Functional Analysis Seminar

2017-2018

Time Location Seminar Chair
Thursdays — 2:00pm–3:00pm AP&M 5829 (unless otherwise specified) Adrian Ioana (aioana@ucsd.edu)

Fall 2017

Date Speaker Title + Abstract
August 30 Lauren Ruth
UC Riverside 		Two new settings for examples of von Neumann dimension
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October 11 Ching Wei Ho
UC San Diego 		The Large-N Limit of the $q$-Segal-Bargmann Transform
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November 2 Martino Lupini
Caltech 		The complexity of the classification problem in ergodic theory
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November 9 Jeffrey Kuan
Columbia University 		Algebraic constructions of Markov duality functions
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November 16 Erick Evert
UC San Diego 		Matrix Convex Sets Without Absolute Extreme Points
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November 27 Pieter Spaas
UC San Diego 		Non-classification of Cartan subalgebras for a class of von Neumann algebras
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November 30 Ian Charlesworth
UC San Diego 		Bi-free probability and an approach to conjugate variables.
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Winter 2018

Date Speaker Title + Abstract
January 18 Jurij Volcic
Ben-Gurion University 		A Nullstellensatz for noncommutative polynomials: advances in determinantal representations
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March 8 Estelle Basor
AIM 		Determinant computations of block Toeplitz matrices
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March 12 Robin Tucker-Drob
Texas AM University 		Superrigidity and measure equivalence
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Spring 2018

Date Speaker Title + Abstract
April 26 Yoshikata Kida
University of Tokyo 		Central sequences in the full group and lifting properties
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May 10 Tobe DeprezE
K.U. Leuven 		Rigidity for von Neumann algebras given by locally compact groups
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May 17 Chenxu Wen
UC Riverside 		On generators of q-Gaussian algebras
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June 1 Brent NelsonE
UC Berkeley 		Free Stein discrepancy as a regularity condition​
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June 5 Benson Au
UC Berkeley 		Rigid structures in the universal enveloping traffic space
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