U.S.-Japan Seminar
Operator algebras and their applications
June 1999 at Kyushu University

June 7 10:00-10:50 George Elliott
On the classification of stably projectionless amenable C*-algebras:
The work of Andrew Dean and Shaloub Razak
11:05-11:55 N. Christopher Phillips
Crossed products by minimal diffeomorphisms
14:00-14:50 Masaki Izumi
Finite group actions on the Cuntz algebra O2
15:05-15:35 Jeong Hee Hong
C*-algebras of directed graphs
16:05-16:55 Nathanial Brown
A survey of quasidiagonal C*-algebras
17:10-17:40 Hideki Nakamura
Aperiodic automorphisms of certain simple C*-algebras
June 8 10:00-10:50 Mikael Rordam
Non-simple purely infinite C*-algebras
11:05-11:55 Yasuo Watatani
Relative positions of four subspaces in a Hilbert space and subfactors
14:00-14:50 Yasu Kawahigashi
Multi-interval subfactors for a net of von Neumann algebras on R
15:05-15:35 Nobuya Sato
Subfactors and topological invariants of 3-manifolds
16:05-16:35 Shigeru Yamagami
C*-tensor categories of self-duality for finite abelian groups
16:50-17:20 Yoshimichi Ueda
Type III factors arising as amalgamated free products and related results
June 9 9:35-10:05 Taku Matsui
Symmetry of spin ladder
10:20-10:50 Trond Digernes
Unconvetional physics and finite approximation
June 10 10:00-10:50 Marius Dadarlat
KK-theory and relative quasidiagonality
11:05-11:55 Toshikazu Natsume
Deformation quantization of symplectic manifolds and C*-algebras
14:00-14:50 Jonathan Rosenberg
Equivariant KK-calculus and G-signature theorem
15:05-15:35 Chun-Gil Park
The sectional C*-algebras with fibres a non-commutative torus
16:05-16:55 Edward Effros
Some recent results on operator spaces
17:10-17:40 Kengo Matsumoto
Topological conjugacy invariants of symbolic dynamics arising from C*-algebra K-theory
June 11 10:00-10:50 Bruce Blackadar
Semiprojectivity in simple C*-algebras
11:05-11:55 Ja A Jeong
Stable rank and real rank of graph C*-algebras
12:10-12:40 Masaru Nagisa
Single generation and rank of C*-algebras