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How operator algebras are used in topology

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Jerry Kaminker, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Tue, May 20 2014, 2:10PM

This will be a very elementary survey of some of the settings in which C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras have proved useful in topology and geometry. We will start with definitions and examples of operator algebras and then discuss some of the following:

a) Classification of manifolds and C*-algebras
b) Geometric group theory and C*-algebras
c) Knot theory and von Neumann algebras.