Annual Meeting on Operator Theory and Operator Algebras
November 20-22, 2008
Osaka Kyoiku University

Thursday, November 20
14:00-15:30 Masatoshi Ito (Maebashi Insitute of Technology) Ando-Hiai inequality and a generalized Furuta-type operator function
15:10-16:10 Masamichi Takesaki (UCLA)/Kotaro Tanahashi (Tohoku Pharmaceutical University) An ordered pair of unitarily conjugate positive operators -- hyponormal operators
16:20-16:50 Eun Young Lee (Kyungpook National University, Korea) A matrix reverse Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
16:50-17:20 M. S. Moslehian (Ferdowsi University of Mashed, Iran) Operator generalizations of Bohr's inequality
Friday, November 21
9:30-10:30 Reiji Tomatsu (University of Tokyo) Approximate innerness and central triviality of endomorphisms
10:40-11:40 Yoshikazu Katayama (Osaka Kyouiku University)/Masamichi Takesaki (UCLA) Outer actions of a countable discrete amenable group on approximately finite dimensional factors III, Examples
13:40-14:40 Narutaka Ozawa (University of Tokyo) (Operator Algebra Prize Lecture) On classification of II1 factors
14:50-15:50 Masaki Izumi (Kyoto University) Every sum system is divisible
16:00-17:00 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (University of Tokyo) Generalized Moonshine and operator algebras
Saturday, November 22
9:30-10:30 Hiroaki Yoshida (Ochanomizu Women's University) A semicircular perturbation of the free Fisher information
10:40-11:40 Hiroyuki Osaka (Ritsumeikan University) Topics around matrix functions