The Sixth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Topics: KK-theory of operator algebras, C*-algebras and Noncommutative Geometry
May 5-14, 2008, Vanderbilt University

Director of the Sixth Spring Institute: Alain Connes Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Alain Connes, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu.

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Organizing committee: Stanley Chang (Wellesley), Fred Shultz (Wellesley). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University), Nigel Higson (Penn State University) and Dirk Kreimer (IHES & Boston University). More information: Conference website

The Fifth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Topics: Index Theory, Hopf Cyclic Cohomology and Noncommutative Geometry
May 7-16, 2007, Vanderbilt University

Director of the Fifth Spring Institute: Alain Connes Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Alain Connes, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu.

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Organizing committee: Jean Bellissard (Georgia Tech). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University), Nigel Higson (Penn State University) and Dirk Kreimer (IHES & Boston University). More information: Conference website

Mini-courses: Alain Connes, Collège de France, IHES & Vanderbilt University NCG, QFT and Number Theory Katia Consani, Johns Hopkins University & University of Toronto Herbert Gangl, Max-Planck-Institute Bonn Li Guo, Rutgers University Dirk Kreimer, IHES & Boston University Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck-Institute Bonn, NCG, QFT and Number Theory Niranjan Ramachandran, University of Maryland Laura Reina, Florida State University

Organizing committee: Robert Powers (University of Pennsylvania) and Geoff Price (USNA). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University), Nigel Higson (Penn State University) and Dirk Kreimer (IHES & Boston University).

The Third Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, in conjunction with the 20th Shanks lecture, featuring Vaughan Jones (UC Berkeley) as the Shanks lecturer.
May 9-20, 2005, Vanderbilt University

Mini-courses: Claire Anantharaman-Delaroche, Université d'Orléans, Correspondences and Type II1 Factors Alain Connes, Collège de France, IHES & Vanderbilt University Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry Uffe Haagerup, University of Southern Denmark (Odense), Invariant Subspaces for Operators in II1 Factors Vaughan Jones, UC Berkeley, Shanks Lecture: A Trip to the Subfactor Circus Mini-Coures: A Short Course in Planar Algebra Narutaka Ozawa, University of Tokyo and UCLA, Hyperbolic Groups and Type II1 Factors Sorin Popa, UCLA, Deformation and Rigidity Techniques in the Classification of II1 Factors Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA, Free Probability and L2-Invariants in Operator Algebras Dan Voiculescu, UC Berkeley, Topics in Free Probability Theory Feng Xu, UC Riverside, The Standard Invariant of a Subfactor

Director of the Third Spring Institute: Alain Connes
Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Alain Connes, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu.
More Information: Conference website.

Invited Plenary Speakers: Ruth Charney (Brandeis University), Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University), Sorin Popa (UCLA) and Rudi Weikard (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

Organizing committee: Alexis Alevras (USNA) and Geoff Price (USNA). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University), Nigel Higson (Penn State University) and Dirk Kreimer (IHES & Boston University). More information: Conference website

The Second Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras
May 15-25, 2004, Vanderbilt University

Mini-courses: Alain Connes, College de France, IHES and Vanderbilt University, Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry Nigel Higson and John Roe, Penn State University, The K-theory Proof of the Classic Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Masoud Khalkhali, University of Western Ontario, Hopf Algebras and Cyclic Cohomology Giovanni Landi, University of Trieste, Noncommutative Geometry and Physics Matilde Marcolli, Max Planck Institute (Bonn), Noncommutative and Arithmetic Geometry Henri Moscovici, Ohio State University, Transverse Geometry and Modular Forms

The 2nd Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras featured several mini-courses and research talks on noncommutative geometry (see conference web site for more details, including materials related to the talks). The conference/school was directed by Alain Connes. The organizing committee consisted of Dietmar Bisch, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu.
More Information: Conference website.

ECOAS 03: The First East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium
September 20-21, 2003, Vanderbilt University

Dietmar Bisch founded the East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium (ECOAS), a new yearly conference series in operator algebras and applications which will be held during the fall semester at various venues along the generalized east coast. The first meeting in this series took place at Vanderbilt University on Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, September 21, 2003.
Organizing committee: Dietmar Bisch, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov and Guoliang Yu (all at Vanderbilt University). Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University), Nigel Higson (Penn State University) and Dirk Kreimer (IHES & Boston University). More Information: Conference website (includes lectures notes and transperencies)

The Clay Mathematics Institute international conference and spring school on Noncommutative Geometry and Applications in conjunction with the 18th Annual Shanks Lecture
May 2-13, 2003, Vanderbilt University

This conference/school featured a lecture series by Alain Connes and several mini-courses by leading experts in noncommutative geometry and its applications to physics and geometry. In addition about 20 invited research talks and short contributions were presented at this meeting.
Organizing committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), David Ellwood (Clay Mathematics Institute & Boston University), Bruce Hughes (Vanderbilt University), Gennadi Kasparov (Vanderbilt University) and Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University). More Information: Conference website (includes lectures notes and transperencies)