NCGOA Spring Institute 2017

Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, May 5-11, 2017

Our campus Welcome to the homepage for the Fifteenth Annual Spring Institute Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras

This year’s topic is Operator Algebras and Logic. The Fifteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras is a combination of spring school and international conference. During the school part of the meeting several mini-courses on a variety of topics from noncommutative geometry, operator algebras and related topics will be given by leading experts. The conference will consist of a number of invited research talks and short contributions. We strongly encourage students and postdocs to attend this conference. Please read the section on financial aid below regarding information on how to apply for financial support.

Minicourse Speakers

Speaker Affiliation Title
Bradd Hart McMaster University Continuous model theory and operator algebras
Justin Moore Cornell University Groups of piecewise linear and piecewise projective homeomorphisms
Roman Sasyk Universidad de Buenos Aires On the classification of Type III von Neumann Algebras
Simon Thomas Rutgers University A descriptive view of unitary group representations
Anush Tserunyan UIUC Countable Borel equivalence relations

Invited Speakers

Speaker Affiliation Title
Alessandro Carderi TU Dresden Ultraproducts of Betti numbers
Ionut Chifan University of Iowa II_1 factors with non-isomorphic ultrapowers
Clinton Conley Carnegie Mellon University Følner tilings via matchings
Kristin Courtney University of Virginia Finite Dimensionally Normed Elements in an RFD C*-algebra
Daniel Drimbe UC San Diego Prime II_1 factors arising from irreducible lattices in products of rank one simple Lie groups
Isaac Goldbring UC Irvine Model theory of abelian C*-algebras
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska University of Muenster Properties of groups of measurable functions
Yash Lodha EPFL On the Tarski numbers of groups of piecewise projective homeomorphisms
Martino Lupini Cal Tech A notion of dimension for inclusion of C*-algebras, and applications (joint work with Eusebio Gardella and Mehrdad Kalantar)
Andrew Marks UCLA Borel circle squaring
Paul McKenney Miami University in Ohio Rigidity and nonrigidity of corona algebras
Christian Rosendal UIC Coarse equivalence, topological couplings and a theorem of Gromov
Marcin Sabok McGill University Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups
Thomas Sinclair Purdue University Robinson forcing in C*-algebras
David Sherman University of Virginia Cardinal invariants for von Neumann algebras
Slawek Solecki UIUC Dynamics of monoid actions on compact semigroups (and Ramsey theory)
Gabor Szabo University of Munster On the classification of Rokhlin flows
Aaron Tikuisis University of Aberdeen Quasidiagonality
Andrew Toms Purdue University The complexity of the isomorphism problem for nuclear separable C*-algebras
Asger Tornquist University of Copenhagen Characterizing Polish groups of finite type
Robin Tucker-Drob Texas A&M Inner amenable groupoids and compact actions
Todor Tsankov Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu–PRG Model theory of measure-preserving actions
Anatoly Vershik St. Petersburg State University RSK, representation of infinite symmetric group and Plancherel measure

Registration

All participants, including mini-course speakers and invited speakers, are asked to register online. All questions should be directed to ncgoa17@vanderbilt.edu. If you intend to request support, please read the section Reimbursement Policy. There will be a registration fee of $50. Payment by cash or check is accepted at the conference.

Financial Aid

Financial support will be available to (partially) fund graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and other participants without grant support. We encourage those of you who are asking for support to share accommodations. If you plan to apply for funding, please fill out the “Request Financial Support” portion of the registration form. International participants need to fill out a Business Visitor Questionnaire. Please submit your request for financial support by March 14, 2017. Late applications will be considered as long as financial support is available. Note that we are unable to provide any support in advance.

Sponsors

Funding for the Fifteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras is provided by the National Science Foundation and both the College of Arts & Science and the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University. We are grateful for their support.

Organizing Committee

Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University