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).

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.