2007 Special Year on Mathematical Physics

Special Event on the Baum-Connes Conjecture and Related Topics

Australian National University
21-22 September

This special event is to celebrate the Baum-Connes conjecture on the occasion of Paul Baum's visit to ANU, Canberra. Paul Frank Baum is Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. He previously taught at Brown University and Princeton University. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College (1958) and his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1963). For the academic year 1958-59 he was an "élève étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His Princeton Ph.D. thesis was written under the direction of John Moore and Norman Steenrod. Professor Baum's work in mathematics has been interdisciplinary, ranging from algebraic geometry to K-theory of operator algebras. In 1980 he began the joint effort with Alain Connes that led to the formulation of the conjecture now known as the Baum-Connes conjecture. This conjecture is unusual in that it cuts across several different areas of mathematics and reveals connections between problems that earlier appeared to be totally unrelated.

Speakers/Titles:

Paul Baum: Three talks on Baum-Connes conjecture
Boris Chorny: Model Category and Baum-Connes conjecture
Adam Rennie: APS index theory for Kasparov modules and mapping cones
Bryan Wang: Index theorem for twisted Spin^c manifolds (and twisted Baum-Connes conjecture)

Schedule:

All talks will be held in G35, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building, Bldg 27

Tea and coffee will be served in the MSI Common Room (JD1177)

Friday, 21 September

10:30 -- 11:00 Coffee & Tea break
11:00 -- 12:00 Paul Baum (Baum-Connes conjecture, Part I)
12:00 -- 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 -- 14:30 Bryan Wang (Index theorem for twisted Spin^c manifolds (and twisted BC ))
14:30 -- 15:00 Coffee & Tea break
15:00 -- 16:00 Paul Baum (Baum-Connes conjecture, Part II)
16:00 -- 17:00 Boris Chorny (Model Category and Baum-Connes conjecture)

Saturday, 22 September

10:00 -- 11:00 Adam Rennie (APS index theory for Kasparov modules and mapping cones)
11:00 -- 11:30 Coffee & Tea break
11:30 -- 12:30 Paul Baum (Baum-Connes conjecture, Part III)

Information

For visitors to the ANU and Canberra there is an ANU campus map, a list of suggested accommodation and some more general tourist information.

For further information please contact cmaoffice@maths.anu.edu.au.