### 24th – 26th September 2014

The first 2014/15 meeting of the QOP network will be held at Lancaster University. The local organiser is Professor Garth Dales. All are welcome to attend.

Accommodation may be booked at Travelodge Lancaster; the journey to campus is a short bus ride. There may be rooms on campus available for the nights of Thursday 25th and Friday 26th September, at £37 per night; if you wish to reserve such a room, please contact Garth Dales.

At the end of the meeting there will be two lectures which form part of Lancaster University's 50th Anniversary celebrations. These will given by two very distinguished speakers, Professor E. Brian Davies FRS of King's College London and Professor W. Hugh Woodin of Harvard University; more information about these speakers is available on the participants page. There will be a dinner on Friday evening after the Anniversary lectures; please contact Garth Dales if you wish to attend.

The QOP meeting is supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society and by the Visitor Fund of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. The 50th Anniversary meeting is supported by a special grant from Lancaster University.

### Programme

All talks for the QOP meeting will be held in Lecture Theatre 2 or Lecture Theatre 5 of the Lancaster University Management School, which is building no. 52 on the campus map (PDF). The 50th Anniversary lectures will be held in the Frankland Lecture Theatre (no. 27 on the campus map).

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

#### QOP meeting, Wednesday 24th September (Management School LT 2)

 1700 – 1750 Jonathan Partington Zero-one laws for functional calculus on operator semigroups (slides - PDF) Show abstract Dinner

#### QOP meeting, Thursday 25th September (Management School LT 2)

 0900 – 0950 Tomasz Kochanek Towards a $$C^*$$-algebraic characterization of the Hyers–Ulam stability Show abstract 1000 – 1050 Niels Laustsen Ideals of operators on the Banach space of continuous functions on the first uncountable ordinal (slides - PDF) Show abstract Refreshments 1130 – 1220 Joel Feinstein Convergence of the sequence of powers of an element of a Banach algebra (slides - PDF) Show abstract Lunch 1400 – 1450 Olga Maleva Smallest universal differentiability sets in Banach spaces Show abstract 1500 – 1550 Yemon Choi Unitarizable representations and amenable operator algebras (slides - PDF) Show abstract Refreshments 1630 – 1720 Adam Skalski Haagerup property for von Neumann algebras – old and new (slides - PDF) Show abstract

#### QOP meeting, Friday 26th September (Management School LT 5)

 1000 – 1050 Claus Köstler Noncommutative de Finetti theorems Show abstract Refreshments 1130 – 1220 Biswarup Das A quantum version of the de Leeuw–Glicksberg decomposition theorem (slides - PDF) Show abstract Lunch 1330 – 1420 Piotr Nowak Bounded cohomology and amenable actions Show abstract End of the QOP meeting

#### 50th Anniversity lectures, Friday 26th September (Frankland LT)

 Welcome from Professor Amanda Chetwynd, Provost for Student Experience, Colleges and The Library 1500 – 1600 E. Brian Davies Non-self-adjoint spectral problems Show abstract Refreshments 1630 – 1730 W. Hugh Woodin A half-century of independence Show abstract 1900 – Anniversary dinner, The Borough public house