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                  Thematic Program on Operator Algebras 
                    July-December, 2007
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                George Elliott (chairman, Toronto) 
                  Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt) 
                  Joachim Cuntz (Münster) | 
                Kenneth Davidson (Waterloo) 
                  Thierry Giordano (Ottawa) 
                  Roland Speicher (Queens) | 
               
               
                 
                   
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                Program supported by: 
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                   Special Operator Algebra Fund 
                    Supported by  
                    Professor George Elliott 
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                  Scientific Advisors:
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                    Alain Connes (Collège de France) 
                      Uffe Haagerup (Odense) 
                      Vaughan F. R. Jones (Berkeley) 
                   
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                Eberhard Kirchberg (Humboldt) 
                  N. Christopher Phillips (Oregon) 
                  Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (Berkeley) | 
               
               
                 
                  Distinguished Lecture Series 
                   
                    November 6,7 & 8, 2007- 3:30 P.M. 
                      Uffe Haagerup 
                      (Odense) 
                      Free probability and the invariant subspace problem for 
                      von Neumann algebras 
                     
                    May 28, 29,30- 2008  
                      Alain Connes 
                      (Collège de France, IHES & Vanderbilt University) 
                   
                  
                  
                     Tuesdays and Thursdays at Fields  
                   
                  Workshops
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                   July 16 - 20, 2007  
                    Workshop on Noncommutative Dynamics 
                    and Applications 
                    Fields Institute 
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                    William Arveson (Berkeley) 
                      B.V. Rajarama Bhat (Indian Statistical Institute) 
                      Remus Floricel (Regina)  
                     
                   
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                Robert Powers (Pennsylvania)  
                  Joachim Zacharias (Nottingham) | 
               
               
                September 17 - 21, 2007 
                  Workshop on Free Probability, Random Matrices, 
                  and Planar Algebras 
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                    Jamie Mingo (Queens)  
                      Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt)  
                     
                   
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                Roland Speicher (Queens) 
                  Alexander Soshnikov (Davis) | 
               
               
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                    October 29 - November 2, 2007 
                    Workshop on von Neumann Algebras 
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                    Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt) 
                      Jamie Mingo (Queens)  
                      Narutaka Ozawa (Tokyo) 
                     
                   
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                Sorin Popa (UCLA)  
                  Dimitri Shlyakhtenko (UCLA) 
                  Roland Speicher (Queens) 
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                    November 12- 16, 2007 
                    Workshop on Structure of C*-Algebras 
                    Fields Institute  
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                    Marius Dadarlat (Purdue) 
                      Eberhard Kirchberg (Humboldt) 
                      Huaxin Lin (Oregon)  
                     
                   
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                Ian Putnam (Victoria) 
                  Mikael Rørdam (Odense) 
                  Andrew Toms (York) 
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                   December 11 - 15, 2007  
                    Workshop on Operator Spaces 
                    and Quantum Groups 
                    Fields Institute  
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                    Matthias Neufang (Carleton) 
                      Marius Junge (Illinois) 
                      Vern Paulsen (Houston) 
                   
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                Gilles Pisier (Paris, Texas A&M) 
                  Zhong-Jin Ruan (Illinois) | 
               
             
            
             
              Introduction to Operator Algebras  
                Man-Duen Choi (Toronto) and Ken Davidson (Waterloo) 
                Structure of C*-Algebras 
                George Elliott (Toronto), Chris Phillips (Oregon), and Mikael 
                Rørdam (Odense)  
                Free Probability 
                Roland Speicher (Queens) and Jamie Mingo (Queen's) 
                Functional Analysis  
                (Jul. 3-Aug. 30, Tuesdays 10 
                a.m., Fields Library) 
                *To register, please contact Andrew Toms (atoms@mathstat.yorku.ca) 
             
             
             
              Affiliated Activities 
              2008 
               
               
                 June 2 - 6, 2008 
                  Session 
                  on Non-Commutative Geometry and K-Theory for Operator Algebras 
                   
                  at the Second Canada-France Mathematical Congress,  
                  Montreal, Quebec 
                  Organizers: Alain Connes (Collège de France) and 
                  George Elliott (Toronto), 
                May 27 - 31, 2008 
                  Workshop on Noncommutative 
                  Geometry 
                  Organizers: Masoud Khalkhali (Western), Matilde Marcolli 
                  (Max Planck Institute, Bonn), and Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt) 
                 
                 May 20 - 24, 2008 
                  36th Canadian Annual Symposium 
                  on Operator Algebras and Their Applications (COSy)  
                  Organizers: Man-Duen Choi (Toronto), George Elliott (Toronto), 
                  Raphael Ponge (Toronto), and Andrew Toms (York) 
                May 16- 18, 2008 
                  Fields Workshop around Connes Embedding 
                  Problem 
                  University of Ottawa 
                January 27 - February 1, 2008 
                  BIRS Workshop: C*-algebras Associated to Discrete and Dynamical 
                  Systems 
                  Banff, Alberta 
                   Organizers: Soren Eilers (Copenhagen), George Elliott 
                  (Toronto), Alex Kumjian (Reno), David Pask (Newcastle, Australia), 
                  Iain Raeburn (Newcastle, Australia), and Andrew Toms (York) 
                 
                January 13 - 18, 2008 
                  BIRS Workshop: Free Probability, Extensions, and Applications 
                  Banff, Alberta  
                  Organizers: Andu Nica (Waterloo), Roland Speicher (Queen's), 
                  Antonia Tulino (Sannio), and Dan Voiculescu (Berkeley) 
                 
               
              2007 
               
               
                June 5 - 9, 2007 
                  35th Canadian Annual Symposium 
                  on Operator Algebras and Their Applications (COSy)  
                  University of Guelph  
                  Organizing Committee: John Holbrook (University of Guelph), 
                  and David Kribs (University of Guelph) 
                   
                August 13 - 24, 2007 
                  Ottawa Summer School in Operator 
                  Algebras 
                  University of Ottawa  
                  Organizer: Thierry Giordano  
                 
                  August 13 - 17, 2007 
                    Dietmar Bisch (subfactors), Matthias Neufang (operator spaces), 
                    and Narutaka Ozawa (rigid factors); 
                    August 20 - 24, 2007 
                    Chris Phillips (classification of C*-algebras), Jean Renault 
                    (dynamical systems and C*-algebras), and Stefaan Vaes (quantum 
                    groups) 
                 
                 
                  
               
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