Program
The conference talks will be in Blocker 166. The Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University Dr. on the Texas A&M campus. Map

Thursday August 1, 2013

9:00   - 10:15    Registration and Breakfast

10:15 - 10:30    Introduction

10:30 - 11:20    Richard Haydon (Oxford University)

                         More spaces with very few operators

11:30 - 12:20    Andras Zsak (Cambridge University)

                         Operators on \(C[0,\omega^\omega]\) factoring through \(\mathrm{c}_0\)

Lunch

2:00  -  2:50     Bunyamin Sari (University of North Texas)

                         Spreading models in Ted Odell's work

3:00  -  3:50     Daniel Freeman (St Louis University)

                         Greedy bases for Besov spaces

Coffee Break

4:10  -  4:40     Bentuo Zheng (University of Memphis)

                         A reflexive space with the USP which fails the K-USP

4:50  -  5:20     Kevin Beanland (Washington and Lee University)

                         Distortion of and strictly singular operators on Tsirelson-like spaces

7:00  -               Reception at Michele and Thomas' house, 6412 Windwood dr


Friday August 2, 2013

9:00   -  9:30     Breakfast

9:30   - 10:20    Mikhael Ostrovskii (St John's University)

                         Test-space characterizations of some classes of Banach spaces

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:10    Denka Kutzarova (University of Illinois)

                         On the Beta-Modulus

11:20 - 11:50    Haskel Rosenthal (University of Texas)

                         TBA