The purpose of the reading seminar is to read and understand Chapters 8-9 of Higson & Roe "Analytic K-Homology" plus some related material in Bruce Blackadar: "K-Theory for Operator Algebras". The organizer is Thomas Danielsen.
There will be no more lectures.
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Reference |
| March 10 | Thomas Danielsen | Fredholm modules | [HR] Sect. 8.1 |
| March 15 | Thomas Danielsen | The Kasparov group | [HR] Sect. 8.2 |
| March 22 | Hannes Thiel | Elementary KK-theory | [BB] Sect. 17.1-17.3 |
| March 24 | Hannes Thiel | Dimension drop algebras and their KK-theory | |
| April 7 | Hannes Thiel | More on dimension drop algebras and KK-theory | |
| April 12 | Adam Sørensen | Normalization of Fredholm modules | [HR] Sect. 8.3 |
| April 15 | Adam Sørensen | K-homology and duality | [HR] Sect. 5.1-5.2 |
| April 19 | Thomas Danielsen | K-homology and duality II | [HR] Sect. 5.2-5.3 |
| April 26 | Hannes Thiel | Kasparov theory and duality | [HR] Sect. 8.4-8.5 |
| May 3 | Thomas Danielsen | Schrödinger pairs | [HR] Sect. 8.6 |
| May 10 | Adam Sørensen | The index pairing | [HR] Sect. 8.7 |
| May 17 | Hannes Thiel | The reduced group C*-algebra of the free group F2 | |
| May 25 | Thomas Danielsen | The product of Fredholm operators | [HR] Sect 9.1 |
| June 9 | Thomas Danielsen | The Kasparov product of Fredholm modules | [HR] Sect 9.2 |
| June 14 | Hannes Thiel | Stability of K-homology | [HR] Sect 9.3-9.4 |
Last and final update: 18th June 2010.