Speaker: Fernando LLedó
Affiliation: UAM
Date: Monday, 15 December 2008 at 11:30
Location: Seminar Room, Serrano 121 (CFMAC)
In this first lecture we will introduce informally the language of operator algebras, in particular, C*- and von Neumann algebras. These classes of operator algebras and their family of states will be used later in order to formulate the axioms of quantum field theory. We will also mention some historical contributions of these algebras to the development of quantum mechanics and present some examples relevant to quantum theory.