Algebraic Methods in Functional Analysis

Introduction.- Victor Shulman: The Gentle Art of Mathematics.- Operators Splitting the Arveson Spectrum.- Singly Generated Operator Algebras Satisfying Weakened Versions of Amenability.-Operator Algebras and C*-correspondences: A Survey.- Some Operator Algebras from Semigroups.- Lifting Algebraic Contractions in C*-algebras.- The Second Local Multiplier Algebra of a Separable C*-algebra.- Test-space Characterizations of Some Classes of Banach Spaces.- Splittings of Masa-bimodules.- Noncommutative Analogues of Stein Spaces of Finite Embedding Dimension.- Idempotent States on Locally Compact Groups and Quantum Groups.- Topological Radicals, V. From Algebra to Spectral Theory.- A Brief Survey on 1. Infinite-dimensional Schur-Horn Theorems and Infinite Majorization Theory with Applications to Operator Ideals; 2. B(H)-subideals of Operators.