Past schedule of the Linear Analysis Seminar

Fall 2006 Schedule:

• 12/01, Roger Smith, Texas A&M University, Cones arising from C*-subalgebras and complete positivity

• 11/17, David Blecher, University of Houston, Von Neumann algebraic H^p function theory and the Fuglede-Kadison determinant

• 11/10, Hun Hee Lee, Seoul National University, A Maurey type result for operator spaces

• 11/07, *** Special Day: Tuesday *** Richard Haydon, Oxford University, Types and Random Measures Revisited

• 11/03, Ted Odell (University of Texas) gives one of his Frontiers talks.

• 10/27, Stuart White, Texas A&M University, Values of the Pukanszky Invariant in McDuff II_1 Factors

• 10/20, Mark Tomforde, University of Houston, Graph C*-algebras --- Examples and Techniques

• 10/13, Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University, Spectral flow and eigenvalue multiplicity

• 10/04, **** Note: special day, a Wednesday **** Fumiko Futamura, Vanderbilt University, Localized Operators and the Construction of Localized Frames

• 09/15, David Sherman, UC-Santa Barbara Closed unitary orbits in von Neumann algebras

• 09/08, Julien Giol, Texas A&M University, On the geometry of projections in von Neumann algebras

• 09/01, at the Geometry Seminar: Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University, Complex geometry and operator theory

Spring 2006 Schedule:

• 5/12, Evgeny Semenov, Voronezh State University, Russia, Banach limits.

• 4/28, Beatriz Abadie, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay and Texas A&M University, Pimsner C*-algebras and crossed products by Hilbert C*-bimodules

• 4/07, Joachim Cuntz, University of Muenster, Extensions and K-homology for locally convex algebras

• 3/31, Stuart White, University of Glasgow, Semi-regular masas of transfinite length.

• 2/24, Christian Houdré, Georgia Institute of Technology, Limiting Distributions in Some Longest Increasing or Common Subsequence Problems.

• 2/23 (special day and time, Thurs. 2:30-3:30pm), Nico Spronk, University of Waterloo, Amenability properties of Fourier-Stieltjes algebras.

• 2/17, Anna Skripka, University of Missouri-Columbia, The Birman-Schwinger principle in finite factors.

• 3/03, David Larson, Texas A&M University, Separating vectors, cyclic commutants, and counterexamples

• 2/10, Alan Wiggins, Texas A&M University, The Equivalence of Singularity and Strong Singularity for MASA's in II_1 factors.

• 2/03, Stefan Bildea, University of Houston, Singularity of the radial subalgebra in tensor powers of two classes of group von Neumann algebras.

• 1/27, Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA, A Free Analog of Shannon's Question on Monotonicity of Entropy.

• 1/20, Eric Weber, Iowa State University, Wavelet Transforms and Admissible Group Representations.

Fall 2005 Schedule:

• 12/02, Bill Johnson, Texas A&M University, Revisiting Grothendieck's "approximation property implies metric approximation property" theorem.

• 11/11, Erik Christensen, University of Copenhagen, Spectral triples and non commutative compact metric spaces

• 11/04, no seminar due to the conference on Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamics

• 10/28, Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University, On the Structure of the Square of a C_0(1) Operator,

• 10/21, Hanne Schultz, University of Southern Denmark, The Invariant Subspace Problem Relative to a Factor of Type II_1

• 10/21, (special time 3-4pm, special room Milner 216) Narcisse Radriantoanina, Miami University, Subspaces of noncommutative Lp spaces

• 10/14, Javier Parcet, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Noncommutative Lp spaces: Intersections and cb-embeddings,

• 10/07, Michael Lauzon, Swarthmore College, Harmonic analysis on inhomogeneous spaces (and space-filling curves), (or .pdf).

• 09/30, David Kerr, Texas A&M University, Characterizing positive topological entropy

• 09/22 (special day, Thurs. 4-5pm), the third Frontiers talk of Professor Nikolai Nikolski

• 09/14, (special day, Wed. 4-5pm), Anthony Yew, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Compactness and Approximation Property with Respect to an Operator Space

• 09/09, Gilles Pisier, Texas A&M University, Bounded generation and amenability of C*-algebras

Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 Schedule.

Spring 2004 Schedule:

• 04/30, Vrej Zarikian, University of Texas, Algorithms for Operator Algebra Calculations, and Applications.

• 04/23, Monica Ilie, Texas A&M University, Completely bounded homomorphisms of the Fourier algebra.

• 04/16, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Hyperinavariant subspaces for some B-circular operators.

• 04/02, this time used for the third of Vern Paulsen's Frontiers talks.

• 03/12, Andras Zsak, Texas A&M University, Partial Unconditionality in Banach Spaces.

• 03/05, Carl Pearcy, Texas A&M University, A technique for producing hyperinvariant subspaces.

• 02/27, Nicolas Monod, University of Chicago, Some applications of bounded cohomology.

• 02/20, Ilia Binder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Harmonic measure: polynomial Julia sets and sharp bounds. *** joint seminar with Harmonic Analysis ***

• 02/13, Roger Smith, Texas A&M University, The Pukanszky invariant in group von Neumann algebras.

• 01/30, Nigel Kalton, University of Missouri at Columbia, Decoupling in quasi-Banach spaces

Fall 2003 Schedule:

• 11/25, 1-2pm *** Note special day and time ***,
  Niels Jakob Laustsen, University of Copenhagen, Closed ideals in the Banach algebra of operators on a Banach space.

• 11/21, Kenley Jung, University of California, Berkeley, Fractal Dimensions in Free Probability and a Hyperfinite Inequality.

• 11/14, Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University, Berezin Transform, C*-algebras and Commutator Ideals.

• 11/07, this time used for the third of Ed Effros' Frontiers talks.

• 10/31, Gadadhar Misra, Indian Statistics Institute, Bangalore, Homogeneous Operators.

• 10/24, Bill Johnson, Texas A&M University, Weakly null sequences in L_1.

• 10/17, Keri Kornelson, Texas A&M University, Sums of rank-one operators, with applications to frames.

• 10/03, Nico Spronk, Texas A&M University, Representing Group Algebras in Spaces of Completely Bounded Maps.

• 09/26, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Manifold structure of spaces of spherical tight frames.

• 09/19, Lars Aagaard, University of Southern Denmark (visiting Texas A&M University), Non-microstates free entropy dimension of DT-operators.

• 09/12, Lars Aagaard, University of Southern Denmark (visiting Texas A&M University), Introduction to free entropy.

Spring 2003 Schedule:

• 04/25, William Johnson, Texas A&M University, The stochastic approximation property for Banach spaces.

• 04/11, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Solid von Neumann algebras, part II (after Narutaka Ozawa).

• 03/28, Micheal Anshelevich, UC-Riverside, Linearization coefficients for orthogonal polynomials using stochastic processes,
  (joint seminar with the Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar).

• 03/21, Stanislav Smirnov, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SLE and scaling limits.

• 03/18, Sorin Popa, UCLA, The amenability-rigidity antinomy in the study of type II_1 factors.

• 02/28, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Solid von Neumann algebras (after Narutaka Ozawa).

• 02/21, this time used by G. Robertson for the third of his Frontiers talks.

• 02/14, Tao Mei, Texas A&M University, On the duality between noncommutative H^1 and BMO.

• 02/07, Lizhong Peng, Peking University, Parameterization of univariate and bivariate tight wavelet frames with short support.

• 01/31, Gilles Pisier, Texas A&M University, Why embeddings of the operator Hilbert space into noncommutative L1 require type III.

• 01/24, Hanfeng Li, University of Toronto, Morita equivalence of higher dimensional noncommutative tori.

Fall 2002 Schedule:

• 12/06, Irfan Al-Haq, Prairie View A&M University, BMO_\alpha^p Spaces and Their Properties.

• 11/22, Tamas Erdelyi, Texas A&M University, The uniform closure of non-dense rational spaces on the unit interval.

• 11/15, Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University, Quotient Hilbert modules and C*-extensions.

• 11/01, Asma Harcharras, University of Missouri, New examples of noncommutative Lambda(p) sets.

• 10/25, Junhao Shen, University of Pennsylvania, Generator problems for von neumann algebras, free probability and free entropy.

• 10/18, David Blecher, University of Houston, The double commutant theorem and generators.

• 10/11, Alexandre Nou, Université de Franche-Comté, (Besançon), Non injectivity for the q-von Neumann algebra.

• 9/27, Nicolaas Spronk, Texas A&M University, Measurable Schur multipliers and completely bounded multipliers of the Fourier algebra.

• 9/20, Ciprian Pop, Texas A&M University, Crossed products and entropy of automorphisms.

• 9/13, Wilhelm Winter, Texas A&M University and University of Münster, Covering Dimension for Nuclear C*-Algebras and Classification.

Spring 2002 Schedule:

• 4/26, Prof. Stephen Dilworth, University of Texas, (on leave from University of South Carolina), Bases for which the greedy algorithm works, (abstract also avaialble in dvi and ps formats).

• 4/19, Prof. Larry Baggett, University of Colorado, Wavelets and the spectral multiplicity function.

• 4/12, Prof. Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Subfactors of free product factors.

• 4/5, Prof. Florin Radulescu, University of Iowa, On Connes' embedding problem.

• 3/22, Prof. Serban Stratila, University of Iowa (on leave from Univeristy of Bucharest), The commutation theorem for tensor products of von Neumann algebras over subalgebras.

• 3/8, (joint with Approximation Theory seminar), Professor Emeritus George G. Lorentz, University of Texas, Mathematics and Politics in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1953.

• 2/22, Prof. Allan Sinclair, Edinburgh University, Unitary perturbations of masas in type II_1 factors.

• 2/15, Prof. Ziemowit Rzeszotnik, University of Texas, Partial solutions to two problems of Larson on wavelets.

• 2/8, Prof. Nathanial Brown, Michigan State University, An analogue of Szego's limit theorem for self adjoint operators.

• 2/1, Prof. Tamas Erdelyi, Texas A&M University, The full Clarkson-Erdos-Schwartz Theorem on the uniform closure of non-dense Muntz spaces.

• 1/25, Prof. David Swanson, Texas A&M University, Area, coarea and rectifiability.

• 1/18, Prof. Guergana Petrova, Texas A&M University, Best basis selection in Lp.

Fall 2001 Schedule:

• 11/30, Prof. Stas Kupin, California Institute of Technology, On inverse spectral problems for differential operators of Schrödinger type.

• 11/16, Prof. Roger Smith, Texas A&M University, Multilinear maps on finite factors.

• 11/09, Prof. Nathanial Brown, Michigan State University, Dense subalgebras of McDuff factors.

• 11/02, Prof. Andrzej Zuk, University of Chicago, Random groups and property T.

• 10/26, this time used by Prof. R. Grigorchuk for the third of his Frontiers talks.

• 10/12, Prof. Gilles Pisier, Texas A&M University, Grothendieck's theorem for operator spaces.

• 10/05, Prof. Keri Kornelson, Texas A&M University, Local solvability of Laplacian difference operators arising from the discrete Heisenberg group.

• 09/28, this time used by Prof. A. Pelczynski for the third of his Frontiers talks.

• 09/07, Prof. Allan Sinclair, Edinburgh University, Singular masas in type II-1 factors

• 08/31, Prof. Piotr Sniady, University of Wroclaw and Texas A&M, Brown measure.

Spring 2001 Schedule:

Fall 2000 Schedule:

• 12/01, Prof. May Nilsen, Texas A&M Univeristy, Approximation properties for crossed products by actions and coactions

• 11/17, Prof. Alexei Alexandrov, Steklov Insitute, St. Petersburg, Translation and rotation invariant subspaces of L^p(R)

• 11/10, Prof. Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Spectral invariant subspaces of Voiculescu's circular operator

• 11/03, (2nd talk) Prof. Marianna Csornyei, University College London, On the visibility of invisible sets

• 11/03, (1st talk) Prof. Bernard Chevraeu, University of Bordeaux, On dual algebras generated by pairs of contractions

• 10/27, Dr. Sergey Neshveyev, Institute for Low Temp. Physics, Kharkov and MSRI, On the Bost-Connes dynamical system

• 10/20, this time used by Bruce Blackadar for the third of his Frontiers talks.

• 10/13, Victor Lomonosov, Kent State University, The Bishop-Phelps Theorem fails for uniform non-selfadjoint dual Operator Algebras

• 10/06, Siegfried Echterhoff, University of Münster, Permanence properties of the Baum-Connes conjecture