March 2-3, 2024
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

Registration

Please fill out the registration form to register for the conference and request financial support (if desired). Funding priority will be given to junior participants.

Because of our limited funding, we strongly encourage junior participants (e.g. graduate students) to consider sharing a room.

Confirmed speakers

  • Menevse Eryüzlü (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Gregory Faurot (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
  • Sherry Gong (Texas A&M University)
  • Michael Jury (University of Florida)
  • Boyu Li (New Mexico State University)
  • Rafael Morales (Baylor University)
  • Brent Nelson (Michigan State University)
  • Andrew Toms (Purdue University)
  • Ryo Toyota (Texas A&M University)

Schedule

Saturday

Time Speaker Title
9:30 - 10:20 Andrew Toms The Rank Problem for \(C^*\)-algebras
10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:20 Rafael Morales Hypergeometric Multiple orthogonal polynomials and free finite convolution
11:30 - 12:00 Ryo Toyota Spectral truncations of groups with polynomial growth
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 Brent Nelson Von Neumann dimension for faithful normal strictly semifinite weights
2:30 - 3:00 Gregory Faurot Nuclear Dimension of Graph \(C^*\)-Algebras
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:20 Michael Jury An optimal approximation problem for noncommutative polynomials
4:30 - 5:00 Menevse Eryüzlü \(C^*\)-correspondences over Cuntz-Pimsner Algebras: a construction

Sunday

Time Speaker Title
9:30 - 10:20 Boyu Li Zappa-Szep product of groupoids and beyond
10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:40 Sherry Gong The Novikov conjecture, operator K theory, and diffeomorphism groups
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Abstracts are on this page.

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will be at

Blue Mesa Grill
612 Carroll St
Fort Worth, TX 76107

on Saturday at 6:30pm. An email was sent to registered participants with more information.

Practical

Hotel

We have a group rate of $109 per night for the conference at the Hyatt Place Fort Worth Cityview. This includes breakfast. The hotel address is

5900 Cityview Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76132

To take advantage of the group rate, click here to reserve the room.

You will need the receipt to request reimbursement.

Airports

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is 25 miles from TCU.

Love Field Airport is 35 miles from TCU. Shuttle, taxi and car rental services are available at the terminal.

Taxis, ride-share services and an airport shuttle are available at both airports.

Driving to TCU

TCU is located four miles southwest of downtown Fort Worth on University Drive. Google Maps provides the most accurate directions to campus.

From the D/FW Airport, follow the South airport exit. Take 360 South to Arlington. From 360 follow signs to I-30 West to Fort Worth. Travel through to Fort Worth (past Six Flags and the Ballpark). Travel through downtown and exit University Drive South. TCU is 2 miles from the Interstate.

From the north or south, take I-35 West to I-30 West. Travel through downtown and exit University Drive South. TCU is 2 miles from the Interstate.

From the west or east, exit I-30 to University Drive South. The campus is about 2 miles from the Interstate.

  • Continuing south on University, drive through the center of campus and turn right on W. Berry Street. (immediately after Chase Bank)
  • Continue west to the intersection of W. Berry and Wabash Ave.
  • Turn right into the parking lot entrance at Wabash Avenue. Park in any spot with white stripes.

Transportation between the hotel and TCU

Many participants are regional and have their own cars. We anticipate that informal carpooling will be enough to transport all participants to TCU and back. (The hotel is not close enough that one could walk to TCU in a reasonable amount of time.)

Parking

After 5pm on Friday you can park in any lot labeled for general faculty, staff, or student use (the lots marked CM/FS on the map and the signs). Do not park in lots labeled as reserved parking.

The CM/FS lots just south of the Sid Richardson building are probably the most convenient ones to use: - https://maps.app.goo.gl/PH1LyrF7uXayqZhB8 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/nyEX4fr882HEjb9MA

Lecture rooms

All talks and breaks will take place in Lecture Hall 1 of the Sid W. Richardson building. Breaks will be in Lecture Hall 3.

The physical address of the building is: 2955 South University Drive, Fort Worth, TX, 76109.

We recommend walking along either of the following paths to reach the lecture halls. There will be signs on the door of SWR; just head downstairs and you will be in front of the lecture halls:

directions to lecture halls

Detailed campus maps:

pdf and interactive.

Lunch options

There are a number of options for lunch at walking distance:

lunch options nearby

Contact

Local organizers

José Carrión and Travis Russell

Organizers

José Carrión (Texas Christian University), Mehrdad Kalantar (University of Houston), Tao Mei (Baylor University), Kate Juschenko (University of Texas), and Zhizhang Xie (Texas A&M University).

Former organizers: Michael Brannan, David Milan.

Funding sources

We are grateful to the Department of Mathematics at TCU and the National Science Foundation (DMS-2400111) for their support.

Last update: 2024-03-04 10:46:57