Submitted by jlongwor on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:58am.
Dec 3 2009 - 4:00pm
Dec 3 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Professor G. Srinivasan
Location:
MS 431
We shall briefly recapitulate some of the things discussed in the past three lectures and proceed to introduce the Cohomology of Sheaves and recast the Cousin problems in terms of Sheaf Cohomology
Submitted by jlongwor on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 9:40am.
Nov 26 2009 - 4:00pm
Nov 26 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Shawn McCann
Location:
MS 431
In this talk, the notions of hypertraces, injective modules and completely positive maps are developed and will be the main tools for characterizing the Connes’ Embedding Problem.
Submitted by jlongwor on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 10:00am.
Nov 19 2009 - 4:00pm
Nov 19 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Shawn McCann
Location:
MS 431
Filters play an important role in topology, order theory, lattice theory and functional analysis. We discuss filters, ultrafilters, ultraproducts, ultrapowers, and the construction of the Murray-von Neumann hyperfinite II_1 factor.
Submitted by jlongwor on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:24am.
Nov 5 2009 - 4:00pm
Nov 5 2009 - 4:50pm
Speaker:
Shawn McCann
Location:
MS 431
We will discuss a few facts about C^*-algebras and develop some necessary details about II_1 von Neumann algebras in order to understand the famous open problem called the Connes Embedding Problem.
