2015 Banach Algebras and Applications Workshop and Retrospective Meeting for the 2014 Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras

August 4 - 12, 2015, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

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Schedule

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
09:35	Duality, convexity and peak interpolation in Drury-Arveson space Kenneth Davidson, University of Waterloo
11:00 to 11:30	Commuting contractive idempotents in measure algebras Nico Spronk, University of Waterloo
11:30	Closed Convex Hulls of Unitary Orbits in C-Algebras of Real Rank Zero Paul Skoufranis, Texas A&M University
14:00	Hamana boundary of L1-algebra of discrete (quantum) groups Mehrdad Kalantar, IMPAN
15:30 to 16:00	A Peak-Point Theorem for Uniform Algebras on Real-Analytic Varieties John Anderson, College of the Holy Cross
16:00 to 16:30	Biggest open ball in invertible elements of a Banach algebra Sukumar Daniel, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
16:30	Splittings of Extensions of Banach Algebras Richard Skillicorn, Lancaster University

Wednesday, August 5th, 2015
09:30	A Gleason-Kahane-Zelazko theorem for modules and applications to holomorphic function spaces Thomas Ransford, Université Laval
11:00 to 11:30	The smoothness of orbital measures on classical simple Lie algebras Kathryn Hare, University of Waterloo
11:30	Function spaces invariant under group actions Alexander Izzo, Bowling Green State University
14:00	State of the art in generalized notions of amenability Fereidoun Ghahramani, University of Manitoba
15:30 to 16:30	Weak* tensor products for von Neumann algebras Matthew Wiersma, University of Waterloo
16:30	Inductive limits of operator systems Linda Mawhinney, Queen's University Belfast

Thursday, August 6th, 2015
09:30	An invitation to operator algebras on L^p spaces N. Christopher Phillips
11:00 to 11:30	Spectra of weighted Fourier algebras on non-compact Lie groups: the case of the Euclidean motion group Hun Hee Lee
11:30	CPH-Semigroups Michael Skeide, Università degli Studi del Molise
14:00	Derivations on semigroup algebras and Fourier algebras Yemon Choi, Lancaster University
15:30 to 16:00	Purely infinite C*-algebras associated to Fell bundles over discrete groups Bartosz Kwasniewski, Southern University of Denmark
16:00 to 16:30	Multipliers and Perfectness in Topological Algebras Lourdes Palacios, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
16:30	Homomorphisms of Bland-Feinstein Algebras Sam Morley, University of Nottingham

Friday, August 7th, 2015
09:30	Generalizing C*-techniques to Banach and operator algebras David Blecher, University of Houston
11:00 to 11:30	Weak amenability of the Fourier algebra of a Lie group Ebrahim Samei, University of Saskatchewan
11:30	Classification of multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces Michael Hartz, University of Waterloo
14:00	Ideals in the Fourier Algebra and Related Algebras Brian Forrest, University of Waterloo
15:30 to 16:00	Spatial L^P algebra Maria Grazia Viola, Lakehead University
16:00 to 16:30	On projections in the group algebra of unimodular groups Mahmood Alaghmandan, University of Waterloo
16:30	Schur idempotents and hyperreflexivity Rupert Levene, University College Dublin

Saturday, August 8th, 2015
09:30	The Algebra of Germs and the Invariant Subspace Problem Charles Read, University of Leeds
11:00 to 11:30	A non-commutative analogue of (almost) band preserving operators Timur Oikhberg, University of Illinois
11:30	Cosine families close to bounded scalar cosine families Jean Esterle, Université de Bordeaux
14:00	Weak mixing for locally compact quantum groups Ami Viselter, University of Haifa
15:30 to 16:00	The index for Fredholm elements in a Banach algebra via a trace II Heinrich Raubenheimear
16:00 to 16:30	Faithful actions of locally compact quantum groups on classical spaces Sutanu Roy, Carleton University
16:30	Classicalisation of Swiss cheese sets Hongfei Yang, University of Nottingham

Monday, August 10th, 2015
09:30	Bilinear Schur products and second order perturbation of functional calculus Christian LeMerdy
11:00 to 11:30	Regularity points and Jensen measures for R(X) Joel Feinstein, University of Nottingham
11:30	When a subalgebra of the Fourier algebra is the whole algebra? Hung Le Pham
14:00	Banach function algebras and BSE norms H. Garth Dales
15:30 to 16:00	Characterization of commutative subalgebras of the algebra of smooth operators Tomasz Cias, Adam Mickiewicz university in Poznan
16:00 to 16:30	On generalized notions of operator amenability for Fourier algebras Miad Makareh Shireh
16:30 to 17:00	On Riesz Operators Ur Koumba, University of Johannesburg
17:00	Weak amenability of central Beurling algebras Yong Zhang, University of Manitoba

Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
09:30	Representations of C*-algebras and set theory Iljas Farah
11:00 to 11:30	Ideal structure of the algebra of bounded operators acting on a Banach space Niels Laustsen, Lancaster University
11:30	Carleton University and University of Lille 1 Jason Crann, Université de Lille and Carleton University
14:00	Arens products and descriptive set theory Juris Steprans, York University
15:30 to 16:00	Grothendieck Inequality in the noncommutative Schwartz space Krysztof Piszczek
16:00 to 16:30	Compactness of weighted composition operators on Lipschitz spaces Hakimeh Mahyar, Kharazmi University
16:30 to 17:00	On character amenability of semigroup algebras Oluwatosin T. Mewomo, University of Kwazulu-Natal
17:00	Isometric isomorphisms of Beurling algebras Safoura Jafar-Zadeh, University of Manitoba

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