Schedule and Abstracts

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Monday, May 26

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
45 minutes

Raphaël Clouâtre
University of Manitoba
MC 2065

Rigidity of operator systems

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
30 minutes

Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
45 minutes

Sanaz Pooya
University of Potsdam
MC 2065

K-theory of higher Kazhdan projections and applications to delocalised L2-Betti numbers

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
20 minutes

George Elliott
University of Toronto
MC 2065

Recent results on the structure and classification of C*-algebras

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
1 hour 50 minutes

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
45 minutes

Orr Shalit
Technion
MC 1085

The universal dilation constant and what we discovered trying to find it

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
20 minutes

Samuel Harris
Northern Arizona University
MC 1085

The four-dimensional version of the Smith-Ward problem

Benjamin Jones
Arizona State University
MC 5417

Ordinal graph C*-algebras

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes

Break

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
20 minutes

Alexander Kumjian
University of Nevada Reno
MC 1085

Twisted étale groupoid C*-algebras and stability

Matthew Wiersma
University of Winnipeg
MC 5417

Exotic C*-algebras of semisimple Lie groups

4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
20 minutes

Roberto Hernández Palomares
University of Waterloo
MC 1085

Highly regular quantum graphs

Dolapo Oyetunbi
University of Windsor
MC 5417

A maximal C*-subalgebra and a symmetry of the 2-adic ring C*-algebra

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
45 minutes

Jennifer Pi
University of Oxford
MC 1085

A logical classification theorem for C*-algebras

Tuesday, May 27

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
45 minutes

Stefaan Vaes
KU Leuven
M3 1006

W*-superrigidity for group and quantum group von Neumann algebras

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
30 minutes

Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
45 minutes

Jesse Peterson
University of Waterloo
M3 1006

A hierarchy of Haagerup-type approximation properties

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
20 minutes

Sam (Se-Jin) Kim
KU Leuven
M3 1006

Measured Groupoids and their von Neumann algebras

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
1 hour 50 minutes

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
45 minutes

Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
University of Maryland
STC 0010

Some recent results on the structure of C*-algebras.

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
20 minutes

Matthew Gillespie
Arizona State University
STC 0010

An ideal correspondence result for crossed products by quantum groups

Jeremy Hume
Carleton University
MC 5417

Non-Hausdorff groupoids and the vanishing singular ideal property

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes

Break

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
20 minutes

Alec Gow
University of Waterloo
STC 0010

The quasitrace problem and characterizing W*-algebras

Ishan Ishan
University of Nebraska Lincoln
MC 5417

von Neumann orbit equivalence

4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
20 minutes

M. Ali Asadi-Vasfi
Fields Institute
STC 0010

The rank ratio function and the radius of comparison

Aareyan Manzoor
University of Waterloo
MC 5417

There is a non-Connes embeddable equivalence relation

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
45 minutes

Kristin Courtney
University of Southern Denmark
STC 0010

Operator system limits of C*-algebras

Wednesday, May 28

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
45 minutes

Stuart White
University of Oxford
M3 1006

Classifying maps (into II_1 factors)

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
30 minutes

Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
45 minutes

Michael Hartz
University of Saarland
M3 1006

Small sets for the Drury-Arveson space

11:40 AM - 11:50 AM
10 minutes

Israel Halperin Prize Presentation

M3 1006
11:50 AM - 2:00 PM
2 hours 10 minutes

Lunch and Operator Algebras Mentor Network Event

M3 1006
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
45 minutes

Celebration of Ken Davidson

STC 0010
2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
20 minutes

Joachim Zacharias
University of Glasgow
STC 0010

AF-embeddability of decomposition rank 1 algebras

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes

Break

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
20 minutes

Valentin Deaconu
University of Nevada Reno
STC 0010

Cohomology of ample groupoids

Prem Nigam Kar
Technical University of Denmark
MC 5417

Quantum automorphism groups of outerplanar graphs

4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
20 minutes

Tyler Schulz
University of Victoria
STC 0010

Supercritical phase transition for the ax+b monoid

Junichiro Matsuda
University of Waterloo
MC 5417

Regular quantum graphs have an integral degree that admits non-classical values

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
45 minutes

James Gabe
University of Southern Denmark
STC 0010

Classifying group actions on Kirchberg algebras

Thursday, May 29

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
45 minutes

Aidan Sims
University of Wollongong
M3 1006

Twisted C*-algebras of Zappa-Szép products

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
30 minutes

Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
45 minutes

Larissa Kroell
University of Waterloo
M3 1006

Partial C*-dynamical systems: injective envelopes and the ideal intersection property

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
20 minutes

Malte Leimbach
Radboud University
M3 1006

On spectral and Fourier truncations

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
1 hour 50 minutes

Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
45 minutes 		Marcelo Laca
University of Victoria
DC 1351

C*-algebras associated to submonoids of the Thompson group F

2:55 PM - 3:15 PM
20 minutes

Forrest Glebe
University of Hawaii
DC 1351

When can cohomology obstruct unnormalized Schatten p-stability?

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes

Break

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
20 minutes

Anshu Anshu
Fields Institute and York University
DC 1351

Quantum Wasserstein distance on quantum permutation group

Dan Ursu
University of Münster
MC 5417

Comparing various generalizations of Cartan subalgebras

4:15 PM - 4:35 PM
20 minutes

Michael Ó Ceallaigh
Victoria University of Wellington
DC 1351

Generalised twisted groupoid C*-algebras... don't exist?

Daniel Wallick
The Ohio State University
MC 5417

An operator algebraic approach to symmetry-enriched topological orders

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
45 minutes 		Dilian Yang
University of Windsor
DC 1351

Cartan subalgebras of self-similar graph C*-algebras

Friday, May 30

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
45 minutes

Lyudmyla Turowska
Chalmers University of Technology
MC 2066

Absolutely dilatable module maps

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
30 minutes

Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
45 minutes

Paul Skoufranis
York University
MC 2066

Non-commutative majorization

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
20 minutes

Robin Deeley
University of Colorado Boulder
MC 2066

Orbit breaking in Deaconu-Renault groupoids

12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
20 minutes

Aaron Tikuisis
University of Ottawa
MC 2066

Étale equivalence relations with prescribed torsion in their homology