West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar

该奖项用于支付2011年10月1日至2日在新墨西哥大学校园举行的西海岸算子代数研讨会东南分析会议（WCOAS）的参与者的费用。WCOAS会议汇集了经验丰富的和初级研究人员，包括研究生和博士后，讨论算子代数的最新工作和进展。在本次会议上，与会者将了解到以下领域的进展：自由概率、子因子、算子空间、量子群、自同态半群、C*代数的分类、非交换几何；图C*-代数和非交换动力系统。会议的目标是使与会者了解上述领域的最新发展，这对初级研究人员和研究生尤其重要。我们特别注意确保日程安排在较年轻的演讲者和较成熟的演讲者之间保持平衡。根据过去成功举办的WCOAS会议的传统，大家都期望这次会议将对研究和培训产生重大影响。算子代数是由默里和冯·诺伊曼大约在1930年的论文中提出的一系列相关课题。最初的动机是为物理学中的量子力学提供一个基础，今天在物理学的各个领域和算子代数之间有很多重叠。然而，算子代数的应用和相互作用比物理更广泛，涉及到数论、动力系统、随机矩阵和数值线性代数。研究生和其他年轻研究人员以及在数学领域未被充分代表的群体成员将优先获得资助和演讲机会。专业发展和多元化的研究人员融入算子代数社区是该项目的预期影响。在科学上，算子代数理论和相关学科以及算子代数在其他学科中的应用都有发展的潜力。

This award provides support to defray expenses of participants in the West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar South Eastern Analysis Meeting (WCOAS) on the campus of the University of New Mexico, October 1-2, 2011. The WCOAS conferences bring together both experienced and junior researchers, including graduate students, and postdocs to discuss recent work and advances in operator algebras. At this meeting participants will learn of progress in most of the following fields: free probability, subfactors, operator spaces, quantum groups, semigroups of endomorphisms, classification of C*-algebras, non-commutative geometry; graph C*-algebras, and non-commutative dynamical systems. The conference goal to bring participants up to date on developments in the aforementioned areas is especially important to junior investigators and graduate students. Particular care is taken to ensure that the schedule is balanced between younger and more established speakers. Based on the tradition of past successful WCOAS meetings, there is every expectation that this conference will be an event with significant research and training impact. Operator Algebra refers to a broad array of related topics that sprang from papers of Murray and von Neumann circa 1930. The initial motivation was to provide a foundation for quantum mechanics in physics, and today there is much overlap between various areas of physics and operator algebras. Application and interaction of operator algebra are more broad than physics, however, getting into number theory, dynamical systems, random matrices and numerical linear algebra. Priority for funding and speaking opportunities will be given to graduate students and other young researchers as well as members of groups underrepresented in mathematics. The professional development and integration of a diverse group of researchers into the operator algebra community are anticipated impacts of the project. Scientifically, there is potential for advances in the theory of operator algebras and related disciplines and applications of operator algebras to other disciplines.