• Organiser: Dimitris Gerontogiannis
• Usual Day / Time: Wednesday / 1-2 pm
• Usual Venue: Maths Seminar Room 110
  • On 14 / 03 it is a Thursday

2019:

• 30/01: Coarse geometry and C*-algebras (Christian Bönicke)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iw9cQZM1HW7-ZFBnpaa6soG1-tomBrYn

• 13/02: Non-amenable groupoids (Christian Bönicke)
• 20/02: Voiculescu's theorem I (Ismail Özkaraca)
• 27/02: Voiculescu's theorem II (Ismail Özkaraca)
• 20/03: Strong Morita equivalence (Dimitris Gerontogiannis)
• 24/04: Hecke algebras I (Jamie Antoun)
• 01/05: Hecke algebras II (Jamie Antoun)
• 08/05: Hecke algebras III (Jamie Antoun)
• 15/05: Characteristic classes (Jamie Walton)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NU7TDn-AabKwEe9nlCuo6kST-zwz36gb

• 22/05: Chern character (Jamie Walton)
• 29/05: Types of factors I (Sergio Giron Pacheco)
• 19/06: Types of factors II (Sergio Giron Pacheco)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zvs6Hy_NZ3EM2AoAYw30Qepg0VRjSs2S

• 26/06: Fusion categories and subfactors I (Sam Evington)
• 03/07: Fusion categories and subfactors II (Sam Evington)

2018:

• 24/09: Introduction to Operator Algebras (Jamie Gabe)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cvUtpMQTb0vc0aTlLp5zb6nriIz_pUyn

• 01/10: Classical Theorems (Jamie Gabe)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UZVWHGJC_pdo8aWD_r99LgyOt5fH5s2D

• 12/10: Arveson's Extension Theorem (Ismail Özkaraca)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UJ8TQPsVilmgu9dqDyQkVvCv89lfpYkl

• 19/10: Graph C*-algebras (Mikkel Munkholm)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UuDC4MVNW4yjTbQIlkyivYKCirmA4URf

• 26/10: Introduction to K-theory (Jamie Walton)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T7TEmuB1Q3jhgaVFdrQQMiZOxk9fW6Km

• 02/11: Groupoid C*-algebras (Dimitris Gerontogiannis)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Y2VBLlRBDYhgdBtOjCEdo2DVduJuwhLt

• 09/11: K-theory of graph C*-algebras (Mikkel Munkholm)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L1Bky3X-bUkHkJ46HywnK90l7RFSln9l

• 16/11: UCT for C*-algebras (Mikkel Munkholm)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=14nYdbeF3Ch8VJbNaiOe8Ggvxp7RHpp54

• 23/11: Tiling C*-algebras (Mike Whittaker)
• 30/11: Classification of tiling C*-algebras I (Luke Hamblin)

Notes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B29csQJRso8uSOgpvsyp6zMzbVunXEby

• 07/12: Classification of tiling C*-algebras II (Luke Hamblin)

Previous Talks:

2018:

• Monday 11th June: İsmail Özkaraca
• Monday 21st May: James Gabe
• Friday 11th May: Chris Schafhauser (spoke as part of the Analysis Seminar)
• Friday 9th March and Friday 16th March: İsmail Özkaraca - Tilings.
• Friday 16th February: Andy Monk - The Classical Baum-Connes Conjecture.
• Friday 9th February: David Kerr - Almost finiteness, comparison, and Z-stability (part of SOAR meeting).
• Friday 19th, 26th January and Friday 2nd February: Andy Monk - The Classical Baum-Connes Conjecture.
• Friday 12th January: Martino Lupini - Actions of rigid groups on C*-algebras.

2017:

• Wednesday 22nd, 29th November: James Gabe - The Kirchberg-Phillips Theorem.
• Wednesday 1st, 8th November: Dimitrios Gerontogiannis - K-homology.
• Wednesday 25th October: Christian Voigt - A broad exploration of KK-theory.
• Wednesday 18th October: Luke Hamblin - Gradings and KK-theory.
• Wednesday 11th October: Luke Hamblin - A primer on Hilbert Modules.