Topics in modern operator theory

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Preface\0......Page 8
List of participants\0......Page 10
Program of the conference\0......Page 13
On closed operator algebras generated by analytic functional calculi\0......Page 18
A conjecture concerning the pure states of B(H) and a related theorem\0......Page 28
A C*-algebra approach to the Cowen-Douglas theory\0......Page 46
On periodic distribution groups\0......Page 54
On the smoothness of elements of Ext\0......Page 64
Triviality theorems for Hilbert modules\0......Page 72
Exact controllability and spectrum assignment\0......Page 82
Generalized derivations\0......Page 96
Commutants modulo the compact operators of certain CSL algebras\0......Page 106
Similarity of operator blocks and canonical forms. II: Infinite dimensional case and Wiener-Hopf factorization\0......Page 122
Unitary orbits of power partial isometries and approximation by block-diagonal nilpotents\0......Page 172
Isomorphisms of the automorphism groups of type II factors\0......Page 212
The spectral residuum for each closed operator\0......Page 222
Two applications of Hankel operators\0......Page 240
A Rohlin type theorem for groups on von Neumann algebras\0......Page 248
Derivations of C*-alqebras which are invariant under an automorphism group\0......Page 260
Remarks on ideals of the Calkin- -algebra for certain singular extensions\0......Page 270
Modelling by L^2-bounded analytic functions\0......Page 280
The maximal function of doubly commuting contractions\0......Page 296
Remarks on Hilbert-Schmidt perturbations of almost normal operators\0......Page 312
Derivation ranges: open problems\0......Page 320
Problem list\0......Page 330
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