Program

Directions from your hotels to the conference venue can be found All talks will take place in the auditorium LR2 located on the first floor of the Van Allen Hall.

There is a registration fee of 25$ payable in cash at the registration site. The organizers anticipate this will be reimbursed integrally.

On Saturday evening between 7:00-9:00pm there will be a workshop dinner in the Black Box Theater Room located in Iowa Memorial Union.

WARNING: This weekend there is an art festival in downtown Iowa City. Consequently, we are including below some directions from your hotel to the conference venue:

  • here is a map highlighting directions to the conference and dinners rooms, parking lots available, and the streets affected by the festival
  • here are directions from the conference room to the dinner room
  • here are directions from the hotel to the dinner room

    • Invited Speakers

    The following mathematicians have agreed so far to speak at this workshop:

    Michael Anshelevich Michael Anshelevich (Texas AM University)

    Operator-valued Jacobi parameters

    Joseph Ball Joseph Ball (Virginia Tech University)

    Multivariable tensorial formal power series and a correspondence-based Schur-Agler class: preliminary results
    Hari Bercovici Hari Bercovici (Indiana University)

    Outlying eigenvalues for polynomial functions of two random matrices
    Florin Boca Florin Boca (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

    Statistics of Farey fractions and distribution of eigenvalues in large sieve matrices
    Danny Crytser Danny Crytser (Kansas State University)

    Traces arising from regular inclusions
    Ken Dykema Ken Dykema (Texas AM University)

    Haagerup-Schultz projections, upper triangular forms and spectrality of Dixmier traces
    Marius Ionescu Marius Ionescu (US Naval Academy)

    Obstructions to lifting cocycles on groupoids and the associated C*-algebras
    Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi (Drexel University)

    Contractive determinantal representations of stable polynomials on a matrix polyball
    Steve Kaliszewski Steve Kaliszewski (Arizona State University)

    Exotic crossed products and coaction functors
    Gabriel Nagy Gabriel Nagy (Kansas State University)

    Simple C*-inclusions via state extensions
    Joseph Noles Joseph Noles (Texas AM University)

    Convergence properties and upper-triangular forms in finite von Neumann algebras
    James Pascoe James Pascoe (Washington University in St. Louis)

    Regular and positive noncommutative rational functions
    Thomas Sinclair Thomas Sinclair (Purdue University)

    Model theory of C*-algebras as operator systems
    Leonard Stevenson Leonard Stevenson (Drexel University)

    Higher order non-commutative functions
    Stefanie Wang Stefanie Wang (Iowa State University)

    Almost-periodic functions and representations of the free group on two generators
    Eric Weber Eric Weber (Iowa State University)

    Sampling in de Branges spaces of entire functions

    Schedule of Talks

    The schedule of talks can be downloaded in pdf format here. Faculty and postdocs talks are 45 minutes long and graduate students talks are 20 minuts long.