Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry

in honour of the 60th birthday of Joachim Cuntz

Wednesday, September 24 --- Saturday, September 27, 2008

Muenster (Germany)

Organized by: Alain Connes, Siegfried Echterhoff, Wolfgang Lueck, Michael Puschnigg, Georges Skandalis

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Important information: The conference dinner has been moved from Saturday evening to Friday evening. One can register for conference dinner here, where you also find a selection of three different menues to choose from. The price for the dinner party will be 30 EUROs (resp. 20 EUROs for students) per person (including drinks). The party takes place at the Restaurant Laguna Blue, Steinfurterstr. 104, Muenster.

We ask all participants which are fully funded by our institute to provide a conference fee of 50 EUROs.

This fee includes the price for the dinner party. The conference fee or the fee for the dinner party will be collected at the registration desk or can be paid during the conference at office 402 (Elke Koerner).

Registration for the dinner party will end on Tuesday, September 23.

Schedule of talks

All talks take place at lecture hall M5, Mathematisches Institut,

Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Einsteinstr. 62, 48149 Muenster.

Wednesday, September 24
8:30 - 9:20	Registration in Room 402
9:20 - 9:30	Welcome
9:30 - 10:15	Richard Kadison	Pythagoras, Schur-Horn: Notes on non-commutative Euclidean geometry
	Coffee break(and registration)
10:45 - 11:30	Sergio Doplicher	Quantum spacetime and non-commutative geometry
11:45 - 12:30	Michael Puschnigg	The Chern-Connes character
	Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45	Ralf Meyer	Geometric equivariant bivariant K-theory
	Tea/Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00	Guillermo Cortinas	Algebraic K-theory of algebraic Cuntz-Krieger algebras / Equivariant algebraic kk.
17:15 - 18:00	Andreas Thom	Hyperlinear groups and the factorization property
Thursday, September 25
9:30 - 10:15	Mikael Rordam	Simple C*-algebras, past and present
	Tea/Coffee break
10:40 - 11:25	Eberhard Kirchberg	Some actions of locally compact groups on O_2
11:35 - 12:20	Wilhelm Winter	Topological and algebraic regularity properties of nuclear C*-algebras
	Lunch break
15:00 -15:45	George Elliott	How useful ist the Cuntz semigroup?
	Tea/Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00	Bruce Blackadar	Does bivariant K-theory see complex structure?
17:15 - 18:00	Marc Rieffel	Dirac operators for coadjoint orbits of compact semisimple Lie groups.
Friday, September 26
9:30 - 10:15	Alain Connes	A unitary invariant in Riemannian Geometry
	Tea/Coffee break
10:45 - 11:30	Genadi Kasparov	Transversally elliptic operators and K-theory.
11:45 - 12:30	Nigel Higson	The Connes-Kasparov isomorphism, Mackey's analogy, and parameters for representations.
	Lunch break
15:00 - 15:45	Peter Schneider	p-adic group algebras in number theory
	Tea/Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00	Jonathan Rosenberg	Beginnings of a noncommutative theory of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations.
17:15 - 18:00	Guoliang Yu	Decomposition complexity and the stable Borel conjecture.
19:00	Dinner Party at Laguna Blue
Saturday, September 27
9:30 - 10:15	Dan Voiculescu	Free Analysis: the analogue of the Riemann sphere
10:30 - 11:15	Uffe Haagerup	The Effros-Ruan conjecture and dilation problems for completely positive maps.
	Tea/Coffee break
11:45 - 12:30	Ryszard Nest	Spectral flow associated to KMS-states with periodic KMS group action
12:45 - 13:30	Roberto Longo	SUSY in the conformal world

How to get here: we can offer some travel information (german version); in case you want to use local public transportation we have some information about the bus lines; for a link to a local map showing the location of the Mathematics Department click here.

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Siegfried Echterhoff

Last modified: Tue September 18 10:02:35 CEST 2008