Math 685 (Phillips)

Course information:

• Course number: Math 685.
• Course title: Topics Functional Analysis. (It is on operator algebras.)
• CRN: 23265.
• UO class schedule page for this course.
• Instructor: N. Christopher Phillips.
• Office: 320 Fenton. Please knock. I don't leave my door open, to keep down distractions.
• Office hours: MW 1:00--1:50 pm, F 10:00--10:50 (all subject to rearrangement during the first three weeks of clases). or by appointment.
• Email. All messages should have a subject starting "Math 685:". I do not accept binary files or attachments, except by prior arrangement. I do not ever accept Microsoft Word documents, html (web) files, or encoded text messages. Please send 7 bit ASCII plain text only.
• Course time and place: MWF Noon--12:50 pm, 102 Peterson.
• Recommended textbook: Thierry Giordano, David Kerr, N. Christopher Phillips, Andrew Toms (ed.: Francesc Perera), Crossed Products of C*-Algebras, Topological Dynamics, and Classification, Birkhäuser, 2018. A close to final version of my contribution is here, but the section and theorem numbers are completely different from the published version.
• Prerequisite: Math 684.

Exercises version 1 (pdf) (not required to be turned in); TeX. (Not properly proofread.)

Draft of Gardella and Perera notes on the Cuntz semigroup (pdf).

Some references on radius of comparison and mean dimension (pdf).

Survey article of Ara, Perera, and Toms (arXiv link). The published version is: Pere Ara, Francesc Perera, and Andrew S. Toms, "K-Theory for operator algebras. Classification of C*-algebras", Aspects of operator algebras and applications, 1--71, Contemp. Math., 534, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2011.

This page maintained by N. Christopher Phillips, email. Please email plain text (7 bit ASCII) only (no web page coded files, Microsoft Word documents, binary characters, etc.; see above for more).

Last significant change: 10 January 2024.