The Elliott Youth Development Lecture

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...

Deirdre O'Brien RGN, RM, MBA, DMCert Introduction of the Florence Elliott Lecture

Florence Eileen Elliott was born on 6 October 1905 in Randalstown. She qualified as a registered nurse in 1930 from the Royal, she undertook midwifery training in Edinburgh and worked there as midwifery Sister for a number of years. In 1943 she was invited to apply for a post as Matron of Whiteabbey Sanatorium. There, with her innovative approach, she introduced affiliated nurse training, in as...

The Design Argument Elliott Sober

The design argument is one of three main arguments for the existence of God; the others are the ontological argument and the cosmological argument. Unlike the ontological argument, the design argument and the cosmological argument are a posteriori. And whereas the cosmological argument can focus on any present event to get the ball rolling (arguing that it must trace back to a first cause, name...

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...