Math 607 (Phillips)

This is the home page for N. C. Phillips' Math 607 at the University of Oregon, Spring 2008.

Course title: Group Actions on C*-algebras
CRN: 33152.
Time and place: MWF 2:00--2:50 pm, 206 Deady.
Instructor: N. Christopher Phillips. Note: I will be away at conferences for about two weeks. The lectures during those times will be made up at other times; details to be determined.
Office: 105 Deady. Please knock. I can't leave my door open, because if I do I get too many people asking to borrow my telephone or pencil sharpener, or where to find the math department office or nonexistent rooms (such as 350 Deady).
Office hours: WF 3:00--3:50 pm, F 9:00--9:50 am, or by appointment.
Email. I do not accept binary files or attachments, except by prior arrangement. I do not ever accept Microsoft Word documents, html (web) files, or encoded text messages. Please send 7 bit ASCII plain text only.
Books:
- The instructor's lecture notes: pdf version; AMSLaTeX version. The version of 29 Dec. 2007 (posted 25 March 2008) is based on a summer school course given in Ottawa in August 2007, and on lectures given at the Fields Instutute during the fall of 2007. The lecture notes will be updated occasionally during the quarter. They are not in final form. One part of the homework is to find misprints and mistakes in the notes.
- For further reading: Kenneth R. Davidson, C*-Algebras by Example, American Mathematical Society, 1996.
- For further reading: Dana P. Williams, Crossed Products of C*-Algebras, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs no. 134, American Mathematical Society, 2007.
Prerequisites: Math 616--618 or equivalent at other universities.

This page maintained by N. Christopher Phillips, email.

When emailing me, please use 7 bit ASCII plain text only. In particular:

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Last significant change 25 March 2008. (Corrections and additions to the lecture notes are not considered significant.)