Note: New seminar website (from Fall 2024 and onwards)
https://sites.google.com/view/alejandrocano/student-operator-algebras-seminar
About the seminar: This is a seminar organized by and for graduate students at Purdue.
Spring 2024: We meet every Friday at 2:30pm on BRNG 1254: Below is the Talk Schedule:
3/8 Iason Moutzouris Introduction to asymptotic dimension of groups
3/15 (No talk; Spring Break)
3/29 Forrest Glebe Introduction to ultrafilters
4/12 General Ozochiawaeze Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem
4/19 Iason Moutzouris Classification of C*-algebras
Fall 2023: We meet every Monday at 12:30pm on BRNG 1243 (update: From 10/23 and later, we will meet on BRNG 1248): Below is the Talk Schedule:
9/1 First meeting; we discussed about the format of the seminar and the topics of the talks
9/11 Patrick DeBonis Introduction to Von Neumann Algebras
9/18 Iason Moutzouris Introduction to crossed products
9/25 Forrest Glebe Introduction to stability problems
10/2 Iason Moutzouris Introduction to nuclearity
10/9 (No talk; October Break)
10/16 Iason Moutzouris Introduction to W* and C* superrigidity
10/23 Iason Moutzouris Amenability and its various equivalent definitions
In Spring 2023 it is a reading seminar. We meet every Wednesday 9:30am on SCHM 317 and we are reading the paper "C*-superrigidity of 2-step nilpotent groups by C. Eckhardt and S. Raum"
In Fall 2022 we met every Monday at 2:30 pm at BRNG 1255 , starting at 8/29. Topics of the talks included:
Real rank zero and group C*-algebras (series of 3 talks by Iason Moutzouris)
Classification of von-Neumann algebras (series of 2 talks by Krishnendu Khan)
Joint spectrum of von-Neumann algebras (talk by Patrick DeBonis)
Stability problems (series of 2 talks by Forrest Glebe)
Amenablity and growth (talk by Iason Moutzouris)
Quasidiagonality (talk by Iason Moutzouris)
Stone-Cech Compactification (talk by Forrest Glebe)
In Spring 2022, Iason Moutzouris and Forrest Glebe gave a series of expository talks on the following topics:
K-theory (2 talks each)
Classification of C*-algebras (series of 3 talks by Iason)
Ultrafilters and Ultraproducts (1 talk each)
Introduction to tensor products (series of 3 talks by Forrest)