West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar, September 13-14, 2008

西海岸算符代数研讨会(WCOAS)是美国西部算符代数学家15年来的传统。其学术价值包括：为研究人员提供传播他们自己的成果的机会；为研究人员提供机会了解他人的最新研究并了解当前的工作；通过让研究人员有机会见面并相互讨论他们的工作来促进合作研究。WCOAS的更广泛的影响包括鼓励和培养研究生和博士后，让他们有机会介绍自己的工作，了解最近的工作，并会见算子代数方面的知名研究人员；创建和维护一个有凝聚力的区域算子代数学家社区；促进研究型大学和主要是本科生机构的教职员工和学生之间的联系。

The West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar (WCOAS) is a 15-year tradition among the operator algebraists in the western United States. Its intellectual merits include: providing an opportunity for researchers to disseminate their own results; furnishing an opportunity for researchers to learn about recent research of others and to stay abreast of current work; fostering collaborative research by giving researchers the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with one another. Among the broader impacts of WCOAS are the encouragement and nurturing of graduate students and postdocs by giving them the opportunity to present their own work, learn about recent work, and meet established researchers in operator algebras; creation and maintenance of a cohesive regional community of operator algebraists; fostering connections between the faculty and students at research universities and those at primarily undergraduate institutions.