Conference and Seminar Talks
2023:
November 15, 2023. Consequences of the random matrix solution to the Peterson-Thom conjecture. Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Free Probability, as part of the Thematic Program on Operator Algebras and Applications.
October 7, 2023. Strong 1-boundedness, L^{2}-Betti numbers, algebraic soficity, and graph products. AMS Sectional on Advances in Operator Algebras.
October 3, 2023. On sofic approximations of non amenable groups. Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Groups and Group Actions, as part of the Thematic Program on Operator Algebras and Applications
May 30,2023. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture. Kyoto Operator Algebras Seminar.
May 19, 2023. Applications of free entropy to the study of tracial von Neumann algebras. Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium 2023 (plenary talk)
May 8, 2023. Applications of free entropy to the study of tracial von Neumann algebras. Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras 2023.
March 27, 2023. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture. "Modern Trends in Operator Algebras'' conference in the memory of Ed Effros
February 10, 2023. Co-spectral radius, equivalence relations and the growth of unimodular random rooted trees. Workshop on Von Neumann Algebras and Geometric Group Theory.
January 7, 2023. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras. JMM 2023, AMS Special session on advances in Operator Algebras.
2022:
October 22: Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras. East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium 2022
October 8: UT Austin Groups and Dynamics Seminar (virtual talk). Co-spectral radius, equivalence relations and the growth of unimodular random rooted trees.
September 1: Consequences of the recent resolution of the Peterson-Thom conjecture. Hausdorff Institute. Follow-Up Workshop to Trimester Program "von Neumann algebras"
August 12:Consequences of the recent resolution of the Peterson-Thom conjecture. August 12, 2022. Oberwolfach Mathematics Insitute, workshop on C*-Algebras.
April 29: Subfactor Seminar at Vanderbilt University. Co-spectral radius, equivalence relations and the growth of unimodular random rooted trees.
April 9:JMM Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras.
March 26: Spring Central AMS meeting. Special Session on Recent Developments in Operator Algebras. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness. (virtual talk)
March 5: Southeastern Analysis and Logic Meeting. Co-spectral radius of equivalence relations.
March 4: University of Florida Analysis Seminar. A multiplicative ergodic theorem for von Neumann algebra valued cocycles.
February 8th and 9th: The 9th Workshop on Operator Algebras and their Applications . Structure of von Neumann Algebras via Free Probability and Random Matrices (virtual two-talk series).
2021:
December 13: IPAM Quantitative Linear Algebra Reunion Conference II. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras
October 9: Workshop Series in von Neumann Algebras and Geometric Group Theory. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras (virtual talk)
September 29: UCLA Functional Analysis Seminar. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras.
September 23:University Quantum Symmetries Lectures. Property (T) and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras.
July 24: Michigan State University, Groundwork for Operator Algebras Lecture Series culminating workshop. Applications of random matrices and free probability to the structure of von Neumann algebras: 1-bounded entropy.
June 15: Expanding dynamics summer school. Sofic entropy of algebraic actions.
March 12: California State University, Long Beach. Mathematica Colloquium. An Operator Theoretic Approach to the Convergence of Rearranged Fourier Series.
March 5: Vanderbilt University. Subfactor Seminar. A multiplicative ergodic theorem for von Neumann algebra valued cocycles.
February 16: University of California, San Diego.Functional Analysis Seminar. A random matrix approach to absorption in free products.
January 26: University of Munster. Oberseminar C*-Algebren. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
2020: (all talks past March are given virtually)
December 7: Winter Canadian Math Society Meeting. Special session on Operator algebras, (semi)groups, and dynamics. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
December 2: University of California, Los Angeles. Functional Analysis Seminar. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
November 16: University of California, Berkeley. Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
November 11: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Analysis and PDE seminar. CAT(0)-spaces associated to II_{1}-factors.
November 9: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Mathematical Physics and Operator Algebras Seminar. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
October 30: University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware. Inverse Problems and Analysis Seminar. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
October 13: University of Virginia. Charlottesvile, Virginia. Operator Theory Seminar. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
October 6: University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa. Operator Theory Seminar. A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
July 18: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. (GOALS) Guided Operator Algebras Lecture Series. Free probability, random matrices, and 1-bounded entropy.
April 16: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. Groups and Dynamics Seminar. Harmonic models and Bernoullicity.
April 3: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Subfactor Seminar. CAT(0)-spaces associated to II_{1}-factors.
January 17: Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver, Colorado. AMS Special Session: Advance in Operator Algebras. Pinsker algebras for 1-bounded entropy I.
2019:
December 6: IPAM Quantitative Linaer Algebra Reunion Conference I, UCLA Lake Arrowhead conference Center in Lake Arrowhead, California, A multiplicative ergodic theorem for von Neumann algebra valued cocycles
October 3: BIRS in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Classification Problems in von Neumann Algebras. Maximal rigid subalgebras of deformations and $L^{2}$-cohomology I.
September 24: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Operator Theory Seminar. CAT(0) spaces associated to II_{1}-factors.
August 20: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Operator Algebras Seminar. CAT(0) spaces associated to II_{1}-factors.
June 7: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Summer research program on quantum symmetries. Introduction to C* algebras
May 28: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. GPOTS 2019, Maximally rigid subalgebras of reversible deformations.
May 22: University of California, Los Angeles, Functional Analysis Seminar. CAT(0) spaces associated to II_{1} factors.
April 2, 2019:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. Logic Seminar. Max-Min theorems for weak containment, square summable homoclinic points, and completely positive entropy.
March 31: University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Brazos Analysis Seminar. Max-Min theorems for weak containment, square summable homoclinic points, and completely positive entropy.
March 22: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Applications of Ultrafilters and Nonstandard Methods. Local weak$^{*}$-Convergence, algebraic actions, and a max-min principle.
March 15: Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal, Canada: Part of the month long program "New Developments in Free Probability and Applications" . A Random Matrix to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
March 1: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Subfactor Seminar. Pivots of malleable deformations.
February 8th: University of California, San Diego. Functional Analysis Seminar. Quotients of Bernoulli shifts associated to operators with an l^{2}-inverse.
January 28th: US Naval Academy, Operator Algebras and Dynamics Seminar Spring 2019. Local weak∗-Convergence, algebraic actions, and a max-min principle.
January 22nd: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia: Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar An Operator theoretic approach to the convergence of rearranged Fourier series.
2018:
September 26, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Analysis Seminar, Local weak* convergence and the entropy of algebraic action.
September 15: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Shanks Workshop: Free probability and applications, A Random Matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture
September 14: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Subfactor Seminar, Pinsker algebras for 1-bounded entropy.
September 3: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 1-2-3 Workshop on Analysis on Groups and Measured Group Theory. Max-Min principles in the study of ergodic theory of algebraic actions.
June 4: Insitute de Ciencas Matematicas, Madrid, Spain, Thematic program “L2 -invariants and their analogues in positive characteristic”. Independence Tuples and Deninger's Problem.
May 9: Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; "A random matrix approach to the Peterson-Thom conjecture.
May 8: Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: 1-bounded entropy with applications to von Neumann algebras.
May 1: Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles: “Approximation Properties in Operator Algebras and Ergodic Theory” Mixing and spectral gap relative to Pinsker algebras of Sofic groups.
April 24: University of Virginia, Charlottesville ,Virginia. Operator Theory Seminar. First L2-Betti number of groups and souls of s-malleable deformations.
April 14-15: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee: AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Section on "Advances in Operator Algebras." 1-Bounded Entropy with applications to structure of von Neumann algebras.
April 11: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Probability Seminar. A random matrix problem coming from free probability.
March 5-9: Mini- course on "Sofic groups and approximation of L2-invariants" as part of the Thematic program “L 2 -invariants and their analogues in positive characteristic”
February 23: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee: Subfactor Seminar. Algebraic actions: A max-min principle for local weak* convergence.
January 15: Milyon Labex, Lyon, France, Workshop: "Entropies and soficity" . Algebraic actions: A max-min principle for local weak* convergence.
2017:
November 8: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Algebra Seminar, Metric Approximation of Wreath Products.
November 1: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Algebra Seminar, Introduction to Soficity of Groups.
October 17: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Operator Theory Seminar, Algebraic actions of sofic groups and their entropy II: Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
October 10: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Operator Theory Seminar, Algebraic actions of sofic groups and their entropy I: general background.
October 5: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Basic Notions Colloquium, Introduction to dynamical entropy: A tale of two definitions.
September 16: Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, Annaul Wabash Mini-Conference, 1-bounded entropy with applications to von Neumann algebras
September 14: Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, Geomtery Seminar, Introduction to sofic entropy: A tale of two definitions.
July 3-7: Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, Von Neumann algebras and measured group theory. Local Weak* Convergence and the Entropy of Algebraic Actions.
June 5-9: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Concentration week on Ergodic Theory and Operator Algebras. Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
May 1-4: University of Texas at Austin, Group actions and dynamics seminar. Local Weak* Convergence and the Entropy of Algebraic Actions
April 3-7: Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, Spring School on Analysis on Groups and Measured Group Theory. Local Weak* Convergence and the Entropy of Algebraic Actions.
March 24: University of Michigan, Dearborn, Mathematics colloquium. Metric approximations of wreath products.
March 13: University of California, Berkeley, Probabilistic operator algebras seminar. Pinsker algebras for 1-bounded entropy.
January 20: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, Subfactor seminar. Weak equivalence to Bernoulli shifts for some algebraic actions.
January 6: Joint Math Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, AMS Special Session in Advances in Operator Agebras. 1-Bounded Entropy with Applications to von Neumann algebras.
2016:
November 2, University of California, Los Angeles, Functional Analysis Seminar. Pinsker algebras for 1-bounded entropy
October 27: Ohio Statue University, Noncommutative Geometry Seminar, Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
October 13, Texas A&M University, Joint Linear Analysis and Groups and Dynamics Seminar, Relative entropy and Pinsker product formula for sofic groups.
October 8: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting. Microstates counting with applications to von Neumann algebras.
September 29: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Weak equivalence to Bernoulli shifts for some algebraic actions.
September 16: University of California, San Diego. Weak equivalence to Bernoulli shifts for some algebraic actions.
June 27: Insitute de Ciencas Matematicas, Madrid, Spain, Group Theory Seminar. A gentle introduction to sofic entropy.
June 23: Hausdorff Research Insitute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, Germay, Trimester Seminar (Part of the trimester program on ``Von Neumann algebras''). Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy
May 24: Hausdorff Research Insitute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, Germany, Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras (Part of the trimester program on ``von Neumann algebras''). Pinsker Product formula for sofic groups.
May 9: Alfred Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary, Groups and Graphs Seminar. Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
April 26: University of Virigina, Charlottesville, Virginia,Seminar in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras,1-bounded entropy and regularity problems in von Neumann algebras
March 25: University of California, Berkeley, Free Probability and the Large N Limit V, 1-Bounded entropy and regularity problems in von Neumann algebras.
March 7:University of California, Los Angeles Functional Analysis Seminar, Product Formulas for Pinsker Factors and Complete Positive Entropy of Algebraic Actions.
February 16: Erwin Schrodinger Insitute, Vienna, Austria, ESI Conference on ``Measured Group Theory"(part of the trimester program on Measured Group Theory). A product formula for Pinsker factors with applications to completely positive entropy.
January 15:Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN, USA, Subfactor Seminar.A product formula for Pinsker Factors with application to completely positive entropy.
2015:
October 11:University of California, San Diego, West Coast Operator Algebras Symposium,1-Bounded Entropy and Regularity Problems in von Neumann algebras.
October 4: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium. Independence Tuples and Deninger's Problem.
September 2: Euler Institute,St. Petersburg, Russia,Dynamics, Combinatorics and Representations, Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
August 28.Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, Subfactor Seminar, 1-Bounded Entropy and Regularity Problems in von Neumann algebras.
May 28: Purdue University,West Lafayette, IN, USA,Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, A (Gentle) Introduction to Sofic Entropy, 30 minute plenary talk.
May 18: University of California, Los Angeles,Functional Analysis Seminar,1-Bounded entropy and regularity Problems in von Neumann algebras.
May 11: University of California, Berkeley, Extended Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar, Embedding dimensions and regularity problems in von Neumann algebras.
April 15: University of Texas at Austin,Group Actions & Dynamics Seminar,Group Actions & Dynamics Seminar, Polish models and sofic entropy.
March 3: University of Iowa,Iowa City, IA, USA,Operator Theory Seminar, Polish models and sofic entropy.
February 13: Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN, USA,Subfactor Seminar, Polish models and sofic entropy.
January 12: Joint Math Meetings, San Antonio, TX, USA,AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebars, Metric mean dimension for algebraic actions of sofic groups.
2014:
November 1: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA, Joint Indiana University Vanderbilt University Seminar,Fuglede-Kadison Determinants and Sofic Entropy.
September 22: University of California, Los Angeles,von Neumann algebras and Ergodic Theory, Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
September 21: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on von Neumann algebras and Related Fields,Sofic entropy via Polish models.
August 29: Vanderbilt University, Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy,Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
May 30: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS,Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium,Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
April 16: Indiana University, Bloomington,Functional Analysis Seminar,Fuglede-Kadison determinants and sofic entropy.
March 29: University of California, Berkeley,Free Probability and Large N Limit IV,Sofic Entropy and Metric Mean Dimension of Algebraic Actions.
March 22: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on von Neumann Algebras and Free Probability, Metric mean dimension and topological entropy for algebraic actions of sofic groups.
February 12: University of California, Los Angeles,Functional Analysis Seminar,L^{2}-invariants and sofic entropy of algebraic actions.
January 15, 2014. AMS Joint Meetings, Baltimore, MD, USA, AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras,Extended von Neumann dimension for sofic groups and equivalence relations.
2013:
October 8: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany, Arbeitsgemeinschaft on Sofic Entropy, Isomorphism of Bernoulli shifts (after Lewis Bowen).
August 16,: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland,Groups, Geometry, and Ergodic Theory Seminar, Extended von Neumann Dimension for sofic groups and equivalence relations.
August 7: Texas A & M, College Station, TX, Concentration Week in Dynamics, Geometry and Operator Algebras,Extended von Neumann dimension for sofic equivalence relations.
July 26: Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Workshop on Analytic and Operator Algebraic Aspects of Noncommutative Distributions and Free Probability,An l^{p}-version of von Neumann dimension for representations of equivalence relations.
July 16: University of Hawaii Maui College,Subfactors in Maui, Extended von Neumann dimenstion for representations of equivalence relations.
May 21: University of California, Berkeley,Berkeley, Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium,l^{p}-dimension for representations of equivalence relations.
March 23: University of California, Berkeley, Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar, Extended von Neumann dimension for sofic equivalence relations.
February 22 : Vanderbilt University,Nashville, TN, USA, Subfactor Seminar, Extended von Neumann dimension for sofic equivalence relations.
2012:
May 31: University of Houston, Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, An l^{p}-version of von Neumann dimension for Banach space representations of sofic groups.
April 23: University of California, Berkeley, Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar, An l^{p}-version of von Neumann dimension for Banach space representations of sofic groups.
March 28: University of California, Berkeley, Free Probability and the Large N Limit III, An l^{p}-version of von Neumann dimension for Banach space representations of sofic groups.
March 23: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, LaWiNe Seminar, An l^{p}-version of von Neumann dimension for Banach space representations of sofic groups.
2011:
November 9: University of California, Los Angeles, Functional Analysis Seminar, An l^{p}-version of von Neumann dimension for Banach space representations of sofic groups.