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Friday, April 15

Colloquium

José Carrión, Texas Christian University

Classifying amenable operator algebras

Date:
Time:
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm
Location: Avery Hall Room: 115
Rings of bounded operators on Hilbert space were first studied by Murray and von Neumann in the 1930s. These rings, now called von Neumann algebras, arose in part from quantum physics, and have the flavor of measure theory. Their topological analogs …
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