Reseach Talks

• On the lifting property for the universal C*-algebras of operator spaces

  Tokyo University, December 1998

  Operator Space Workshop at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 1999

• A non-extendable bounded linear map between C*-algebras

  Texas A&M University, April 1999

  University of Houston, May 1999

  Tokyo University, June 1999

• On injectivity and nuclearity for operator spaces (in collaboration with Effros and Ruan)

  Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University, August 1999

• A short proof of the Oikhberg-Rosenthal theorem

  SUMIRFAS at Texas A&M University, August 1999

• On the set of finite dimensional subspaces of preduals of von Neumann algebras

  Sur les espaces Lp non-commutatifs à l'IHP, novembre 1999

• Local theory and local reflexivity

  CONFERENCE ON OPERATOR SPACES at IHP, January 2000

  Tokyo University, January 2000

• Amenable actions and exactness for discrete groups

  Séminaire d'Algèbres d'Opérateurs at Collège de France, March 2000

  Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, March 2000

  Tokyo University, April 2000

• On exactness of reduced group C*-algebras

  Cardiff University, May 2000

  Rencontres sur la conjecture de Baum-Connes à IRMA, Strasbourg, mai 2000

  SUMIRFAS at Texas A&M University, August 2000

  MSRI, October 2000

• On OLp spaces
  Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University, July 2000

  On the lifting problem for separable C*-algebras

  Free Probability and Noncommutative Banach Spaces at MSRI, January 2001

  Almost completely isometric embeddings between preduals of von Neumann algebras

  University of California at Irvine, March 2001

  University of California at Los Angeles, May 2001

  Exactness for free group factors

  Tokyo University, June 2001

  Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University, July 2001

  Nuclearity of reduced amalgamated free product C*-algebras

  Operator Algebras and Their Applications at RIMS, September 2001

  An application of expanders to B(\ell_2)\otimes B(\ell_2)

  Tokyo University, October 2001

  Annual Meeting on Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Yufuin, November 2001

  C*-Algebren at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, December 2001

  Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 and Besançon, May 2002

  Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability at Texas A&M University, July 2002

  Non-commutative Phenomena and Random Matrices at PIMS (Victoria), August 2002

  Homotopy invariance of AF-embeddability

  Aspects of Operator Algebras at RIMS, January 2002

  A survey on R^\omega embeddability

  Chiba University, February 2002

  Homogeneity of the pure state space for a separable C*-algebra

  Annual Meeting of Math. Soc. Japan at Meiji Univ, March 2002

  Operator Space Mini^2 Conference at UT Austin, July 2002

  A survey on discrete exact groups

  UC Berkeley, September 2002

  Application of uncountably many property T groups of Gromov to operator algebras

  UCLA, October 2002

  UC Berkeley, November 2002

  On Connes' Approximate Embedding Problem

  UCLA, January (2) 2003

  Penn State University, February 2003

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2003.

  Rencontre du GdR "Algèbres d'Opérateurs" at Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, July 2003

  Solid von Neumann algebras

  UC Berkeley, February 2003

  UCLA, March 2003

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2003

  Texas A&M University, August 2003

  WCOAS at BIRS, October 2003

  Some prime factorization results for type II_1 factors

  Noncommutative Geometry and Applications at Vanderbilt University, May 2003

  Recent Advances in von Neumann Algebras at UCLA, May 2003

  GPOTS at UIUC, June 2003

  Rencontre du GdR "Algèbres d'Opérateurs" at Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, July 2003

  Weakly exact von Neumann algebras

  Espaces d'opérateurs at CIRM, June 2003

  UC Berkeley, September 2003

  ECOAS at Vanderbilt University, September 2003

  Noncommutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics at CIRM, February 2004

  A Kurosh type theorem for type II_1 factors

  UCLA, January 2004

  AMS Sectional Meeting at Vanderbilt University, October 2004.

  New progress in the classification of group von Neumann algebras

  Math Colloquium at UCLA, January 2004.

  Kansai Operator Algebra Seminar at Kyoto University, May 2004.

  Tokyo Operator Algebra Semianr at Chiba University, June 2004.

  SUMIRFAS at Texas A&M University, August 2004.

  Math Colloquium at University of Iowa, December 2004.

  Hyperbolic groups and type II_1 factors (minicourse)

  Noncommutative Geometry in Mathematics and Physics at CIRM, February 2004.

  Penn State University, February 2004.

  Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras at Vanderbilt University, May 2005.

  On exact discrete groups

  Tohoku University, May 2004.

  University of Tokyo, June 2004.

  Amenable Actions And Applications (slides.pdf)

  Asymptotic and Probabilistic Methods in Geometric Group Theory at University of Geneva, June 2005.

  Banach Algebras and Their Applications at Bordeaux, July 2005.

  Development of Operator Algebras at RIMS, September 2005.

  Math Colloquium at Kyoto University, October 2005.

  Operator Algebras and Applications, University of Southern Denmark, April 2006.

  International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, August 2006. ICM Daily News (pdf)

  Survey on the CBAP

  Kansai Seminar, Osaka Kyoiku University, December 2005.

  An invitation to the similarity problem (after Pisier)

  Operator Spaces and Their Application, RIMS, January 2006.

  Property (T) for universal lattices, after Y. Shalom

  UCLA, April 2006.

  University Tokyo, July 2006.

  A comment on free group factors (slides.pdf)

  Free Analysis, American Institute of Mathematics, June 2006.

  SUMIRFAS, Texas A&M Univ., August 2006.

  Topics on von Neumann Algebras, BIRS, September 2006.

  Domestic Workshop on Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Tohoku University, November 2006.

  Generalized Bozejko-Picardello inequalities

  Operator Algebras and Related Fields, Hawaii, January 2007.

  Weak amenability of hyperbolic groups

  Operator spaces, non-commutative L_p-spaces and Applications, CIRM (Marseille), June 2007.

  Banach spaces and Operator spaces, Chern Institute of Mathematics (Tianjin), July 2007.

  Workshop on Structure of C*-Algebras, Fields Institute, November 2007.

  Analyse et Géométrie at Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, October 2009.

  Weakly exact von Neumann algebras

  Meeting on the structure of C*-algebras (Kirchbergfest), Münster, July 2007.

  Recent advances in classification of finite von Neumann algebras

  Annual Meeting of the Mathmatical Society of Japan, Saitama, March 2007.

  Banach Algebras 2007, Laval (Québec), July 2007.

  On a class of II_1 factors with at most one Cartan subalgebra

  Operator Algebra Seminar at University of Tokyo, July 2007.

  Workshop in Analysis and Probability, Texas A&M University, August 2007.

  Operator Spaces and Group Algebras, BIRS, August 2007.

  New Development of Operator Algebras, RIMS (Kyoto), September 2007.

  Workshop on von Neumann Algebras, Fields Institute, October 2007.

  Workshop on Operator Spaces and Quantum Groups, Fields Institute, December 2007.

  Rigidity in finite von Neumann algebras (5-hour minicourse),

  Summer School in Operator Algebras University of Ottawa, August 2007.

  On a class of II_1 factors with at most one Cartan subalgebra II (Handout.pdf)

  Topics in von Neumann Algebras, BIRS, March 2008. (2 lectures)

  Operator Algebra Seminar at University of Tokyo, April 2008.

  Operator Algebras, Dynamics, and Classification, Texas A&M University, August 2008.

  Non-commutative Harmonic Analysis with Applications to Probability, Będlewo, August 2008.

  Analytic Properties of Infinite Groups, Genève, August 2008.

  von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory of Group Actions, Oberwolfach, October 2008.

  Harmonic analysis, operator algebras and representations, CIRM, November 2008.

  von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory, UCLA, March 2009.