Mathematical Sciences: West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar

这笔赠款将支持第二届年度西海岸运营商 代数研讨会将于十月十日在内华达州大学举行 1992年，24-25日。 这个项目的数学的一般领域有其 基础 希尔伯特空间算子的代数理论。 运营商 可以被认为是复数的有限或无限矩阵 号码 特殊类型的运算符通常放在 代数，自然称为算子代数。 这些抽象 物体的应用范围之广令人惊讶。 比如说， 它们在纽结理论中起着关键作用，而纽结理论目前 被用来研究DNA的结构， 在非对易几何中的重要性， 在物理学中变得越来越重要。

This grant will support the second annual West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar to be held at the University of Nevada on October 24-25, 1992. The general area of mathematics of this project has its basis in the theory of algebras of Hilbert space operators. Operators can be thought of as finite or infinite matrices of complex numbers. Special types of operators are often put together in an algebra, naturally called an operator algebra. These abstract objects have a surprising variety of applications. For example, they play a key role in knot theory, which in turn is currently being used to study the structure of DNA, and they are of fundamental importance in noncommutative geometry, which is becoming increasingly important in physics.