Talks

Upcoming Talks

Computable Structure Theory of Operator Algebras

• AMS Fall Central Meeting, St. Louis, MO. October 2025.

• University of Ottawa Analysis Seminar, Ottawa, ON. November 2025.

Applications of Quantum Complexity to Model Theory of Operator Algebras

• Iowa Colloquium on Information, Complexity, and Logic, Des Moines IA. November 2025.

Slides

• Some slides synthesizing multiple talks I have given in 2020-2025. 

Some Invited Talks I Have Given

Model Theory and an Ocneanu Ultraproduct for General Von Neumann Algebras

• Noncommutative Geometry in NYC Seminar, New York City, NY. September 2025.

New Directions in the Computable Model Theory of von Neumann Algebras 

• University of Victoria Operator Algebras Seminar, Victoria, BC. October 2024.

• McMaster University Model Theory Seminar, Hamilton, ON. October 2024. 

Computability in Continuous Logic with Applications to Operator Algebras

• McMaster-Waterloo Joint Model Theory Seminar, Hamilton, ON. August 2024.

• CMS Summer Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. June 2024.

• CMS Winter Meeting, Vancouver, BC. December 2024.

Axiomatizing W*-Probability Spaces 

• Fields Institute Model Theory of Operator Algebras Reading Group, Toronto, ON. June 2024.

Quantum Complexity, Computability and QWEP

• Waterloo Analysis Seminar, Waterloo, ON. April 2024.

Computable Continuous Logic, QWEP, and Type III Factors

• CMS Winter Meeting, Toronto, ON. December 2022.

• Waterloo Logic Seminar, Waterloo, ON. February 2024.

Computable Continuous Model Theory of Type III Factors

• McMaster University Model Theory Seminar, Hamilton, ON. October 2022.

Categories of Translation Surfaces

• Hyperbolic Lunch, Toronto, ON. March 2019.

Submitted and Recreational Talks

It Depends On What the Meaning of the Word ‘Is’ Is: An Introduction To Equality And HoTT

• McMaster Casual Math Seminar, Hamilton, ON. February 2024.

The Undecidability of having the QWEP

• ASL Contributed Paper Session: JMM, Boston, Mass. January 2023.

Mathematics, Mysticism, Mythology and Magic

• McMaster Casual Math Seminar, Hamilton, ON. December 2023.

Miscellaneous

A recording of a talk given by Isaac Goldbring  about our joint work: On the Undecidability of QWEP.