennadi Kasparov (Vanderbilt University) and Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University). More Information: Conference website (includes lectures notes and transperencies) |
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