- Weeks one and two will focus on seminars and collaborative research amongst the participants. A schedule of the seminars (all taking place at 10:30 in the Boltzmann Lecture Hall) is as follows:
Tuesday, November 6. Hermann Schulz-Baldes (Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg). Monopole insertion and spectral flow in topological insulator
Thursday, November 8. Siegfried Echterhoff (Westfahlische Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster). The minimal exact crossed product and the Baum-Connes conjecture
Friday, November 9. Branimir Cacic (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton). Noncommutative principal bundles in unbounded KK-theory
Tuesday, November 13. Paul Baum (Penn State University). Twisted $K$-homology.
Wednesday, November 14. Joachim Cuntz (Westfahlische Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster). Linear functionals on C*-algebras and their commutative subalgebras.
Thursday, November 15. Ryszard Nest (University of Copenhagen) Group cocycles and algebraic K-theory.
Friday, November 16. Giovanni Landi (Università degli studi di Trieste) Line bundles over noncommutative spaces.
with more details in the seminar abstracts
- Week three will take the form of a masterclass at the postdoctoral level on Kasparov theory and its applications. A schedule of the masterclass (November 19-23) is as follows (also in [pdf])
| Time | Monday 19 |
Tuesday 20 |
Wednesday 21 | Thursday 22 | Friday 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:30 | Mesland/Rennie | Mesland/Rennie | Kaad | Kaad | Kaad |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea |
| 11:00-12:00 | Mesland/Rennie | Discussion/questions | Bourne | Discussion/questions | Prodan |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | Bourne | Bourne | Free afternoon or: | vd Dungen | vd Dungen |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Higson | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea |
| 15:30-16:30 | Discussion/questions | Prodan | Prodan | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion/questions | Discussion/questions |
The lecturers and topics are as follows:
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- Chris Bourne (Tohoku). Topological phases, index theory and Kasparov theory.
- Koen van den Dungen (Bonn). Towards noncommutative Lorentzian geometry.
- Jens Kaad (Odense). Recent advances in (unbounded) KK-theory
- Bram Mesland (Bonn) and Adam Rennie (Wollongong). Introduction to operator algebras and KK-theory.
- Emil Prodan (Yeshiva). Physics and applications of topological phases: How KK-theory can help?
with more details in the masterclass-abstracts.
- Week four will be a research workshop, the schedule (all talks in the Boltzmann Lecture Hall) is as follows [schedule including abstracts in pdf]:
| Time | Monday 26 |
Tuesday 27 |
Wednesday 28 | Thursday 29 | Friday 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:30 | Guo Chuan Thiang | Johannes Kellendonk | Koen van den Dungen | Sara Azzali | Magnus Goffeng |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea |
| 11:00-12:00 | Christopher Max | Chris Bourne | Victor Gayral | Pierre Julg | Franz Luef |
| 12:00-15:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
Free afternoon (18:30 conference dinner, Heurigen) |
Lunch | Free afternoon |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | Coffee/tea | ||
| 15:30-16:30 | Francesca Arici | Valerio Proietti | Harold Steinacker |