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                | THE 
                  FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES | 
               
               
                
       
         
                    
                       
                        
               
                 
                            January-June 
                              2014  
                              Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, 
                              Banach and Operator Algebras 
                            
                  March-April: 
                   
                  Banach and Operator Algebras over Groups 
                  Organizer: 
                  Garth Dales 
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         March 27, Thursday   
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         10:00 a.m 
          Stewart Library. 
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      Nico Spronk 
        (slides) 
        Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes Algebras, and their Operator Space Structure, 
        Lecture 1 | 
     
     
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         2:00 p.m. 
          Room 230 
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         Eberhard Kaniuth (slides) 
          Spectral Synthesis, Ideals and Homomorphisms, lecture 1  
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         March 28, Friday   
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         10:00 a.m. 
          Stewart Library.  
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      Nico Spronk  
        Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes Algebras, and their Operator Space Structure, 
        Lecture 2 | 
     
     
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         2:00 p.m. 
          Room 230  
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         Eberhard Kaniuth (slides) 
          Spectral Synthesis, Ideals and Homomorphisms, Lecture 2  
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         March 31, Monday 
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         10:00 a.m. 
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         Nico Spronk  
          Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes Algebras, and their Operator Space 
          Structure, Lecture 3 
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         12:00 p.m. 
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      Ivan Todorov (slides) 
        Herz-Schur Multipliers and Related Group Properties, Lecture 1 | 
     
     
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         April 1, Tuesday  
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         10:00 a.m. 
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         Narutaka Ozawa  
          Approximation Properties for Group C*-Algebras, Lecture 1  
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         11:00 a.m. 
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      Ivan Todorov  
        Herz-Schur Multipliers and Related Group Properties, Lecture 2  | 
     
     
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         2:00 p.m. 
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                   Nico Spronk 
                    (video) 
          Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes Algebras, and their Operator Space 
          Structure, Lecture 4 
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         April 2, Wednesday  
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         10:00 a.m. 
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         Narutaka Ozawa 
          Approximation Properties for Group C*-Algebras, Lecture 2 
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         12:00 p.m. 
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      Ivan Todorov (slides) 
        Herz-Schur Multipliers and Related Group Properties, Lecture 3  | 
     
     
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         2:00 p.m. 
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         Eberhard Kaniuth (slides) 
          Spectral Synthesis, Ideals and Homomorphisms, Lecture 3  
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          April 3, Thursday 
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         10:00 a.m. 
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       Narutaka 
        Ozawa 
        Approximation Properties for Group C*-Algebras, Lecture 3  | 
     
     
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         11:00 a.m. 
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       Ivan Todorov (slides) 
        Herz-Schur Multipliers and Related Group Properties, Lecture 4  | 
     
     
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         2:00 p.m.  
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         Eberhard Kaniuth  
          Spectral Synthesis, Ideals and Homomorphisms, Lecture 4  
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         3:30 p.m. 
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       Ali Ulger 
        Weak-* closed ideals of A(G) and spectral synthesis | 
     
     
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         April 4, Friday 
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         10:00 a.m. 
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         Narutaka Ozawa  
          Approximation Properties for Group C*-Algebras, Lecture 4 
           
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                    |  SCHEDULE 
                      FOR SPECIALIZED LECTURES  | 
                   
                   
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                       April 7, Monday  
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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                      Lyudmila Turowska 
                      Synthesis in harmonic analysis and operator theory, Lecture 
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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                    Charles 
                      Read 
                      Operator algebras and contractive approximate identities, 
                      Lecture 1 | 
                   
                   
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                       3:30 p.m.  
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                    Lyudmila 
                      Turowska 
                      Synthesis in harmonic analysis and operator theory, Lecture 
                      2 | 
                   
                   
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                       April 8, Tuesday 
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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                      Nico Spronk  
                      On subalgebras of Fourier-Stieltjes algebras | 
                   
                   
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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                        Charles Read 
                        Operator algebras and contractive approximate identities, 
                        Lecture 2 
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                       3:30 p.m. 
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                     Monica 
                      Illie  
                      Completely bounded homomorphisms of the Fourier algebras | 
                   
                   
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                       April 9, Wednesday 
                         
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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                    Charles 
                      Read 
                      Operator algebras and contractive approximate identities, 
                      Lecture 3 | 
                   
                   
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                       3:30 p.m. 
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                        Cho-Ho Chu  
                        Automatic continuity in non-associative Banach algebras 
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                       April 10, Thursday  
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             10:00 a.m. 
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           To-Ming 
            Lau (slides) 
                      Complemented subspaces of the group von Neumann algebras | 
                   
                   
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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                      Ed Granirer  
                      Some geometric properties of Banach algebras related 
                      to the Fourier algebra | 
                   
                   
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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                      David Blecher  
                      Aspects of positivity in operator algebras  | 
                   
                   
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                       3:30 p.m. 
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                        Matthew Mazowita 
                        Topological centres and weighted convolution algebras 
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                       April 11, Friday 
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                       10:00 a.m. 
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                      Zhong-Jin Ruan 
                      Some local properties of group and quantum group C*-algebras | 
                   
                   
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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                        Zhiguo Hu  
                        Convolution algebras associated with locally compact 
                        groups 
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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                        Yong Zhang 
                        Weak amenability of weighted group algebras 
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                       April 14, Monday (Room 230) 
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                       10:00 a.m. 
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          Matthias Neufang 
            (slides)  
                      Recent advances on Arens (ir)regularity  | 
                   
                   
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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                    Garth 
                      Dales (slides) 
                      Approximate identities in Banach function algebras and 
                      BSE norms | 
                   
                   
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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           Yemon 
            Choi (slides) 
                      Weak amenability of Fourier algebras: old and new results | 
                   
                   
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                       3:30 p.m. 
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                        Mahya Ghandehari  
                        Weak amenability of the Fourier algebra of the Heisenberg 
                        group 
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                       April 15, Tuesday (Room 230)  
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                       10:00 a.m. 
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          Volker Runde  
            (slides) 
                      Connes-amenability of Fourier-Stieltjes algebras | 
                   
                   
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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          Hung Le 
            Pham (slides) 
                      Contractive homomorphisms from the Fourier algebras | 
                   
                   
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                       2:00 p.m. 
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          Matthias 
            Neufang (slides) 
                      Injectivity and (quantum group) amenability  | 
                   
                   
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                       April 16, Wednesday (Room 230) 
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                       10:00 a.m 
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                    Matthew 
                      Wiersma 
                      Group C*-algebra norms between the full and reduced norms 
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                       11:30 a.m. 
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                    Keith Taylor 
                       
                      Generalized Wavelet Transforms | 
                   
                 
               
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