Iowa-Nebraska Functional Analysis Seminar

also called the Nebraska-Iowa Functional Analysis Seminar

General Format

This is a one-day mathematics conference held twice a year, usually in April and October on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. The format consists of four hour-long talks, with a two hour lunch, usually at the Drake Diner, between the 2nd and 3rd talk. The first talk typically starts at 11:00 am and the last talk finishes about 5:00 pm.

It is jointly organized by the Mathematics Departments of Drake University, Iowa State University, The University of Iowa, and The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Faculty and students from a number of other nearby universities also attend. All are welcome and there is no registration fee. If you have any questions, please contact one of the organizers.

Organizers

Luz DeAlba of Drake
Raul Curto of Iowa
Yiu T Poon of Iowa State
Allan Donsig of Nebraska-Lincoln

Next Meeting

The next meeting is scheduled for April 12, 2008.

The known speakers are:

Victor Kaftal (of the University of Cinncinati)

Title: Diagonals of positive operators

Valentin Matache (of University of Nebraska at Omaha)

Title: Some problems in functional operator theory exhibiting a nice interplay between operator theory and function theory

Yiu Poon (of Iowa State University)

Title: Rank k numerical range in quantum information

Erin Pearse (of the University of Iowa)

Title: Operator theory of electrical resistance networks

Recent Meetings

April 1, 2006.

Ken Davidson (of the University of Waterloo; visiting Nebraska): Title: Isomorphisms of topological conjugacy algebras
Doug Farenick (of the University of Regina): Title: Injective envelopes and local multipliers of C*-algebras
Palle Jorgensen (of the University of Iowa): Title: From signals to operator theory to wavelets

October, 2005

There was no meeting. Instead, people went to one or both of the American Mathematical Society Regional Meeting or Groupoidfest 2005.

The AMS regional meeting is in Lincoln, NE on October 21-23.
Groupoidfest 2005 is at Iowa State University on November 5-6.

April 23, 2005

Stefan Bildea (of the University of Iowa)
Title: Freeness and Cost in the context of triangle amalgams of C*-algebras and measurable equivalence relations

John Orr (of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Title: Classifying stable ideals of nest algebras

Jasang Yoon (of Iowa State University)
Title: Subnormality of Bergman-like weighted shifts
October 30, 2004

Steve Kaliszewski (of Arizona State University; visiting The University of Iowa).
Title: Symmetric Imprimitivity Theorems and `Hash Products'

Alex Kumjian (of The University of Nevada, Reno)
Title: Actions of Z^k associated to higher rank graphs

V.S. Sunder (of The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India; visiting The University of Iowa).
Title: A complete family of numerical invariants for a subfactor.

Eric Weber (of Iowa State University)
Title: Group Representations and Wavelet Transforms
April, 2004

There is no meeting. Instead, go to the CBMS conference by Iain Raeburn on Graph Algebras: Operator Algebras We Can See, from May 31 to June 4, 2004.
October 11, 2003

Lawrence Fialkow (of SUNY at New Paltz)
Title: Solution to truncated and full moment problems on planar curves of degree 2

Paul Muhly (of the University of Iowa)
Title: Function Theory from Tensor Algebras

Jean Renault (of Université d'Orléans)
Title: AP Groupoids

Ryan Zerr (of the University of North Dakota)
Title: Characterizing and studying AF C*-algebras
April 12, 2003

Valentin Matache (of University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Title: Complex Dynamics and Composition Operators

Lance Nielsen (of Creighton University)
Title: A Survey of Feynman's Operational Calculus

Konrad Schmuedgen (of Universitat Leipzig)
Title: A polar decomposition for holomorphic functions on a strip

David Pitts (of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Title:Automorphisms and Coordinates for Triangular Algebras
October 19, 2002

Baruch Solel (of the Technion, Israel)
Title: The Curvature and Index for Completely Postive Maps

Jack Spielberg (of Arizona State Univ.)
Title: Generalized graphs and semiprojective C*-algebras

Alan Hopenwasser (of Univ. of Alabama-Tuscaloosa)
Title: Subalgebras of Cuntz C*-algebras

Mark Tomforde (of University of Iowa)
Title: Gauge-Invariant Uniqueness for Relative Cuntz-Pimsner Algebras
April 13, 2002

Andu Nica (of Waterloo)
Title: R-cyclic families of matrices in free probability

David Larson (of Texas A & M)
Title: Frames, Wavelets and Operator Theory

Eric Weber (of Texas A & M)
Title: The Geometry of Affine Frames

Palle Jorgensen (of University of Iowa)
Title: Wavelets, operators, and algorithms: two kinds!
October 13, 2001

Elias Katsoulis (of East Carolina University)
Title: Representations for Operator Algebras and Applications to their Facial Structure

Serban Stratila (of University of Iowa)
Title: The Commutation Theorem for Tensor Products of Operator Algebras over Subalgebras

Devin Greene (of University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Title: Free Resolutions in Multivariable Operator Theory

Dorin Dutkay (of University of Iowa)
Title: The Wavelet Galerkin Operator
April 13, 2001

A special meeting was held in Lincoln, in connection with V.F.R. Jones's Rowlee Lecture.
October 14, 2000

Maria Tjani (of University of Arkansas)
Title: Compact composition operators on some subspaces of the Bloch space

Wolfgang Kliemann (of Iowa State University)
Title: Spectra of Flows on Vector Bundles

Srdjan Petrovic (of Western Michigan University)
Title: On the \lambda-commutativity of Volterra operators

David Kribs (of University of Iowa)
Title: Dilation theory and Cuntz representations
April 22, 2000

Lawrence Fialkow (of SUNY at New Paltz)
Title: The quartic moment problem

David Pitts (of University of Nebraska--Lincoln)
Title: Invariants for Triangular Limit Algebras under Algebraic Isomorphisms

Jacqui Ramagge (of University of Newcastle, Australia)
Title: Haagerup bounds: Results and conjectures

David Pask (of University of Newcastle, Australia)
Title: The ideal structure of graph C*-algebras
October 30, 1999

Stephen Power (of Lancaster University, U.K.)
Title: Classifying limits of Finite Dimensional Algebras

Sergei Silvestrov (of University of Iowa)
Title: Bounded and unbounded operator representations of generalised Lie algebras and their deformations

Valentin Matache (of University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Title: Numerical Ranges, Composition Operators, and Computer Assisted Analysis

N. Diep (of University of Iowa)
Title: A Survey of Noncommutative Chern Characters
April 17, 1999

V. S. Sunder (of Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India)
Title: From Ergodic Theory to Subfactors

Terje Sund (of University of Oslo)
Title: Groups with Trivial Cortex

Victor Kaftal (of University of Cincinnati)
Title: Regular sequences, operator ideals, commutators and traces

Liming Ge (of University of New Hampshire)
Title: Matrix Models, Free Entropy and Factors of type II_1

October 17, 1998

Gary Weiss (of University of Cinncinnati) Madras, India): Title: The commutator structure of operator ideals and unitarily invariant trace extensions beyond the trace class
Michael Lamourexu (of University of Calgary): Title: Ideals in Continuous Crossed products
Paul Muhly (of University of Iowa): Title: On the Morita equivalence of C*-correspondences
Roger Smith (of Texas A&M University): Title: Cohomology of von Neumann algebras with Cartan subalgebras