Seminars and Colloquiums
for the week of March 10, 2008
Speakers:
Professor Remus Nicoara, Wednesday
Mr. Drew Schmidt, Wednesday
Wednesday, March 12
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 209A
SPEAKER: Professor Remus Nicoara
TITLE: “On von Neumann Algebras Arising from 2-Cocycles of Property (T) Groups” (continued)
ABSTRACT: We consider von Neumann algebras $L(G,\mu)$ associated to Kazhdan property (T) discrete groups $G$ with scalar 2-cocycles $\mu$. We show that, for fixed $G$, there exists no separable finite von Neumann algebra containing $L(G,\mu_i)$ for uncountably many non-equivalent 2-cocycles $\mu_i$ of $G$. In particular, $L(G,\mu_i)$ are non-isomorphic modulo countable sets. This is joint work with S.Popa and R. Sasyk.
ALGEBRA SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 309A
SPEAKER: Mr. Drew Schmidt
Mr. Schmidt will continue talking on set theory.
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