Shanks Workshop on Subfactors and Planar Algebras
April 18-20, 2008, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
Organizers: Dietmar Bisch, Pinhas Grossman, Shamindra Ghosh

Friday, April 18
10:00-10:50 Feng Xu Introduction to intermediate subfactor lattices
11:00-11:50 Emily Peters Constructing the Haagerup subfactor with planar algebras
2:00- 50 min Marta Asaeda Non-existense of finite depth subfactors with certain small indices
50 min Yasuyuki Kawahigashi Superconformal field theory, super moonshine and operator algebras
50 min Richard Burstein Subfactors and Hadamard Matrices
Saturday, April 19
9:30- 50 min Feng Xu Intermediate subfactor lattice and conformal field theory I
30 min Paramita Das The planar algebra of Bisch-Haagerup subfactors I
30 min Shamindra Ghosh The planar algebra of Bisch-Haagerup subfactors II
2:00- 50 min Vaughan Jones Pairs of finite index subfactors, systems of bimodules and II1 factors
50 min Scott Morrison A not-quite-braiding for the D2n planar algebras, and some knot invariants
50 min Pinhas Grossman Construction of a subfactor with index (7+\sqrt{13})/2 (after Masaki Izumi)
Sunday, April 20
9:30- 50 min Feng Xu Intermediate subfactor lattice and conformal field theory II
30 min Noah Snyder Unoriented or Disoriented?
30 min Alan Wiggins Strong singularity for subfactors
50 min Jesse Peterson Von Neumann subalgebras closed under Γ-extensions