Workshop: Representation Theory and Operator Algebras
- Date: Mon, 1 - Fri, 5 Jul 2013
- Location: Conference Room 7.15, Level 7, Innova 21 building
- Contact: Peter Hochs Organiser
- Mathai Varghese Organiser
- Adam Rennie Organiser
- Anne Thomas Organiser
This interdisciplinary workshop will be about aspects of representation theory (in the sense of Harish-Chandra), aspects of noncommutative geometry (in the sense of Alain Connes) and aspects of operator K-theory (in the sense of Gennadi Kasparov).
Titles of individual lectures:
- The Geometry of the Weyl Character Formula
- A Sketch of Harish-Chandra's Theory for Noncompact Groups
- Baum-Connes versus Beilinson-Bernstein
- Contractions of Lie Groups and the Mackey Analogy
- On the Category of Tempered Representations
Other invited speakers:
- Michael Cowling (University of New South Wales)
- Loek Helminck (North Carolina State University)
- Peter Hochs (University of Adelaide)
- Tony Licata (Australian National University)
- Aidan Sims (University of Wollongong)
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Schedule
| Day | Time | Program point / speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 9:30 am – 10 am | Refreshments |
| 10 am – noon | Nigel Higson | |
| Noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch break | |
| 1:30 pm – 2 pm | Refreshments | |
| 2 pm – 3 pm | Loek Helminck | |
| Tuesday | 9:30 am – 10 am | Refreshments |
| 10 am – noon | Nigel Higson | |
| Noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch break | |
| 1:30 pm – 2 pm | Refreshments | |
| 2 pm – 3 pm | Aidan Sims | |
| 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm | Peter Hochs | |
| Wednesday | 9:30 am – 10 am | Refreshments |
| 10 am – noon | Nigel Higson | |
| Noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch break | |
| 1:30 pm – 2 pm | Refreshments | |
| 2 pm – 3 pm | Tony Licata | |
| 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm | Adam Rennie | |
| Thursday | 9:30 am – 10 am | Refreshments |
| 10 am – noon | Nigel Higson | |
| From 18:00 | Conference dinner | |
| Friday | 9:30 am – 10 am | Refreshments |
| 10 am – 11 am | Nigel Higson | |
| 11 am – noon | Michael Cowling | |
| 12:10 pm – 1 pm | Nigel Higson (differential geometry seminar) | |
| 3:10 pm – 4 pm | Nigel Higson (School colloquium) |
Participant information
Venue
On all days except Wednesday, presentations will be given in the conference room on level 7 of the Ingkarni Wardli building. On Wednesday the 3rd, the talks will be in room 5.57, on the fifth floor of the same building. Higson's talks in the differential geometry seminar and the School colloquium on Friday will be in different rooms, to be announced later.
Registration
There will be no registration fees: all are welcome. However, if you are interested in attending, kindly send an e-mail to Peter Hochs by 5 June 2013, with the following information:
- Name
- Position and Affiliation
Please also indicate in your e-mail whether you would like to attend the workshop dinner (Thursday evening, 4th July), which will be $7 per person.
Funding
This event is co-sponsored by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI). AMSI allocates a travel allowance to each of its member universities (for a list of members, click here). Students or Early Career Researchers from AMSI member universities without access to a suitable research grant or other source of funding may apply to their Head of Mathematical Sciences for subsidy of travel and accommodation out of the departmental travel allowance. No other funding is available.
Accommodation
Participants, other than the invited speakers, are asked to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Internet access
The University of Adelaide provides wireless access for visitors whose home institutions have eduroam. For more information on how to set up eduroam, please click here.
Organisers
Peter Hochs
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Adelaide
North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5005
Phone: (08) 8313 4891
Fax: (08) 8313 3696
E-mail: Peter
Mathai Varghese
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Adelaide
North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5005
Phone: (08) 8313 4173
Fax: (08) 8313 3696
E-mail: Mathai
Adam Rennie
School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Phone: (02) 4221 3822
Fax: +61 (02) 4221 4845
E-mail: Adam
Anne Thomas
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Phone: +61 2 9351 1917
Fax: +61 2 9351 4534
E-mail: Anne
