Introduction -- Victor Shulman: The Gentle Art of Mathematics -- Operators Splitting the Arveson Spectrum -- Singly Generated Operator Algebras Satisfying Weakened Versions of Amenability.-Operator Algebras and C*-correspondences: A Survey -- Some Operator Algebras from Semigroups -- Lifting Algebraic Contractions in C*-algebras -- The Second Local Multiplier Algebra of a Separable C*-algebra -- Test-space Characterizations of Some Classes of Banach Spaces -- Splittings of Masa-bimodules -- Noncommutative Analogues of Stein Spaces of Finite Embedding Dimension -- Idempotent States on Locally Compact Groups and Quantum Groups -- Topological Radicals, V. From Algebra to Spectral Theory -- A Brief Survey on 1. Infinite-dimensional Schur-Horn Theorems and Infinite Majorization Theory with Applications to Operator Ideals; 2. B(H)-subideals of Operators
Summary
This volume comprises the proceedings of the Conference on Operator Theory and its Applications held in Gothenburg, Sweden, April 26-29, 2011. The conference was held in honour of Professor Victor Shulman on the occasion of his 65th birthday
