Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Non-Commutative Geometry, December 4 - 8, 2023, The Fields Institute

This workshop will explore current themes in noncommutative geometry, including topics that lie at the interfaces of noncommutative geometry with Riemannian geometry, sub-Riemannian geometry, mathematical physics, random matrix theory, representation theory, cyclic homology, number theory and arithmetic geometry. The workshop will feature Alain Connes' series of 3 Coxeter Lectures with the title From rings of operators to noncommutative geometry, as well as a minicourse of 3 lectures by Eckhard Meinrenken on Symplectic geometry of the moduli space of hyperbolic 0-metrics. In addition to plenary talks, time will be reserved early in the week for contributions from graduate students and other beginning researchers.

Some funding has been set aside to provide (modest) travel grants to young researchers who wish to participate in the meeting. Those seeking such funding should contact the organizers as soon as possible.

List of Plenary Speakers

• Paolo Aschieri, University of Piemonte Orientale
• Branimir Ćaćić, University of New Brunswick
• Simone Ceccini, Texas A&M University
• Alain Connes, IHES, Collège de France
• Caterina Consani, Johns Hopkins University
• Heath Emerson, University of Victoria
• Giovanni Landi, Università degli Studi di Trieste
• Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto
• Omar Mohsen, Université Paris-Saclay
• Henri Moscovici, Ohio State University
• Markus Pflaum, University of Colorado Boulder
• Yanli Song, Washington University in St. Louis
• Karen Strung, Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Xiang Tang, Washington University in St. Louis
• Boris Tsygan, Northwestern University
• Raimar Wulkenhaar, University of Münster
• Guoliang Yu, Texas A&M University

 List of Short Talk Speakers

• Michael Francis, University of Western Ontario
• Magnus Fries, Lund University
• Satwata Hans, The Pennsylvania State University
• Daniel Hudson, University of Toronto
• Roberta Iseppi, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Evelyn Lira-Torres, Queen Mary University of London
• Kameron T. McCombs, Dartmouth College
• Nathan Pagliaroli, University of Western Ontario
• Damien Tageddine, McGill University
• Luuk Verhoeven, University of Western Ontario