Date:	Mon, February 2, 2009
Time:	17:15
Place:	Research II Lecture Hall

Abstract: We will see that the 1959 Kadison-Singer Problem is equivalent to fundamental unsolved problems in a dozen areas of research in pure mathematics, applied mathematics and engineering. This gives all these research areas common ground on which to interact as well as explaining why each of them has volumes of literature on their respective problems without a satisfactory resolution. We will present some equivalent forms of the Kadison-Singer Problem that any graduate student in a first course in functional analysis can understand and work on.