Elliott Coues Award, 2005:

The Ackermann Award 2005

The Ackermann Award is presented to the recipients at the annual conference of the EACSL. The jury is entitled to give more than one award per year. The award consists of a diploma, an invitation to present the thesis at the CSL conference, the publication of the abstract of the thesis and the citation in the CSL proceedings, and travel support to attend the conference. The first Ackermann Awar...

A Look Back Excel Award Lecture 2005

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were no laparoscopic general surgeons to speak of, and those who were to become the pioneers really did not know one another as a distinct group. Some were friends and colleagues like Drs Barry McKernan and William Saye, Eddie Joe Reddick and Douglas Olsen, Leonard Schultz, Robert Fitzgibbons, and George Berci—just a handful. For the most part though, we...

Christopher Elliott

Elliott Ross

Elliott Ross grew up in Stockton, California. He earned a B.Sc. degree at the University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. with Jeff Schatz at Cornell. He did postdoctoral research with Al Gilman at the University of Virginia and remained on the faculty there for three years. He then moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he is a member of the Graduate Pr...

Recasting the Elliott Conjecture

Let A be a simple, unital, finite, and exact C-algebra which absorbs the Jiang-Su algebra Z tensorially. We prove that the Cuntz semigroup of A admits a complete order embedding into an ordered semigroup which is obtained from the Elliott invariant in a functorial manner. We conjecture that this embedding is an isomorphism, and prove the conjecture in several cases. In these same cases — Z-stab...