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                   THE 
                    FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 
                     
                    20th 
                    ANNIVERSARY 
                    YEAR  
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                        July-December 
                          2012 Thematic Program on Forcing and its Applications 
                            
                         
                         
                           September 10-14, 2012 
                            Workshop on Applications to Operator Algebras
                          Organizing Committee: Ilijas Farah, 
                          Andrew Toms, Alexander S. Kechris
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            Overview 
            This workshop will explore connections between set theory and C*-algebras, 
              as well as the emerging connections with von Neumann algebras. Some 
              long-standing problems from the theory of C*-algebras were recently 
              solved by using increasingly sophisticated set-theoretic tools. 
              Emphasis will be put on applications of forcing to still unsolved 
              problems, such as the general Stone-Weierstrass problem or the consistency 
              of a positive answer to Naimark's problem. Part of the workshop 
              will be devoted to the emerging connections between the classication 
              problems in operator algebras and the abstract classication program 
              in descriptive set theory. 
            Affiliated Activities
             
              September 8-9, 2012 
                Appalachian Set Theory Workshop 
                on C*-algebras, Classification and Descriptive Set Theory  
                 
                in Toronto, Canada 
             
            
            
               
                | Monday, September 
                  10 | 
               
               
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                   10:00  
                   
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                Nik Weaver,Washington University 
                  Falsifying Kadison-Singer | 
               
               
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                   10:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:20  
                   
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                David Kerr,Texas A&M University 
                  Independence, ultraproducts, and actions of sofic groups | 
               
               
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                   12:10 
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                 Lunch break | 
               
               
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                   2:00  
                   
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                N. Christopher Phillips,University of Oregon 
                  (presentation)  
                  TBA  | 
               
               
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                   2:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:20  
                   
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                Paul McKenney,Carnegie Mellon University 
                  Automorphisms of Corona Algebras | 
               
               
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                   4:00  
                   
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                Aaron Tikuisis,Universität Münster 
                  Decomposition rank and Jiang-Su stability of C*-algebras | 
               
               
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                   4:40  
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                Wilhelm Winter,Universität Münster (presentation) 
                  Dynamics, dimension and classification of C*-algebras | 
               
               
                | Tuesday, September 11 | 
               
               
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                   10:00  
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                Adrian Ioana,UCLA 
                  Cartan subalgebras in amalgamated free product II1 
                  factors. | 
               
               
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                   10:50 
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                   Coffee Break 
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                   11:20  
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                Roman Sasyk,Instituto Argentino de Matematica 
                  Analytic sets of von Neumann algebras | 
               
               
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                   12:10 
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                Lunch break | 
               
               
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                   2:00  
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                Mikael Rørdam,University of Copenhagen 
                  (presentation)  
                  Central sequence C*-algebras and absorption of the Jiang-Su 
                  algebra  | 
               
               
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                   2:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:20 
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                Asger Törnquist,Kurt Gödel Research 
                  Center  | 
               
               
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                   4:20 
                   
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                Huaxin Lin,University of Oregon 
                  (presenttion)  
                  Simple C*-algebras with generalized tracial rank one. | 
               
               
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                  Wednesday, September 12 | 
               
               
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                   10:00  
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                Julien Melleray,Université Lyon 1 (presentation) 
                   Generic properties of measure preserving actions | 
               
               
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                   10:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:10  
                   
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                Robin Tucker-Drob,Caltech (presentation) 
                  Shift Minimal Groups | 
               
               
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                   11:50 
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                Anush Tserunyan,UCLA (presentation) 
                  Finite generators for countable group actions | 
               
               
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                   12:20  
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                Free afternoon. | 
               
               
                | Thursday, September 13 | 
               
               
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                   10:00  
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                Bradd Hart,McMaster University | 
               
               
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                   10:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:20  
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                Ilan Hirshberg,Ben Gurion University 
                  Rokhlin dimension for automorphisms of C*-algebras. | 
               
               
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                   12:10 
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                Lunch break | 
               
               
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                   2:00  
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                Stuart White,University of Glasgow 
                  Constructing tracially large order zero maps | 
               
               
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                   2:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   3:20  
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                Tristan Bice,Fields Institute 
                  (presentation) 
                  Traces and Ultrapowers | 
               
               
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                   4:10 
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                Pre-colloquium break | 
               
               
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                   4:30  
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                   Andrew Toms,Purdue University Back2Fields 
                    Colloquium 
                    Tensorial absorption and the structure of operator algebras 
                     
                  Reception to follow, cash bar 
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                | Friday, September 14 | 
               
               
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                   10:00  
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                Bruce Blackadar,University of Nevada, Reno 
                  The homotopy lifting theorem for semiprojective C*-algebras. | 
               
               
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                   10:50 
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                Coffee Break | 
               
               
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                   11:10  
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                Luis Santiago,University of Oregon | 
               
               
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                   11:40 
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                Joav Orovitz 
                  Tracially Z-absorbing C*-algebras | 
               
               
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                   12:20 
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                Lunch break | 
               
               
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                   2:00 
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                George Elliott,University of Toronto | 
               
             
            Participants  
            
            
               
                | Full Name | 
                University/Affiliation | 
               
               
                | Arisaka, Sohei | 
                Keio Univesity | 
               
               
                | Audrito, Giorgio | 
                Universitŕ degli Studi di Torino | 
               
               
                | Avilés, Antonio | 
                University of Murcia | 
               
               
                | Bartosova, Dana | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Bartoszynski, Tomek | 
                National Science Foundation | 
               
               
                | Beros, Kostas | 
                University of Wisconsin | 
               
               
                | Bice, Tristan | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Blackadar, Bruce | 
                University of Nevada, Reno | 
               
               
                | Blackmon, Michael | 
                University of North Carolina Charlotte | 
               
               
                | Blass, Andreas | 
                University of Michigan | 
               
               
                | Brech, Christina | 
                University of Săo Paulo | 
               
               
                | Brenken, Berndt | 
                University of Calgary | 
               
               
                | Brodsky, Ari | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Brown, Nate | 
                Pennsylvania State University | 
               
               
                | Burke, Maxim R. | 
                University of Prince Edward Island | 
               
               
                | Cancino-Manríquez, Jonathan | 
                UNAM-UMSNH | 
               
               
                | Chodounsky, David | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Clark, Lisa Orloff | 
                University of Otago | 
               
               
                | Cody, Brent | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Cox, Sean | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Dahya, Raj | 
                Křbenhavns Universitet | 
               
               
                | Dobrinen, Natasha | 
                University of Denver | 
               
               
                | Doucha, Michal | 
                Charles University in Prague | 
               
               
                | Dow, Alan | 
                UNC Charlotte | 
               
               
                | Drucker, Ohad | 
                The Hebrew University | 
               
               
                | Eagle, Christopher | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Effros, Edward | 
                University of California, Los Angeles | 
               
               
                | Elliott, George | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Eskew, Monroe | 
                UC Irvine | 
               
               
                | Farah, Ilijas | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Feng, Qi | 
                National University of Singapore | 
               
               
                | Fernández Bretón, David | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Ferro, Leonardo | 
                University of Madrid Carlos III | 
               
               
                | Fischer, Vera | 
                Kurt Goedel Research Center for Mathematical Logic | 
               
               
                | Floricel, Remus | 
                University of Regina | 
               
               
                | Garcia Balan, Sergio Atayan | 
                FCFM - BUAP | 
               
               
                | Gardella, Emilio | 
                University of Oregon | 
               
               
                | Gaspar Arreola, Miguel Angel | 
                Posgrado Conjunto en Ciencias Matemáticas UNAM-UMSNH | 
               
               
                | Ghasemi, Saeed | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Ghasemloo, Kaveh | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Guzman, Osvaldo | 
                Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas | 
               
               
                | Hadwin, Don | 
                University of New Hampshire | 
               
               
                | Hart, Bradd | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Hay, Daniel | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Hill, Aaron | 
                University of North Texas | 
               
               
                | Hrusak, Michael | 
                Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | 
               
               
                | Ioana, Adrian | 
                University of California, Los Angeles | 
               
               
                | Kada, Masaru | 
                Osaka Prefecture University | 
               
               
                | Kania, Tomasz | 
                Lancaster University | 
               
               
                | Katsura, Takeshi | 
                Keio University | 
               
               
                | Kaur, Rupinderjit | 
                SLIET | 
               
               
                | Kechris, Alexander | 
                California Institute of Technology | 
               
               
                | Kerr, David | 
                Texas A&M University | 
               
               
                | Komjáth, Péter | 
                Eötvös Loránd University | 
               
               
                | Koszmider, Piotr | 
                Polish Academy of Sciences | 
               
               
                | Koutsoukou Argyraki, Angeliki | 
                University of Copenhagen | 
               
               
                | Kuhnle, Alan | 
                University of Florida | 
               
               
                | Larson, Paul | 
                Miami University | 
               
               
                | Li, Zhiqiang | 
                Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Lin, Huaxin | 
                University of Oregon | 
               
               
                | Lindenhovius, Bert | 
                Radboud University Nijmegen | 
               
               
                | Lupini, Martino | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Lutley, James | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Magidor, Menachem | 
                Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 
               
               
                | Matharu, Jagjit Singh | 
                Guru Nanak Dev University College | 
               
               
                | McKenney, Paul | 
                Carnegie Mellon University | 
               
               
                | Melleray, Julien | 
                Université Lyon 1 | 
               
               
                | Mildenberger, Heike | 
                Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg | 
               
               
                | Miller, Arnold W. | 
                University of Wisconsin-Madison | 
               
               
                | Mitchell, William | 
                University of Florida | 
               
               
                | Moore, Justin Tatch | 
                Cornell University | 
               
               
                | Mota, Miguel Ángel | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Nashaat, Sherif | 
                McGill University | 
               
               
                | Nawata, Norio | 
                Chiba University | 
               
               
                | Ojeda Aristizabal, Diana Cristina | 
                Cornell University | 
               
               
                | Okayasu, Rui | 
                Osaka Kyoiku University | 
               
               
                | Orovitz, Joav | 
                Ben-Gurion University | 
               
               
                | Pachl, Jan | 
                Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Peng, Yinhe | 
                National University of Singapore | 
               
               
                | Petzka, Henning | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Phillips, N. Christopher | 
                University of Oregon | 
               
               
                | Pillai, Kripaini | 
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                | Rainone, Timothy | 
                Texas A&M University | 
               
               
                | Rawla, Mandeep Singh | 
                SLIET Longowal | 
               
               
                | Reznikoff, Sarah | 
                Kansas State University | 
               
               
                | Rinot, Assaf | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Robert, Leonel | 
                University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 
               
               
                | Rřrdam, Mikael | 
                University of Copenhagen | 
               
               
                | Rosendal, Christian | 
                University of Illinois at Chicago | 
               
               
                | Sabok, Marcin | 
                Polish Academy of Sciences | 
               
               
                | Sako, Hiroki | 
                Kyoto University | 
               
               
                | Santiago Moreno, Luis | 
                University of Oregon | 
               
               
                | Sasyk, Roman | 
                Instituto Argentino de Matematica | 
               
               
                | Shani, Assaf | 
                Hebrew University | 
               
               
                | Shi, Xianghui | 
                Beijing Normal University | 
               
               
                | Smythe, Iian | 
                Cornell University | 
               
               
                | Soukup, Dániel Tamás | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Steprans, Juris | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Tajiri, Shohei | 
                Osaka Prefecture University | 
               
               
                | Tall, Franklin | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Thomas, Simon | 
                Rutgers University | 
               
               
                | Tikuisis, Aaron | 
                Universität Münster | 
               
               
                | Todorcevic, Stevo | 
                University of Toronto and C.N.R.S., Paris | 
               
               
                | Toms, Andrew | 
                Purdue University | 
               
               
                | Tornetta, Gabriele | 
                University of Glasgow | 
               
               
                | Tornquist, Asger | 
                Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic | 
               
               
                | Tserunyan, Anush | 
                University of California, Los Angeles | 
               
               
                | Tucker-Drob, Robin | 
                California Institute of Technology | 
               
               
                | Veli?kovi?, Boban | 
                University of Paris - Diderot | 
               
               
                | Vignati, Alessandro | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Watson, Nicola | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Weaver, Nik | 
                Washington University | 
               
               
                | Weiss, William | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | White, Stuart | 
                University of Glasgow | 
               
               
                | Williams, Jay | 
                California Institute of Technology | 
               
               
                | Wilson, Trevor | 
                The Fields Institute | 
               
               
                | Winter, Wilhelm | 
                Universität Münster | 
               
               
                | Yorioka, Teruyuki | 
                Shizuoka University | 
               
               
                | Zacharias, Joachim | 
                University of Glasgow | 
               
               
                | Zapletal, Jindrich | 
                University of Florida | 
               
             
             
             
             
               
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