Operator Algebra Seminar Program

Upcoming Seminars:

• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Skew product graphs
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 3:30pm Thursday, 17 May 2012
  Location: 8.G25


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: TBA
  Abstract: TBA
  Date: 3:30pm Thursday, 24 May 2012
  Location: 8.G25


• Speaker: Nathan Brownlowe (University of Wollongong)
  Title: TBA
  Abstract: TBA
  Date: 3:30pm Thursday, 31 May 2012
  Location: 8.G25


• Speaker: Nathan Brownlowe (University of Wollongong)
  Title: TBA
  Abstract: TBA
  Date: 3:30pm Thursday, 7 June 2012
  Location: 8.G25


• Speaker: Daniel Redelmeier (Texas A&M University)
  Title: TBA
  Abstract: TBA
  Date: 3:30pm Monday, 7 June 2012
  Location: TBA


• Speaker: Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong)
  Title: TBA
  Abstract: TBA
  Date: 3:30pm Thursday, 14 June 2012
  Location: 8.G25


• Speaker: Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong)
  Title: TBA
  Abstract: TBA
  Date: 3:30pm Thursday, 21 June 2012
  Location: 8.G25

Past Seminars:

2012:

• Speaker: James Parkinson (University of Sydney)
  Title: Plancherel Formulas for Coxeter groups and Hecke algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 10 May 2012


• Speaker: Tristan Bice (Kobe University)
  Title: States, projections and C*-algebras of real rank zero
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 3 May 2012


• Speaker: Pedram Hekmati (University of Adelaide)
  Title: The cubic Dirac operator
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 26 April 2012


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: KMS states on graph algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 19 April 2012


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Simple groupoid C*-algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date:5 April 2012


• Speaker: Dave Robertson (University of Wollongong)
  Title: C*-correspondences, multipliers and Cuntz-Pimsner algebras - Part 2
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 22 March 2012


• Speaker: Dave Robertson (University of Wollongong)
  Title: C*-correspondences, multipliers and Cuntz-Pimsner algebras - Part 1
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 15 March 2012


• Speaker: Sooran Kang (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Fundamental group of k-graphs
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 8 March 2012


• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Shift spaces and 2-graphs of algebraic origin
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 1 March 2012


• Speaker: Alexander Gerhardt-Bourke (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Unbounded Operators
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 23 February 2012


• Speaker: Mitchell Hawkins (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Iterated monodromy groups and self-similiar actions
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 23 February 2012


• Speaker: Adam Humphreys and Alex Mundey (University of Wollongong)
  Title: On graphs of groups and the Bass-Serre Structure Theorem
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 16 February 2012


• Speaker: Tom O'Brien (University of Wollongong)
  Title: k-graphs and non-commutative geometry
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 9 February 2012


• Speaker: Ben Whitehead (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Cohomology of the pinwheel tiling
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 9 February 2012


• Speaker: Dave Robertson (University of Southern Denmark)
  Title: Cuntz-Pimsner algebras associated to C*-correspondences
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 19 January 2012


• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Labeled graphs and their C*-algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 12 January 2012


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: AF k-graph algebras and an interesting example
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 5 January 2012

2011:

• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Primitive ideals in Higher rank graph algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 15 December 2011


• Speaker: Toke Meier Carlsen (NTNU, Norway)
  Title: Simplicity of Cuntz-Pimsner rings (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 8 December 2011


• Speaker: Toke Meier Carlsen (NTNU, Norway)
  Title: Simplicity of Cuntz-Pimsner rings (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 1 December 2011


• Speaker: Tony Samuel (Australian National University)
  Title: Spectral Metric Spaces For Gibbs Measures
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: Thursday, 24 November 2011


• Speaker: John Phillips (University of Victoria, Canada)
  Title: From Two Projections to the Local Index Theorem
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 17 November 2011


• Speaker: Hui Li (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Toeplitz Representations of Topological Graphs
  Abstract: PDF
  Date:10 November 2011


• Speaker: Martin Wanvik (NTNU, Norway)
  Title: A new(ish) group von Neumann algebra (Part 3)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 3 November 2011


• Speaker: Martin Wanvik (NTNU, Norway)
  Title: A new(ish) group von Neumann algebra (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 27 October 2011


• Speaker: Martin Wanvik (NTNU, Norway)
  Title: A new(ish) group von Neumann algebra (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 20 October 2011


• Speaker: Valentin Deaconu (University of Nevada, USA)
  Title: The fundamental group of a topological graph (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 13 October 2011


• Speaker: Valentin Deaconu (University of Nevada, USA)
  Title: The fundamental group of a topological graph (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 6 October 2011


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: C*-algebras of Fell bundles over groupoids
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 22 September 2011


• Speaker: Andrzej Sitarz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
  Title: Noncommutative circle bundles and new Dirac operators
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 15 September 2011


• Speaker: Alex Kumjian (University of Nevada, USA)
  Title: Homology of higher rank graphs (Part 4)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 8 September 2011


• Speaker: Alex Kumjian (University of Nevada, USA)
  Title: Homology of higher rank graphs (Part 3)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 1 September 2011


• Speaker: Denis Potapov (University of New South Wales)
  Title: Phillips-Raeburn spectral triples
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 25 August 2011


• Speaker: Makoto Yamashita (University of Tokyo)
  Title: Deformation of algebras associated to group cocycles
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 25 August 2011


• Speaker: Piotr M. Hajac (Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
  Title: The Klein-Podles bottle as a non-trivial bundle over the quantum real projective space RP_q(2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 18 August 2011


• Speaker: Alex Kumjian (University of Nevada, USA)
  Title: Homology of higher rank graphs (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 11 August 2011


• Speaker: Adam Rennie (Australian National University, USA)
  Title: Twisted cyclic cohomology and a local index formula for the Podles sphere
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 8 August 2011


• Speaker: Alex Kumjian (University of Nevada, USA)
  Title: Homology of higher rank graphs (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 4 August 2011


• Speaker: John Quigg (Arizona State University, USA)
  Title: Functoriality of Cuntz-Pimsner algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 21 July 2011


• Speaker: John Quigg (Arizona State University, USA)
  Title: Group actions of topological graphs
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 14 July 2011


• Speaker: Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong)
  Title: K-theoretic duality for Smale spaces (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 7 July 2011


• Speaker: Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong)
  Title: K-theoretic duality for Smale spaces (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 30 June 2011


• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: k-graphs, groupoids and group actions (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 23 June 2011


• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: k-graphs, groupoids and group actions (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 16 June 2011


• Speaker: Nathan Brownlowe (University of Wollongong)
  Title: On the boundary quotients of the Toeplitz algebra of the affine semigroup over the natural numbers (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 7 June 2011


• Speaker: Nathan Brownlowe (University of Wollongong)
  Title: On the boundary quotients of the Toeplitz algebra of the affine semigroup over the natural numbers (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 2 June 2011


• Speaker: Jacqui Ramagge (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Infinite groups, geometries and operator algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 17 May 2011


• Speaker: Samuel B.G. Webster (University of Wollongong)
  Title: The path space of a directed graph
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 10 May 2011


• Speaker: Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Tiling dynamical systems as an introduction to Smale spaces
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 3 May 2011


• Speaker: Ben Maloney (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Thoughts on *-commuting maps
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 19 April 2011


• Speaker: Fedor Sukochev (University of New South Wales)
  Title: On the Rosenthal inequalities in noncommutative symmetric spaces
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 7 April 2011


• Speaker: Fedor Sukochev (University of New South Wales)
  Title: Commutator estimates in W*-algebras and applications
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 6 April 2011


• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: C*-algebras associated to k-graphs
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 29 March 2011


• Speaker: David Pask (University of Wollongong)
  Title: What is a k-graph?
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 22 March 2011


• Speaker: Sooran Kang (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Rieffel's deformation quantization and non-commutative tori
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 15 March 2011


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Dixmier-Douady for Fell algebras (Part 2)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 8 March 2011


• Speaker: Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Dixmier-Douady for Fell algebras (Part 1)
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 1 March 2011