## Banach and operator spaces

### 29th – 30th April 2013

The inaugural meeting of the QOP network will be held at Lancaster University. The local organiser is Professor Garth Dales. Please contact him (g.dales@lancaster.ac.uk) if you wish to attend.

This meeting is supported by the Visitor Fund of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University.

### Programme

All talks will be held in the lecture theatre (A54) of the Postgraduate Statistics Centre.

A list of the talks and their abstracts is available as a PDF document.

#### Monday 29th April

 1045 – 1145 David Blecher Noncommutative peak interpolation: prescribing behaviour of noncommutative functions on noncommutative subsets Show abstract 1200 – 1210 Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mark Smith, and Head of Department, Professor John Whitehead 1215 – 1315 Tomasz Kochanek Some open questions arising from the stability problem for vector measures Show abstract Lunch 1430 – 1530 Richard Smith Topological properties associated with strict convexity Show abstract 1545 – 1645 Charles Read Proximinality, operator convolution algebras and other topics Show abstract Refreshments 1715 – 1815 Gilles Godefroy Uniqueness of preduals: a survey Show abstract 1845 – 2015 Buffet dinner – please let Garth Dales or Alex Belton know if you wish to attend

#### Tuesday 30th April

 0930 – 1030 Tomasz Kania Operators from $$C( K )$$-spaces which annihilate certain chains of functions Show abstract Refreshments 1100 – 1200 András Zsák Universal spaces and analyticity for classes of Banach spaces of bounded Szlenk index Show abstract Lunch 1330 – 1430 Piotr Koszmider A Banach space in which every injective operator is surjective Show abstract

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