OA Resources

Announcing a scientific event (in operator algebras)

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Research in Pairs programs

A list of institutions offering Research in Pairs programs in mathematics, which provide funding and accommodation for small groups of researchers to work together for a limited period.

  • American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), Pasadena
    program: SQuaREs ♦ participants: 4–6 ♦ duration: 1 week
  • Banff International Research Station (BIRS)
    program: Focused Research Groups ♦ participants: up to 8 ♦ duration: 1–2 weeks
    program: Research in Teams ♦ participants: 2–4 ♦ duration: 1–2 weeks
  • Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), Luminy
    program: Research in Pairs ♦ participants: small groups ♦ duration: typically 1–2 weeks
  • Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Paris
    program: Research in Paris ♦ participants: not specified ♦ duration: up to 6 weeks
  • Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Oberwolfach
    program: Oberwolfach Research Fellows (OWRF) ♦ participants: 2–4 ♦ duration: 1–4 weeks

ICM speakers in operator algebras

A list of invited and plenary speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians whose work is in operator algebras. Please write to me if you notice any omissions or corrections.

First nameLast nameYear & CityPlenary / SectionTitle of Talk
DietmarBisch2002 BeijingSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
AlainConnes1978 HelsinkiPlenary
AlainConnes1986 BerkeleySection: Real and Functional Analysis
AlainConnes1974 VancouverSection: Operator Algebras, Harmonic Analysis & Representation of Groups
GuillermoCortinas2014 SeoulSection: Algebra
JoachimCuntz1990 KyotoSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
Mikael de la Salle 2022 St. PetersburgSection: Analysis
Mikael de la Salle Section: Lie Theory and Generalizations
JacquesDixmier1966 MoskvaSection: Functional analysis
EdwardEffros1986 BerkeleySection: Real and Functional Analysis
GeorgeElliott1994 ZurichSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
RuyExel2018 Rio de Janeiro Section: Analysis and Operator Algebras
IlijasFarah2014 SeoulSection: Logic and Foundations
LimingGe2002 BeijingSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
UffeHaagerup1986 BerkeleySection: Real and Functional Analysis
UffeHaagerup2002 BeijingPlenary
CyrilHoudayer2022 St. PetersburgSection: Analysis
AdrianIoana2018 Rio de Janeiro Section: Analysis and Operator Algebras
MasakiIzumi2010 HyderabadSection: Functional Analysis and Applications
VaughanJones1986 BerkeleySection: Real and Functional Analysis
VaughanJones1990 KyotoPlenary/Fields Medal
RichardKadison1970 NiceSection: Analysis
YasuyukiKawahigashi2018 Rio de Janeiro Section: Analysis and Operator Algebras
EberhardKirchberg1994 ZurichSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
VincentLafforgue2002 BeijingSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
DusaMcDuff1990 KyotoSection: Geometry
DusaMcDuff1998 BerlinPlenary
AdrianOcneanu1990 KyotoSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
NarutakaOzawa2006 MadridSection: Operator Algebras and Functional Analysis
MichaelPimsner1990 KyotoSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
SorinPopa2006 MadridPlenary
SorinPopa1990 KyotoSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
JohnRingrose1974 VancouverSection: Operator Algebras, Harmonic Analysis & Representation of Groups
MikaelRørdam2006 MadridSection: Operator Algebras and Functional Analysis
DimitriShlyakhtenko2010 HyderabadSection: Functional Analysis and Applications
GeorgeSkandalis1990 KyotoSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
ErlingStörmer1974 VancouverSection: Operator Algebras, Harmonic Analysis & Representation of Groups
MasamichiTakesaki1970 NiceSection: Analysis
JosephTaylor1974 VancouverSection: Operator Algebras, Harmonic Analysis & Representation of Groups
AndreasThom2018 Rio de Janeiro Section: Analysis and Operator Algebras
AndreasThom2018 Rio de Janeiro Section: Topology, Analysis and Operator Algebras
StefaanVaes2010 HyderabadSection: Functional Analysis and Applications
AntonyWassermann1994 ZurichSection: Operator Algebras & Functional Analysis
StuartWhite2022 St. PetersburgSection: Analysis
WilhelmWinter2018 Rio de Janeiro Section: Analysis and Operator Algebras
GuoliangYu2006 MadridSection: Operator Algebras and Functional Analysis

Websites of some Operator Algebraists

Some Collected Quotes

  • „Many people have worked on it and vanished without a trace.“ (George Elliott, about the quasitrace problem. Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Connections with Logic, Fields Institute, Toronto, August 2023. According to Elliott, this is a quote of Kadison.)
  • „You have to allow for C*-algebras without projections. But that’s another day at the office.“ (George Elliott, about the generalization of a result from simple unital to simple projectionless C*-algebras. Workshop Cuntz semigroups, Münster, July 2021.)
  • „I am not a scholar, but I get around.“ (George Elliott, when discussing with the audience whether the uniqueness of the commutation relations and the characterization of compacts by a unique irreducible representation was due to von Neummann in 1931 or Naimark in 1951. Barcelona Conference on C*-algebras: Structure, Classification and Dynamics, June 2017)
  • „No animals are killed in this process.“ (George Elliott, about a classification functor that doesn’t „kill“ any automorphisms. Barcelona Conference on C*-algebras: Structure, Classification and Dynamics, June 2017)
  • „It’s worse than nothing. Apologies to the experts.“ (George Elliott, towards Ilijas Farah about the shortcomings of the quotient R/Q as a topological or Borel space. Barcelona Conference on C*-algebras: Structure, Classification and Dynamics, June 2017)
  • „I would think there is more than one way to get dressed in the morning, and it would still be satisfactory.“ (George Elliott, When discussing canonical vs. natural, and that natural does not mean unique. Barcelona Conference on C*-algebras: Structure, Classification and Dynamics, June 2017)
  • „Life’s too short to worry about nonseparable things.“ (Cornel Pasnicu, at the Barcelona Conference on C*-algebras: Structure, Classification and Dynamics, June 2017. According to Pasnicu this is a quote of Mackey.)