Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, March 11, 12, 2000

Schedule of talks

All talks will take place in Room 2112, Girvetz Hall.

Saturday, March 11, 2000

  • 8:30 - 9:10
  • Sorin Popa, UCLA
  • Title: A representation theory for standard lattices

  • 9:20 - 10:00 cancelled
  • Adrian Ocneanu, Penn State University
  • Title: The classification of higher Coxeter ADE graphs, and the finite subgroups of quantum SU(3)

    10:10 - 10:50

  • Vaughan Jones, Berkeley
  • Title: A new approach to index less than four subfactors

    11:10 - 12:00 -- Invited Address

  • Dietmar Bisch, UCSB
  • Title: Analytical and Combinatorial Aspects of Subfactors
  • Room 1004, Girvetz Hall

    Lunch Break

    1:30 - 2:20 -- Invited Address

  • Yair Minsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Title: The classification problem for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
  • Room 1004, Girvetz Hall

    3:00 - 3:40

  • Hsiang-Ping Huang, Berkeley
  • Title: Commutators associated to a subfactor and the relative commutant

    3:50 - 4:30

  • Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA
  • Title: Microstates free entropy and cost of equivalence relations

    4:40 - 5:20

  • Michael Anshelevich, Berkeley
  • Title: Free stochastic measures via noncrossing partitions

    5:30 - 6:10

  • Florin Radulescu, University of Iowa
  • Title: A quantum dynamics generator in free group factor(s) constructed out of operators with automorphic symbol

    Sunday, March 12, 2000

    8:30 - 9:10

  • Uffe Haagerup, Odense University
  • Title: Invariant Subspaces for Voiculescu's Circular Operator (joint work with K. Dykema)

    9:20 - 10:00

  • Dan Voiculescu, Berkeley
  • Title: The coalgebra of the free difference quotient in free probability theory

    10:10 - 10:50

  • Philippe Biane, ENS Paris
  • Title: Free diffusions and matrix models

    11:10 - 12:00 -- Invited Address

  • Ram Murty, Queen's University
  • Title: Zeta functions and Dirichlet series
  • Room 1004, Girvetz Hall

    Lunch Break

    1:30 - 2:20 -- Invited Address

  • Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UCI
  • Title: 1D Quasiperiodic operators. Arithmetics and localization
  • Room 1004, Girvetz Hall

    3:00 - 3:40

  • Antony Wassermann, Luminy/CNRS and Cambridge University
  • Title: Fusion of Positive Energy Representations of LE8 using von Neumann algebras

    3:50 - 4:30

  • Feng Xu, University of Oklahoma
  • Title: Algebraic orbifold conformal field theories

    4:40 - 5:20

  • Teodor Banica, Berkeley
  • Title: Compact Kac algebras and subfactors

    5:30 - 6:10

  • Hans Wenzl, UCSD
  • Title: Braid representations and tensor categories

    End of conference