Department of Mechanics and Mathematics
Moscow State Lomonosov University

International Conference

OPERATOR ALGEBRAS AND TOPOLOGY

Moscow, January 29 - February 03, 2007



Organizing Committee:

Alexander Mishchenko (chairman), Dmitriy Georgievsky, Vladimir Manuilov, Fedor Popelensky and Evgenij Troitsky

Scientific Committee:

P. Baum, B. Bojarski, D. Burghelea, J. Cuntz, R. Douglas, N. Higson, G. Kasparov, V. Manuilov, R. Melrose, A. Mishchenko, R. Nest, V. Nistor, N. Teleman, E. Troitsky


The conference will be the next in the series of conferences starting from

  • the International Conference "C*-algebras and elliptic theory", February 23 - 28, 2004, Banach Center, Bedlewo, Poland, ( local partial reconstruction of the Web-page),
  • the International Conference "Topology, analysis and applications in mathematical physics" Moscow, Russia, February 14-19, 2005, Dedicated to the memory of Professor Yu.P.Solovjev,
  • the International Conference "C*-algebras and elliptic theory. II" January 23 - 28, 2006 Banach Center, Bedlewo, Poland,

    which were organized by Moscow mathematicians.

    Main topics:

  • C*-algebras and K-theory,
  • index theory,
  • geometric group theory and group C*-algebras,
  • noncommutative geometry and topology,
  • pseudodifferential operators on singular manifolds,
  • deformation quantization.

    Intended participants should download and fill in the

    registration form,

     and return it to

    by the

    deadline: September 1, 2006

    If you need Russian visa, please indicate in the registration form and send the scanned copy of your passport before 01.09.2006.
    Conference fee is $30, donations are welcome.
    Conference banquet from $20.

    Accomodation:

    Rooms in the Student Hostel of the Main Building of the University will be available, prices about $15-$25 per night, a single room in a hotel nearby priced starting from $50, there are also options of sharing a room etc.

    Arrival : January 28, 2007, Sunday

    Departure: February 04, 2007, Sunday


    Deadlines:

  • Registration : 01.09.2006
  • Titles of talks : 01.09.2006
  • Abstracts : 01.10.2006
  • Copies of Passports : 01.09.2006

    Transportation, arrival, and departure



    List of registered participants:

    ([R]: registered, title of talk, link to abstracts is below):

  • Jesus Antonio ALVAREZ LOPEZ (Santiago de Compostela) [R] "A trace formula for foliated flows via adiabatic limits"
  • Ivan BABENKO (Montpellier / Moscow) [R] "On substitution groups of formal power series"
  • Paul BAUM (Penn State) [R] "Non-commutative algebraic geometry and the representation theory of p-adic groups"
  • Bogdan BOJARSKI (Warsaw) [R]
  • Dan BURGHELEA (Ohio) [R] "Complex Ray Singer torsion" (joint with Stefan Haller)
  • Lucio CIRIO (Trieste) [R]
  • Anar DOSIEV (Ankara) [R] "Local operator spaces and noncommutative rational functions"
  • Ivan DYNOV (Bonn) [R]
  • Jürgen EICHHORN (Greifswald) [R] "The Ricci flow on open manifolds"
  • Andrei V. ERSHOV (Saratov) [R] "On subgroups of the unitary group of a Hilbert space and a generalization of the twisted K-theory"
  • Alexander FEL'SHTYN (Szczecin / Boise) [R] "Generalised Burnside-Frobenius theorem"
  • Emmanuel GERMAIN (Paris) [R] "KK-theory of C*-algebras related to Pimsner algebras"
  • Daniele GUIDO (Roma) [R] Ihara zeta function for periodic and fractal graphs (in collaboration with T. Isola and M.L. Lapidus)
  • Alexander Ya. HELEMSKII (Moscow) [R] "On the quantum versions of injective tensor product and duality: the non-matricial approach"
  • Fedor INDUKAEV (Moscow) [R] "Some examples for the twisted Burnside theory"
  • Nickolay IVANKOV (Moscow) [R] "Coverings in noncommutative geometry" (joint talk with P. Ivankov)
  • A.O. IVANOV, A.A. TUZHILIN (Moscow) [R] "Uniqueness of Steiner minimal tree for general position boundary in the plane"
  • Vyacheslav KALNITSKY (St.Petersburg) [R] "Pre-differential operator on graded algebra"
  • Gennadi KASPAROV (Vanderbilt) [R] "A K-theoretic index formula for transversally elliptic operators"
  • Yuri KORDYUKOV (Ufa) [R] "Geodesic flows in transverse geometry of Riemannian foliations"
  • Jan KUBARSKI (Lodz) [R] "Linear direct connections in Lie groupoids, curvature and characteristic classes"
  • Elena KUDRYAVTSEVA (Moscow) [R] "Some quadratic equations in the free group of rank 2"
  • Giovanni LANDI (Trieste) [R] "Noncommutative geometry and quantum groups"
  • Sergey V. LAPIN (Saransk) [R] A new condition of the homotopic invariance of the differential in the theory of pertubations of differential modules
  • Jean-Marie LESCURE (Clermont-Ferrand) [R] " An index theorem for pseudomanifolds with conical singularities"
  • Grigory LITVINOV (Moscow) [R] "The Maslov dequantization, convex geometry and linear operators" (joint with G.B.Shpiz)
  • Vladimir MANUILOV (Moscow) [R] Some recent progress in the theory of $C^*$-algebra extensions
  • Dmitri MILLIONSCHIKOV (Moscow) [R] "Massey products in graded Lie algebra cohomology"
  • Alexander MISHCHENKO (Moscow) [R] "Poincare duality and signature for topological manifolds" (in collaboration with P.S.Popov)
  • Bertrand MONTHUBERT (Toulouse) [R] "Boutet de Monvel Calculus and Groupoids"
  • Alexandra MOZGOVA (Bonn) [R] "4-dimensional Poincaré complexes"
  • Vladimir NAZAIKINSKII (Moscow) [R] "On homotopy classification of elliptic operators on manifolds with singularities" (joint talk with A.Savin and B.Sternin)
  • Igor NIKOLAEV (Calgary) [R] "K-theory of the mapping class groups"
  • Igor NIKONOV (Moscow) [R]"Universal coefficients for Hopf-cyclic homology"
  • Valentin OVSIENKO (Lyon) [R] "Differential operators on supercircle: conformally equivariant quantization and symbol calculus"
  • Hervé OYONO-OYONO (Clermont-Ferrand) [R] K-theory for C*-algebras of 3-manifold fundamental groups
  • Alexandre PAVLOV (Moscow) [R] "The property $(T_1P)$ for $C^*$-algebras " (joint with Evgenij TROITSKY)
  • Paolo PIAZZA (Roma) [R] "ρ invariants, index theory and C*-algebras"
  • Alexey PIRKOVSKIY (Moscow) [R] "Arens-Michael envelopes as "algebras of noncommutative holomorphic functions"
  • Theodore Yu. POPELENSKY (Moscow) [R]"Homology with inner symmetries and Hopf algebras"
  • Alessandro PORTALURI (Milano) [R] "A Generalized Sturm theory"
  • Anton SAVIN (Moscow) [R] "On homotopy classification of elliptic operators on manifolds with singularities" (joint talk with V.E.Nazaikinskii and B.Yu.Sternin)
  • Thomas SCHICK (Göttingen) [R] "Enlargeable manifolds and the Novikov conjecture"
  • Elmar SCHROHE (Hannover) [R] Determinants for Elliptic SG-pseudodifferential Operators
  • Vladimir SHARKO (Kiev) [R] "Morse-Bott functions on manifold with semi-free circle action"
  • Georgy SHARYGIN (Moscow) [R]"On the Lie-formality of Poisson manifolds"
  • Alexander SHTERN (Moscow) [R] "Van der Waerden's Continuity Theorem for the Commutator Subgroups of Connected Lie Groups and Mishchenko's Conjecture"
  • Mikhail SKOPENKOV (Moscow) [R] "The homotopic type of the complement to an immersed manifold and the classification of embeddings S^p x S^q -> S^m."
  • Baruch SOLEL (Haifa) [R] "Schur Class Operator Functions and Automorphisms of Hardy Algebras"
  • Boris STERNIN (Moscow) [R] "On homotopy classification of elliptic operators on manifolds with singularities" (joint talk with V.Nazaikinskii and A.Savin)
  • Rok STRAŠEK (Ljubljana) [R] "On the norm of elementary operators in some nonassociative algebras"
  • Seitek TABALDYEV (Moscow) [R] "On strict homological dimensions of algebras of continuous functions"
  • Carlos TRENADO (Saarbruecken) [R]
  • Jean-Louis TU (Metz) [R] "The Chern character in twisted equivariant K-theory"
  • Dmitrii VOROTNIKOV (Voronezh) [R] "Three sufficient conditions for existence of acoustic axes in crystals (joint talk with Victor Zvyagin)"
  • Andrey YAKOVLEV (Ufa) [R] "Spectral geometry of some non-Riemannian foliations and adiabatic limits."
  • Nina ZHUKOVA (Nizhny Novgorod) [R] "On minimal sets of Cartan foliations"
  • Victor ZVYAGIN (Voronezh) [R] "Three sufficient conditions for existence of acoustic axes in crystals (joint talk with Dmitrii Vorotnikov)"

    • Abstracts and contact information of partcipants in pdf.

    Preliminary schedule.