Conference program "C*-Algebren"
Oberwolfach, Germany
October 1991
Monday, October 21
A. Valette (with Bekka):
On duals of Lie groups made discrete
K. Thomsen:
Inductive limits of interval algebras
B. Blackadar (with A. Kumjian & M. Rordam):
Approximately divisible C*-algebra
Y. Kawahigashi (with D. Evans / with M. Izumi):
Flat connections, the Yang-Baxter equation, and orbifold subfactors
R. Longo:
Inclusions of factors and quantum field theory
D. Bisch:
Entropy of groups and subfactors
(informal session at night)
U. Haagerup:
Subfactors with finite depth and small indicies
Tuesday, October 22
A. Ocneanu:
Operator algebras and invariants for manifolds
W. Nahm:
Penrose tilings, Jones embeddings and quantum filed theory
J. Roberts:
Spontaneously broken symmetry and Goldstone's theorem
M. Rordam (with B. Blackadar & A. Kumjian):
Approximately divisible C*-algebra II
O. Bratteli (with A. Kishimoto):
The crossed product of irrational rotation algebra by the flip
G. Pedersen:
Facial structure in C*-algebras
S. Power:
Non-self-adjoint limit algebras
Wednesday, October 23
P. Julg (with G. Kasparov):
The ring KK_G(C,C) for G=SU(n,1)
G. Elliott:
The classification problems for amenable C*-algebras
D. Evans (with G. Elliott):
The structure of the irrational rotation C*-algebras
Thursday, October 24
S. Popa:
Amenability and rigidity in the theory of von Neumann algebras
and their subfactors
E. Kirchberg:
On exact C*-algebras
C. Skau (with Giordano & I. Putnum):
C*-algebras associated to minimal dynamical system and
topological orbit equivalence
J. Renault:
Exactness of group C*-algebras
S. Doplicher:
Operator algebras and group duality
M. Landstadt (with I. Raeburn):
Deformations of homogeneous spaces
(informal session at night)
G. Kasparov:
Informal discussion on R-trees
Friday, October 25
S. Woronowicz:
Quantum E(w)-group and its Pontrjagin dual
G. Skandalis (with Baaj):
Duality for locally compact "quantum groups"
M. Puschnigg:
Computation of assymptotic cyclic cohomology groups for C*-algebras and
dense subalgebras
R. Nest:
Geometric cyclic cocycles
R. Speicher:
Some aspects of free convolution in the sense of Voiculescu
U. Haagerup: Quasitraces on exact C*-algebras are traces