27/05/2014, 14:30 — 15:30 — Sala P3.10, Pavilhão de Matemática
Jonathon Funk, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Grothendieck topologies for C*-algebras
We investigate a (contravariant) functor from C*-algebras to
toposes and geometric morphisms that generalizes the Gelfand
spectrum in the commutative case. The functor produces a locale,
presented by means of a Grothendieck topology on an inf-semilattice
of 'Gelfand' opens \([U;a]\).


