Banach Algebras 2009
Plenary
lectures and the lectures listed in the first column are in room C; the
lectures listed in the second column are in room A; Poster Session in room B.
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Tuesday 14
July |
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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Wednesday 15
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-9:30 |
OPENING |
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9:30-10:25 |
Chair: Garth Dales |
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Zhong-Jin Ruan,
Some Banach algebras associated with
locally compact quantum groups |
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COFFEE |
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11:00-11:40 |
Chair: Ali †lger |
Chair: Michael C. White |
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Zhiguo Hu,
Banach modules associated with locally
compact quantum groups |
Yemon Choi,
Cohomology of strong semilattices
of Banach algebras |
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11:50-12:30 |
Ebrahim Samei,
Beurling-Fourier Algebras, Amenability and Arens Regularity |
FrŽdŽric Gourdeau,
Cyclic and simplicial
cohomology of ℓ¹(S)
for some semigroups |
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13:00 |
LUNCH |
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14:30-15:00 |
Chair: Matthias Neufang |
Chair: FrŽdŽric
Gourdeau |
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Thomas Tonev,
Algebra isomorphisms
between standard operator algebras |
Matthew
Heath, Compact and weakly compact
derivations from commutative Banach algebras |
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COFFEE |
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15:30-16:10 |
Pekka Salmi,
Subgroups and invariant C*-subalgebras |
Michael C. White, Semigroups algebras with finite simplicial
dimension |
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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Thursday 16
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-10:10 |
Chair: Jean Esterle |
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Stefaan Vaes,
Group actions, von Neumann algebras and
fundamental groups |
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COFFEE |
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10:40-11:20 |
Chair: Heinrich Raubenheimer |
Chair: Ebrahim Samei |
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Dan Timotin,
Horn inequalities and Schubert calculus
in finite von Neumann algebras |
Zinaida A. Lykova,
The higher-dimensional amenability of
tensor products of Banach algebras |
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11:30-12:10 |
Martin Mathieu, Sheaves of C*-Algebras |
Mahya Ghandehari,
On amenability properties of Rajchman algebras |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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Chair: Martin Mathieu |
Chair: Ebrahim Samei |
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14:00-14:40 |
M. Fragoulopoulou,
The Completion of a C*-algebra under a locally
convex topology |
Nico Spronk, Weak
amenability of Fourier algebras of compact groups |
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COFFEE |
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15:10-15:50 |
Chair: Martin Mathieu |
Chair: Vladimir MŸller |
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Robert Archbold,
Ideal structure in multiplier algebras
of C*-algebras |
Ivan Todorov,
Multipliers of multidimensional Fourier
algebras |
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16:00-16:30 |
Fereshteh Sady,
Multiplicatively and non-symmetric
multiplicatively norm-preserving maps |
Ying-Fen Lin, Completely bounded disjointness
preserving operators on the Fourier algebras |
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19:00 |
BARBECUE |
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Friday 17
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-10:10 |
Chair: Zhong-Jin
Ruan |
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David Blecher,
Operator spaces and ideals in operator
algebras |
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COFFEE |
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10:40-11:20 |
Chair: Zhong-Jin
Ruan |
Chair: M. Fragoulopoulou |
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Niels Laustsen,
When James met Schreier |
Ralf Meyer, Non-Hausdorff symmetries
of C*-algebras |
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11:30-12:00 |
Alistair Bird, James--Schreier
spaces |
Christina P. Podara, Smooth
modules and their contribution to generalizing a Sheinberg's result |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-14:40 |
Chair: Niels
Laustsen |
Chair:
J. F.
Feinstein |
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Philip Brooker,
Operator ideals on separable C(K) spaces |
Oleg
Aristov, Approximate
projectivity for Banach modules |
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COFFEE |
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15:10-15:50 |
Vladimir Peller, Functions
of perturbed operators |
Eggert Briem,
C(K) representations of real Banach algebras |
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16:10 |
Poster Session |
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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20:30-21:30 |
Chair:
Garth Dales |
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W.
Żelazko on the History of Polish Mathematics |
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Saturday 18
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:00-9:40 |
Chair: Krzysztof Jarosz |
Chair: Ivan Todorov |
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J. F. Feinstein, Normed algebras of differentiable functions on
compact plane sets |
Keith F. Taylor, Wavelets with Crystal Symmetries |
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9:50-10:30 |
Yong Zhang, Solved and unsolved problems on
generalized notions of amenability for Banach algebras |
Ali †lger,
Invariant Projections and Power bounded
Multipliers on commutative Banach Algebras |
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COFFEE |
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11:00-11:55 |
Chair: Thomas Ransford |
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Jean Esterle,
Distance between elements of sectorial semigroups |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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13:30 |
Bus excursion to Poznan |
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19:30 |
DINNER |
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Sunday 19
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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13:30 |
EXCURSION |
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19:30 |
Dinner in honour
of the ruby anniversary of Joanna and Garth Dales |
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Monday 20
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-10:10 |
Chair: Nico Spronk |
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Thomas Ransford,
Spectra and pseudospectra |
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COFFEE |
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10:40-11:20 |
Chair: Nico Spronk |
Chair: Maria Roginskaya |
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Matthew Daws, Multipliers
and representations |
Pamela Gorkin,
Blaschke products, Poncelet
curves, and the numerical range |
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11:30-12:10 |
Anar Dosi,
Quantum duality and noncommutative
Arens-Mackey theorem |
Hans-Olav Tylli, More about
weakly compact approximation in Banach spaces |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-14:40 |
Chair: David Salinger |
Chair:
Vladimir MŸller |
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Paul Ramsden,
Multi-normed
spaces |
Aleksei Lissitsin, Approximation
properties of Banach spaces and pointwise approximability of operators |
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COFFEE |
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15:10-15:40 |
Chair: Ali †lger |
Chair: Zina Lykova |
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Marzieh Shamsi
Yousefi, Order
structure of the Figˆ-Talamanca-Herz algebra |
Nina Volosova,
Contractible quantum Arens--Michael algebras |
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16:00-16:55 |
Chair: Ali †lger |
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Viktor Losert,
On derivations and crossed homomorphisms |
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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Tuesday 21 July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-10:10 |
Chair: Alexander Helemskii |
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Eve Oja,
Bounded approximation properties of
Banach spaces |
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COFFEE |
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10:40-11:20 |
Chair: Thomas Ransford |
Chair: Alexei Pirkovskii |
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Sandy Grabiner,
Constructing Weak * Topologies on
Weighted Convolution Algebras |
Yurii Selivanov,
Homologically trivial and annihilator
locally C*-algebras |
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11:30-12:10 |
Thomas Vils
Pedersen, A class of weighted
convolution FrŽchet algebras |
Baruch Solel,
Operator algebras associated with subproduct systems |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-14:30 |
Chair: Niels Laustsen |
Chair: Krzysztof Jarosz |
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H.V. Dedania,
Weighted convolution algebras on subsemigroups of the real line |
Denis Poulin,
Multipliers, factorization property and
the strong topological centre |
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COFFEE |
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15:00-15:30 |
Ali Ghaffari,
Module homomorphisms
associated with Banach algebras |
Marek Kosiek,
Gleason parts properties for positive
measures |
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15:40-16:10 |
Andr‡s Zs‡k,
Closed ideals in the Banach algebra of
bounded operators on a Banach space |
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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Wednesday 22
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-10:10 |
Chair: David Salinger |
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Charles Read, Embedding Banach algebras into algebras of
formal power series |
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COFFEE |
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10:40-11:20 |
Chair: Herb Kamowitz |
Chair: Niels
Gr¿nb¾k |
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Heinrich Raubenheimer, On
inessential elements in different Banach algebras |
Armando R. Villena, Operators
shrinking the Arveson spectrum |
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11:30-12:00 |
Gareth Braatvedt,
Spectral characterizations of scalars
in a Banach algebra |
Gerhard Racher, On the injectivity of some group modules |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-14:40 |
Chair: Alexander Helemskii |
Chair:
Pamela Gorkin |
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Alexei Pirkovskii,
Homological dimensions of Kšthe algebras |
Sandra
Pott, The
multiplier algebra on the product BMO space and Toeplitz
operators on H¹(DN) |
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COFFEE |
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15:10-16:05 |
Chair: Anthony G.
O'Farrell |
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Matthias Neufang, Topological
centres for group algebras, actions, and quantum groups
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19:00 |
DINNER |
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Thursday 23
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |
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9:15-10:10 |
Chair: Keith F. Taylor |
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Stanisław L. Woronowicz,
Unbounded operators in the context of
C*-algebras |
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COFFEE |
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10:40-11:20 |
Chair: Michael C. White |
Chair: Anthony G.
O'Farrell |
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A. Ya.
Helemskii, Extremely
flat c0-modules and
the tensor product of Lp(½,μ) and Lp(½,ν) over C0(½) |
Maria Roginskaya,
Bounded Approximation Property for some
Sobolev spaces |
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11:30-12:10 |
Seytek Tabaldyev,
On strict homological dimensions of
algebras of continuous functions |
Hakimeh Mahyar,
Quasicompact endomorphisms
on natural uniform algebras |
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12:30 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-14:40 |
Chair: Garth Dales |
Chair:
Zhong-Jin Ruan |
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Anthony G. O'Farrell, Pervasive Function Algebras |
Piotr Mikołaj Sołtan, When a quantum space is not a group? |
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COFFEE |
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15:10-15:50 |
Niels Gr¿nb¾k,
Classification by Morita equivalence |
Vladimir MŸller, On the reflexivity deficit |
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16:00-16:55 |
Chair: Garth Dales |
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Volker Runde,
Amenability of B(ℓp)
for p2 |
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17:00-17:10 |
CLOSING |
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19:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER |
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Friday 24
July |
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8:00 |
BREAKFAST |