Proposal for a Conference "Beyond amenability: Groups, Actions and Operator Algebras" to be held at UCLA, May 2006

这个奖项是为了部分支持将于2006年5月在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行的算子代数会议。会议的目的是将冯·诺伊曼代数和/或遍历理论的研究人员聚集在一起。这两个学科之间的协同关系已经持续了50多年。最近的成就再次强调了这种关系的重要性。加州大学洛杉矶分校的会议将探讨将一个领域的技术应用于另一个领域的各种方法。会议的主要目标是对这些领域的最新进展形成统一的看法。

This award is for partial support of a conference on operator algebras to be held at UCLA in May 2006. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers in von Neumann algebras and/or ergodic theory. These two subjects have had a synergistic relationship for more than five decades. Recent achievements have re-emphasized the importance of this relationship. The meeting in UCLA will explore the various ways that techniques from one area can be fruitful when applied to the other. The main goal of the conference is to develop a unified picture of recent progress in these areas.