Detailed calendars

We are going to publish a detailed calender of the lectures of our semester bit by bit. Likewise, you can find a calender displaying who of our senior guests is going to stay for how long in Münster.

Note: The detailed calendars are now offline. Click here for a substitute.

Overview

May 4-29: Introductory section

Weeks	Title	Lecturer(s)	# of lectures
4.5.-22.5.	Introduction to KK-theory	Walther Paravicini	7
4.5.-22.5.	Crossed products and Morita equivalences	Siegfried Echterhoff	3
25.5.-29.5.	Index theory and KK-theory	Ryszard Nest, Georges Skandalis	4

1 lecture = 90 min

June 1-5: Topology conference in Münster organised by Wolfgang Lück by means of his Leibniz prize. Although this is not part of the Focused Semester at least some of the lectures might certainly be interesting for our guests.

June 8 - July 24: Advanced section

8.6.	Equivariant KK-theory, the descent homomorphism, the Green-Julg theorem	Siegfried Echterhoff	1
8.6.-12.6.	The Baum-Connes Conjecture (for torsion-free discrete groups and simply connected Lie groups)	Nigel Higson	2
8.6.-12.6.	The Dirac-dual Dirac method (lecture notes taken by Hang Wang and Dapeng Zhou)	Gennadi Kasparov	2
15.6.	The Dirac-dual Dirac method and the Baum-Connes conjecture	Siegfried Echterhoff	1
15.6.-19.6.	Trees, buildings and the BC conjecture - Baum-Connes conjecture and Harish-Chandra theory	Pierre Julg	2
22.6. and 24.6.	The Cuntz picture of KK-theory	Vahid Shirbisheh	2
23.6., 25.6. and 26.6.	Affine actions and the Baum-Connes conjecture	Erik Guentner	3
29./30.6. and 6./7.7.	KK-theory as a triangulated category	Ralf Meyer	2+2
30.6.	Introduction to the Farrell-Jones Conjecture	Wolfgang Lück	1
3.7.	Isomorphism conjectures and controlled topology	Arthur Bartels	1
7.7.	Minimal dynamics and classification	Wilhelm Winter	1
9.7. and 14.7.	Bivariant K-theory for smooth manifolds	Heath Emerson	2
13.7.	KK^ban and the Bost conjecture - the details (complement to a talk by Maria Paula Gomez-Aparicio)	Walther Paravicini	1
14.7.	Applications of Cone-depending KK-theory	Eberhard Kirchberg	1
20.5.-17.7.	Students' seminar	-	2 per week

The "students' seminar" is co-organised by Prahlad Vaidyanathan and will take place once or twice a week, depending on what other lectures are scheduled. It is an opportunity for our junior guests to present their research projects to each other. Here is a list of the topics covered which I update regularly (usually, a session of the seminar will consist of two talks of about 45 min length):

20.5.	C*-bundles and their K-theory	Prahald Vaidyanathan
20.5.	Z/k manifolds and K-homology with Z/k-coefficients	Robin Deeley
22.5.	C*-algebras generated by C*-correspondences and applications to quantum spheres	Dave Robertson
22.5.	Planar algebras	Claire Shelly
27.5.	KK-Theory for Cuntz-Pimsner Algebras	Christina Cerny
27.5.	Poisson Geometry aspects of Non-Commutative Geometry	Hanh Duc Do
29.5.	Kadison's Similarity Problem for Z-stable C*-algebras	Miroslava Johanesova
29.5.	Introduction to Atiyah Conjecture	Łukasz Grabowski
12.6.	On almost representations of groups with property (T)	Chao You
12.6.	Property RD for Hecke pairs	Vahid Shirbisheh
18.6.	Coarse geometry and the Baum-Connes conjecture	Rufus Willett
18.6.	Morphims of spectral triples and an algebraic formula for he Kasparov product	Bram Mesland
19.6.	-	Roger Senior
19.6.	Gap-labelling of the pinwheel tiling	Haija Moustafa
23.6.	-	Maria Paula Gomez-Apraicio
23.6.	Hilbert modules and intertwining operators for the principal series	Pierre Clare
2.7.	The Elliott conjecture and dimension theories of C*-algebras	Hannes Thiel
2.7.	Twists of Isometries	Moritz Weber
3.7.	The Baum-Connes conjecture for p-adic SL2	Tyrone Crisp
8.7.	Twisted K-theory and the fractional index theorem	Elkaioum Moutuou
8.7.	-	Dapeng Zhou
10.7.	-	Manuel Köhler
10.7.	-	Shilin Yu
17.7.	-	Robin Hillier
17.7.	Heat kernel and index theorem	Hang Wang

July 20-24: Research Workshop on KK-Theory and its applications

Permanent activities:

21.4.-14.7.	Seminar of our work group	-	1 per week	tue, 3:15 pm
30.4.-16.7.	Aspects of K-homology	Michael Joachim	1 per week	thu, 2 pm