| K-THEORY OF GROUP C* ALGEBRAS (AN INTRODUCTION TO K-THEORY AND THE BAUM-CONNES CONJECTURE) | |
| Topic: | Some Classical Problems and Conjectures |
| Speaker: | Paul Baum |
| Affiliation: | IAS |
| Date: | Tuesday, November 30 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
A number of well known problems (Mackey analogy, Parthasarathy-Atiyah-Schmid construction of the discrete series, Novikov conjecture, stable Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture, Kadison-Kaplansky conjecture) are contained in the issue of understanding the K-theory of group C* algebras.