"Operator Theory and the K-homology of Algebraic Varieties," William Arveson is professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held numerous visiting positions and fellowships including Newcastle (UK), Aarhus, Rio de Janeiro, Oslo, UC San Diego, Nankai, Canberra, Penn, Trondheim, Kyoto, two years (1985-86 and 1999-00) as Miller research professor at Berkeley. His theory of extensions of completely positive maps now permeates the study of operator algebras. A current interest is the study of endomorphisms of operator algebras (E0-semigroups), which models non-commutative dynamics arising in quantum theory.

Additional Public Info: Professor Arveson's lecture is partially supported by the UNL Research Council and is free and open to the public