Third Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras and 20th Shanks Lecture
May 9-20, 2005, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.

May 9, 9:30-10:30 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche Correspondences and Type II_1 Factors (1)
May 9, 11:00-12:00 Dan Voiculescu Topics in Free Probability Theory (1)
May 9, 14:00-15:00 Feng Xu The Standard Invariant of a Subfactor (1)
May 9, 15:10-16:00 Zhenghan Wang Quantum Topology, Quantum Physics and Quantum Computing
May 9, 17:00-18:00 Vaughan Jones A trip to the Subfactor Circus
May 10, 9:30-10:30 Vaughan Jones A Short Course in Planar Algebra (1)
May 10, 11:00-12:00 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche Correspondences and Type II_1 Factors (2)
May 10, 14:00-15:00 Dan Voiculescu Topics in Free Probability Theory (2)
May 10, 15:10-16:10 Feng Xu The Standard Invariant of a Subfactor (2)
May 10, 16:40-17:30 Sergey Neshveyev Types of von Neumann Algebras Arising from Boundary Actions of Hyperbolic Groups
May 11, 9:30-10:30 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche Correspondences and Type II_1 Factors (3)
May 11, 11:00-12:00 Vaughan Jones A Short Course in Planar Algebra (2)
May 11, 14:00-15:00 Feng Xu The Standard Invariant of a Subfactor (3)
May 11, 15:10-16:00 Matilde Marcolli KMS States and Complex Multiplication
May 11, 16:30-17:00 Shamindra Ghosh Representations of a Planar Algebra
May 11, 17:10-17:40 Remus Nicoara On II_1 Factors Arising from 2-Cocycles of w-rigid Groups
May 12, 9:30-10:30 Vaughan Jones A Short Course in Planar Algebra (3)
May 12, 10:50-11:20 Pinhas Grossman Intermediate Subfactors with No Extra Structure
May 12, 11:30-12:30 Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche Correspondences and Type II_1 Factors (4)
May 12, 14:00-15:00 Alain Connes Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry (1)
May 12, 15:10-16:10 Dan Voiculescu Topics in Free Probability Theory (3)
May 12, 16:30-17:30 Narutaka Ozawa Hyperbolic Groups and Type II_1 Factors (1)
May 14, 9:30-10:30 Alain Connes Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry (2)
May 14, 11:00-12:00 Dan Voiculescu Topics in Free Probability Theory (4)
May 14, 14:00-15:00 Narutaka Ozawa Hyperbolic Groups and Type II_1 Factors (2)
May 14, 15:10-16:00 Florin Radulescu A Hochschild "Obstruction" of Isomorphisms and the Rademacher Function
May 14, 16:30-17:20 Alain Valette Group II_1-factors with Trivial Fundamental Group and all L^2-Betti Numbers Zero
May 15, 9:30-10:30 Dima Shlyakhtenko Free Probability and L^2-Invariants in Operator Algebras (1)
May 15, 11:00-12:00 Alain Connes Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry (3)
May 15, 14:00-14:50 Wolfgang Lueck Middle Algebraic K-theory of von Neumann Algebras, Group C*-Algebras and Group Rings
May 15, 15:00-15:50 Roland Speicher Free Probability and Random Matrices
May 15, 16:20-17:10 Antony Wassermann Outomorphic Representations of Locally Compact Groups on Operator Algebras
May 16, 9:30-10:30 Narutaka Ozawa Hyperbolic Groups and Type II_1 Factors (3)
May 16, 11:00-12:00 Sorin Popa Deformation and Rigidity Techniques in the Classification of II_1 Factors (1)
May 16, 14:00-15:00 Dima Shlyakhtenko Free Probability and L^2-Invariants in Operator Algebras (2)
May 16, 15:10-16:00 Florin Boca Some Statistical Problems Related to the Equation ad-bc=1
May 16, 16:30-17:00 Kenley Jung Some Free Entropy Dimension Inequalities for Subfactors of Finite Index
May 17, 9:30-10:30 Sorin Popa Deformation and Rigidity Techniques in the Classification of II_1 Factors (2)
May 17, 11:00-11:50 Teodor Banica Random Walks on Discrete Quantum Groups
May 17, 14:00-14:50 Ken Dykema Multilinear Function Series and Transforms in Free Probability Theory
May 17, 15:00-15:50 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi Classification of Extensions in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Vertex Operator Algebras
May 17, 16:20-17:10 Roberto Longo Noncommutative Spectral Invariants and Black Hole Entropy
May 18, 9:30-10:30 Uffe Haagerup Invariant Subspaces for Operators in II_1 Factors (1)
May 18, 11:00-12:00 Sorin Popa Deformation and Rigidity Techniques in the Classification of II_1 Factors (3)
May 18, 14:00-14:30 Jesse Peterson Amalgamated Free Products of w-rigid Factors and Calculation of their Symmetry Groups, part I
May 18, 14:40-15:10 Adrian Ioana Amalgamated Free Products of w-rigid Factors and Calculation of their Symmetry Groups, part II
May 18, 15:20-15:50 Roman Sauer Another Approach to Gaboriau's L^2-Betti Numbers of Equivalence Relations
May 18, 16:20-17:10 Alex Furman Measure Equivalence and Rigidity of Higher Rank Lattices
May 19, 9:30-10:30 Sorin Popa Deformation and Rigidity Techniques in the Classification of II_1 Factors (4)
May 19, 11:00-12:00 Uffe Haagerup Invariant Subspaces for Operators in II_1 Factors (2)
May 19, 14:00-14:30 Hanne Schultz Brown Measures of Sets of Commuting Operators in a II_1 factor
May 19, 14:40-15:10 Yoshimichi Ueda HNN Extensions of von Neumann Algebras
May 19, 15:40-16:30 Dietmar Bisch A Notion of Free Product for Planar Algebras
May 20, 9:30-10:30 Uffe Haagerup Invariant Subspaces for Operators in II_1 Factors (3)
May 20, 11:00-12:00 Sorin Popa Deformation and Rigidity Techniques in the Classification of II_1 Factors (5)