Speaker:
Isaac Goldbring
Institution:
UCI
Time:
Monday, October 10, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Host:
Location:
RH 440R
Some prominent conjectures in the theory of C*-algebras ask whether or not every C*-algebra of a particular form embeds into an ultrapower of a particular C*-algebra. For example, the Kirchberg Embedding Problem asks whether every C*-algebra embeds into an ultrapower of the Cuntz algebra O_2. In this series of lectures, we show how techniques from model theory, most notably model-theoretic forcing, can be used to give nontrivial reformulations of these conjectures. We will start from scratch, assuming no knowledge of C*-algebras nor model theory.