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                   Elliott Distinguished 
                    Visitor Lectures  
                    February 25 - March 27 
                  (video 
                    of the talks)  
                     
                    Speaker:  
                    Eberhard Kirchberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 
                     
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                         1 
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                      Towards ideal-system equivariant classification 
                        (Lecture 
                        Notes) 
                        Basic definitions and terminology, statement 
                          of the main results: Embedding Theorem, Theorem on realization 
                          of ${\mathrm{KK}(\mathcal{C}; \cdot,\cdot)}$) by C*-morphisms, 
                          On applications.  
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                         2 
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                      An ideal system equivariant Embedding 
                        Theorem (I) (Lecture 
                        Notes) 
                        A generalized Weyl-von-Neumann Theorem in 
                          the spirit of Voiculescu and Kasparov, Actions of topological 
                          spaces on C*-algebras versus matrix operator convex 
                          cones $\mathcal{C}$, related "universal" Hilbert 
                          bi-modules, Cone ${\mathcal{C}}$-dependent Ext-groups 
                          $\mathrm{Ext}(\mathcal{C};\, A,B)$, Related semi-groups. 
                         
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                         Ideal system equivariant Embedding Theorem (II) 
                          (Lecture 
                          Notes)  
                          C*-systems and its use for embedding results, 
                          the example of embeddings into $\mathcal{O}_2$, criteria 
                          for existence of ideal equivariant liftings, i.e. characterization 
                          of invertible elements in the extension semigroup. 
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                      Ideal system equivariant Embedding Theorem 
                        (III)  
                        Proof of a special case by construction of 
                          a suitable C*-system, Outline of the idea for the proof 
                          of the general case by study of asymptotic embeddings, 
                          using continuous versions of Rørdam semi-groups. 
                         
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                      Some properties of strongly purely infinite 
                        algebras 
                        Operations on the class of s.p.i. algebras, 
                          coronas and asymptotic algebras of strongly purely infinite 
                          algebras, tensorial absorption of $\mathcal{O}_\infty$, 
                          1-step innerness of residually nuclear c.p. maps. 
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                         6 
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                      Rørdam groups R($\mathcal{C};\, 
                        A,B)$ (I) 
                        Definition and properties of the natural group 
                          epimorphism from the $\mathcal{C}$-dependent Rørdam 
                          group R($\mathcal{C};\, A,B)$ onto Ext($\mathcal{SC}; 
                          A; SB$), reduction of the isomorphism problem to the 
                          question on homotopy invariance of R($\mathcal{C};\, 
                          A,B)$, Some cases of automatic homotopy invariance: 
                          the "absorbing" zero element. 
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                      Rørdam groups (II) 
                        Homotopy invariance of R($\mathcal{C};\, A,B)$, 
                          existence of C*-morphisms $\varphi:A \rightarrow B$ 
                          that represent the elements of R($\mathcal{C};\, A,B)$, 
                          proof of the Embedding Theorem in full generality.  
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                      Cone-related KK-groups KK($\mathcal{C};\, 
                        A,B)$) (I) 
                        Definition and basic properties of $\mathcal{C}$-related 
                          ($\mathbb{Z_2}$-graded) Kasparov groups KK($\mathcal{C};\, 
                          A,B$) for graded m.o.c. cones $\mathcal{C}$, the isomorphisms 
                          Ext($\mathcal{C};\, A,B$) $\cong$ KK($\mathcal{C_{(1)}};\, 
                          A,B_{(1)}$) and Ext($\mathcal{SC};\, A,SB$) $\cong$ 
                          KK($\mathcal{C};\, A,B$) in trivially graded case. Homotopy 
                          invariance of Ext($\mathcal{SC};\, A,SB$). The isomorphism 
                          Ext($\mathcal{SC};\, A,SB$) $\cong$ R($\mathcal{C};\, 
                          A,B$). 
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                         9 
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                      Cone-related KK-groups KK($\mathcal{C};\, 
                        A,B$) (II) 
                         
                        The $KK_{X}(A;B)$ := KK($\mathcal{C_{X}};\, 
                          A,B$) classification for X $\cong$ Prim(A) $\cong$ Prim(B), 
                          where A, B are stable amenable separable C*-algebras.Structure 
                          of the algebras with ideal-system preserving zero-homotopy. 
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               Some conclusions of the classication results and open questions 
                (Lecture Notes) 
                          Constructions of examples of algebras with 
                          given second countable locally compact sober $T_0$ spaces 
                          (not necessarily Hausdorff). Minimal requirement for 
                          a weak version of a universal coefficent theorem for 
                          ideal-equivariant classication, indications of possible 
                          equivariant versions for actions of compact groups (up 
                          to 2-cocycle equivalence).  
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