Student Working Seminar in Groups and Dynamics

Date: March 22, 2019

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: BLOC 506A

Speaker: Alex Weygandt

Title: A crash course in operator K-Theory

Abstract: Operator K-Theory is a pair of functors, associating to each C^*-algebra A a pair of abelian groups K_0(A) and K_1(A), containing information about the structure of A. In this talk, I will show how these groups are constructed, some basic computational tools, and (time permitting) the calculation of K-groups of C*-algebras associated to groups and dynamics.