Mini
conference in operator algebras
Ben-Gurion
University, April 9-10, 2013
Sponsored
by the Department of Mathematics, the Faculty of Exact Sciences's
Distinguished Scientist Visitors Program, the Center for Advanced
Studies in Mathematics, and by EU Career Integration Grant no. 321749.
The mini conference will
include a series of lectures on advanced topics in operator algebras by Kenneth R. Davidson, as well
as several research talks.
Organizers: Daniel Markiewicz
and Orr Shalit.
Schedule:
All talks will take
place in room -101 in the mathematics building (58).
Tuesday, April 9
14:30—15:30:
Speaker: Kenneth R. Davidson, University of
Waterloo
Title: Operator
theory meets algebraic geometry
16:10—17:00:
Speaker: Kenneth R. Davidson, University of
Waterloo
Title: The Choquet boundary of
an operator system
17:10—17:50:
Speaker: Adam Dor-On,
BGU
Title: Operator
algebras and subproduct systems from stochastic
matrices
18:00—18:40:
Speaker: Sourav
Pal, BGU
Title: The failure of normal dilation on the symmetrized
tri-disc
20:00: Dinner
Wednesday, April 10
10:10—11:00:
Speaker: Kenneth R. Davidson, University of
Waterloo
Title: Semicrossed products
11:10—12:00:
Speaker: Kenneth R. Davidson, University of
Waterloo
Title: Dilation
theory and commutant lifting
12:00—14:00: Lunch
14:10—15:00:
Speaker: Baruch Solel,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Title: Hardy
Algebras, Berezin Transforms, and Taylor's Taylor
Series
15:10—15:50:
Speaker: Guy Salomon, BGU
Title: On
algebras which are inductive limits of Banach spaces
16:00—16:40:
Speaker: Eli Shamovich,
BGU
Title: Non-selfadjoint
representations of Lie algebras and operator vessels