Program

Directions from your hotels to the conference venue can be found here.

All talks will take place in Tippie Auditorium located on the first floor of the Pappajohn Business Building.

Invited Speakers

The following mathematicians have agreed to speak at this conference

Remi Boutonnet Remi Boutonnet (University of California San Diego)

Uncountably Many Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers of II1 Factors
Ben Hayes Ben Hayes (Vanderbilt University)

Independence Tuples and Deninger's Problem
Daniel Hoff Daniel Hoff (University of California San Diego)

Unique Prime Factorization for Von Neumann Algebras of Equivalence Relations
Adrian Ioana Adrian Ioana (University of California San Diego)

Local Spectral Gap in Simple Lie Groups
David Kerr David Kerr (Texas AM University)

Tower Decompositions for Actions of Amenable Groups
Zhengwei Liu Zhengwei Liu (Harvard University)

Skein Theory for Subfactors
Joseph Migler Joseph Migler (Ohio State University)

Determinants in K-theory and Operator Algebras
Sorin Popa Sorin Popa (University of California Los Angeles)

Approximate equivalence of group actions
Rudy Rodsphon Rudy Rodsphon (Vanderbilt University)

Zeta Functions and Local Index Theory
Anna Skripka Anna Skripka (University of New Mexico)

Approximation of Operator Functions
Bogdan Udrea Bogdan Udrea (University of Iowa)

Generalized Q-gaussian von Neumann Algebras with Coefficients and Their Structural Properties
Wilhelm Minter Wilhelm Winter (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

QDQ vs. UCT

Schedule of Talks

The schedule of talks can be downloaded in pdf format here.