Speaker: Sorin Popa (UCLA)
Title: On the Cartan decomposition of II₁ factors
Abstract: I will review the known results on the existence/absence of Cartan subalgebras in II₁ factors and on the uniqueness of such a subalgebra, when it exists. I will also discuss some open problems on this subject.

Speaker: Sorin Popa (UCLA) Title: On the Cartan decomposition of II1 factors Abstract: I will review the known results on the existence/absence of Cartan subalgebras in II1 factors and on the uniqueness of such a subalgebra, when it exists. I will also discuss some open problems on this subject.