Positivity IX July 17-21, 2017, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Organizers Vladimir Troitsky, University of Alberta, Canada Foivos Xanthos, Ryerson University, Canada Scientific committee Ben de Pagter, TU Delft, Netherlands Bill Johnson, Texas A& M University, USA Anthony Wickstead, Queens University Belfast, UK Plenary speakers Gerard Buskes, University of Mississippi, USA Marcel de Jeu, Leiden University, Netherlands Jacobus Grobler, North-West University, South Africa Francisco L. Hernandez, Madrid Complutense University, Spain Bill Johnson, Texas A& M University, USA Denny H. Leung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Anton R. Schep, University of South Carolina, USA Pedro Tradacete, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Anthony Wickstead, Queens University Belfast, UK Acknowledgements: The conference is supported by the University of Alberta, the Fields Institute, the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Ryerson University. We would also like to thank Miek Messerschmidt for helping us with the LATEX file of the conference program. Abstracts Algebras of disjointness preserving operators Abid, Rim (
[email protected]) University of Tunis El Manar , Tunis, Tunisia Let A be an algebra of disjointness preserving operators on a Banach lattice X. This talk intends to give a systematic study of such algebra. A particular attention is paid to the set of all nilpotent operators in A as well as to its commutativity. On the adjoints of some operators on Banach lattices Aqzzouz, Belmesnaoui (
[email protected]) University Mohammed V of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco Contrarily to the class of compact operators and the class of weakly compact oper- ators, all the classes of operators defined only on Banach lattices, as AM-compact op- erators (resp.