Tidlegare gjesteforelesninger og seminarer - Side 62

Abstract: We show that the discrete duals of the so called free orthogonal quantum groups have the completely contractive approximation property, analogous to the free groups. The proof relies on the structure of representation categories of these quantum groups, on the C*-algebraic structure of SUq(2), and on the free product techniques of Ricard and Xu. This talk is based on joint work with Kenny De Commer and Amaury Freslon.

Motivert av Atiyah og Segals kompletteringsteorem for ekvivariant topologisk K-teori formulerte Graeme Segal en tilsvarende formodning om ekvivariant stabil kohomotopi. Jeg vil minne om hva teoremet og formodningen sier, og vise hvordan Segalformodningen kan omformuleres, ved hjelp av norm-restriksjonssekvensene, til en form som lettere lar seg bevise v.h.a. den algebraiske Singerkonstruksjonen. Tanken er at dette skal være det første av en serie foredrag som sikter mot å gi et bevis for en versjon av Segalformodningen i motivisk homotopiteori. Dette var temaet for Thomas Gregersens PhD-avhandling fra 2012.

Prof. Sabino Matarrese, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei" Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy

I forbindelse med Kavlipris-uken arrangerer Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi et åpent symposium i astrofysikk den 11. september.

Abstract: Independence has been introduced as a regularity property for pairs of commuting injective group endomorphisms of a discrete abelian group with finite cokernel by Joachim Cuntz and Anatoly Vershik. We discuss various characterisations of this regularity property and show how the statements need to be adjusted when removing the restrictions that the group has to be abelian and that the cokernels have to be finite. Somewhat surprisingly, this leads to the concept of *-commutativity. This property is defined for pairs of commuting self-maps of an arbitrary set. As an examples of *-commutativity, we explain a construction related to the Ledrappier shift and indicate how one obtains examples for independent group endomorphisms from this construction. If time permits, we will point out instances where the two notions have been readily used to obtain C*-algebraic results. Roughly speaking, both notions are designed to give rise to pairs of doubly commuting isometries, which significantly simplifies the analysis of the constructed C*-algebras. This is particularly useful when one tries to generalise results from the case of a single transformation to an action generated by finitely many transformations.

Molly Maleckar, Director, Simula School of Research and Innovation, Simula Research Laboratory

Fabiola Gianotti is a new honorary doctor at the University of Oslo. This is her acceptance speech.

The event is free and open to all, no registration necessary.

Friday seminar by Arnar Pálsson from University of Iceland

 David Parkinson, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Queensland.

The logic seminar will take place in B63 in NHA on Thursdays from 10.15 to 12.00.

The program is tentative. There are free slots in the program. Contact Dag Normann for suggestions or questions.

Eirik Endeve, Oak Ridge National Laboratoratory, Tennessee, USA

Ivan De Gennaro Aquino - Hamburger Sternwarte, Germany 

Three-dimensional instability of solitary water waves

CEES extra seminar by Dr. Monica Hagedorn

Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg Germany

Friday seminar by Moritz Muschick from University of Sheffield

CEES Extra seminar by Jason Miller from J. Craig Venter Institute

Friday seminar by Louis W. Botsford from University of California

Guest lecture by professor Markus Kalesse, University of Hannover, Germany.

Per A. Mykland (The University of Chicago) og Lan Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago) give a seminar in  Auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes house, at 14:15, Tuesday June 17th: Assessment of Uncertainty in High Frequency Data: The Observed Asymptotic Variance

Jubileumsseminar for Øyvind Grøn

Guest lecture by Professor Tomas Hudlicky, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

If B is a sub-Hopf algebra of the mod 2 Steenrod algebra, the category of B-modules has subcategories of modules local or colocal with respect to certain Margolis homologies, and corresponding localization and colocalization functors. The Picard groups of these subcategories are sufficient to detect the Picard group of the whole category and contain modules of geometric interest. General results obtained along the way allow us to begin to attack the analogous questions for E(2) and A(2)-modules. Applications include better descriptions of polynomial algebras as modules over the Steenrod algebra, and of the values of certain generalized cohomology theories on the classifying spaces of elementary abelian groups.   

CEES Extra seminar by Melissah Rowe from NHM