Short C.V. for Ken Dykema

Biographical Information

Address

Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3368.
Tel: (979) 845-7138
Ken.Dykema 'at' math 'd-o-t' tamu 'dot' edu

Education

• Ph.D. Universtiy of California, Berkeley, 1993; Dan Voiculescu, advisor.
• B.A. (first class honors) Mathematics, Oxford University, 1987.
• B.S. (summa cum laude) Mathematics & Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, 1985.

Position

Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University (beginning September 2003)

Previous Positions

• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University (September 2001 - August 2003)
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University (August 1999 - August 2001)
• Lektor, Odense Univesity (January 1999 - June 1999)
• Adjunkt, Odense Univesity (January 1996 - December 1999)
• Fields Institute Research Fellow (August 1994 - June 1995)
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC-Berkeley and the Fields Institute (August 1993 - December 1995).

Selected Visiting Positions

• Development leave from Texas A&M University taken at the University of Muenster, Germany, partially funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, (September 2004 - July 2005).
• Researcher at MSRI, (January - May 2001)
• SDU-Odense University, (June 2000)
• CNRS Chercheur Associé at Luminy, France (October - December 1998)

Selected Publications

• with Hari Bercovici, Benoit Collins, Wing Suet Li and Dan Timotin, ``Intersections of Schubert varieties and eigenvalue inequalities in an arbitrary finite factor,'' preprint, arXiv:0805.4817.
• with Nathanial P. Brown and Kenley Jung, (with an appendix by Wolfgang Lueck), ``Free entropy dimension in amalgamated free products,'' to appear in Proc. London Math. Soc. (32 pages).
• ``Multilinear function series and transforms in free probability theory'', Adv. Math. 208 (2007), 351-407.
• ``On the S-transform over a Banach algebra,'' J. Funct. Anal. 231 (2006), 90-110.
• with Kenley Jung and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, ``The microstates free entropy dimension of any DT-operator is 2'', Documenta Math. 10 (2005), 247-261.
• with Tadeusz Figiel, Gary Weiss and Mariusz Wodzicki, ``Commutator structure of operator ideals,'' Adv. Math. 185 (2004), 1-79.
• with Uffe Haagerup, ``DT-operators and decomposability of Voiculescu's circular operator,'' American J. Math. 126 (2004), 121-189.
• ``Exactness of reduced amalgamated free product C*-algebras,'' Forum Math. 16 (2004), 161-180.
• with Nathanial Brown and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, ``Topological entropy of free product automorphisms,'' Acta Math. 189 (2002), 1-35.
• with Uffe Haagerup, ``Invariant subspaces of Voiculescu's circular operator,'' Geom. Funct. Anal. 11 (2001), 693-741.
• with Florin Radulescu, ``Compressions of free products of von Neumann algebras,'' Math. Ann. 316 (2000), 61-82
• with Pierre de la Harpe, ``Some groups whose reduced C*-algebras have stable rank one,'' J. Math. Pures Appl. 78, (1999), 591-608.
• with Mikael Rørdam, ``Projections in free product C*-algebras,'' Geom. Funct. Anal. 8 (1998), 1-16.
• with Nigel Kalton, ``Spectral characterization of sums of commutators II,'' J. reine angew. Math. 504 (1998), 127-137.
• with Uffe Haagerup and Mikael Rørdam, ``The stable rank of some free product C*-algebras,'' Duke Math. J. 90, (1997), 95-121.
• ``Factoriality and Connes' invariant T(M) for free products of von Neumann algebras,'' J. reine angew. Math. 450, (1994), 159-180.
• ``Free products of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras and free dimension,'' Duke Math. J., 69 (1993), 97-119.

The list above is extracted from a complete list of 52 refereed papers, one published book and 4 preprints. ( In print, Others)

Selected Talks

• Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, University of Cincinnati, June 2008 (50 minutes).
• Fields Institute Workshop around Connes' Embedding Problem, Ottawa, May, 2008 (50 minutes).
• Von Neumann Algebras and Applications, Banff International Research Station, March 2008 (50 minutes).
• Free Probability, Extensions and Applications, Banff International Research Station, January 2008 (40 minutes).
• Von Neumann Algebra Workshop, Fields Institute, Toronto, November 2007 (50 minutes).
• East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, Wellesley, MA, September 2007 (55 minutes).
• Operator Spaces and Group Algebras, Banff International Research Station, August 2007 (50 minutes).
• Operator Spaces, Noncommutative Lp-spaces and Applications, CIRM, Luminy, France, June 2007 (45 minutes).
• Free Probability and Large N Limit, UC-Berkeley, March 2007 (45 minutes).
• Recent advances in von Neumann algebras, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, November 2006 (50 minutes).
• 21st International Conference in Operator Theory, Timisoara, Romaina, July, 2006 (40 minutes).
• Wabash Mini-conference, Indianapolis, September, 2005 (50 minutes).
• Oberwolfach workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany September, 2005 (40 minutes).
• Operator Algebras and Applications, Cork, Ireland, June, 2005 (two 60 minutes plenary talks).
• Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, May, 2005 (50 minutes).
• Free Probability Workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany, March, 2005 (50 minutes).
• Free Probability conference, Banff International Research Station (Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences), October, 2004 (30 minutes).
• The Abel Symposium, Oslo, Norway, September 2004 (45 minutes).
• The Canadian Operator Symposium, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2004 (50 minutes).
• Von Neumann algebras conference, Centre International des Recontres Mathematiques, Luminy, France, February 2004 (45 minutes).
• Free Probability Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, August 2003 (1 hour).
• Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, University of Illinois, May 2003 (50 minutes).
• Random Matrices and Related Topics Conference, Sandbjerg Manor, Denmark, January 2003 (45 minutes).
• Entropy in Operator Algebras workshop, IPAM, Los Angeles, July 2002 (1 hour).
• C*-algebras, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 2001 (45 minutes).
• Free probability workshop, Fields Institute, Toronto, December 2001 (50 minutes).
• Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics, Constanta, Romania, July 2001 (45 minute plenary talk).
• Sonderforschungsbereich "Geometrische Strukturen in der Mathematik", Münster, Germany, July 2001 (75 minutes).
• Free Probability Theory Workshop, MSRI, January 2001 (50 minutes).
• Wabash Conference, Indianapolis, October 2000 (50 minute plenary talk).
• Noncommutative and Dynamical Systems Workshop, MSRI, September 2000 (30 minutes).
• Danish--Norwegian Operator Algebras Conference, Schaeffergaarden, Copenhagen, August 2000 (25 minutes).
• AMS/Scandinavian Meeting, C*-algebras and K-theory special session, Odense, Denmark, June 2000 (45 minutes).
• Operator Theory Conference, OT18, Timisoara, Romania, June 2000 (45 minutes).
• Free Probability Theory and Random Matrices, Sandbjerg, Denmark, June 2000 (45 minutes).
• Workshop on Free Probability, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, January 2000 (one hour);
• Operator Theory on the Prarie, Regina, Saskatchewan, August 1999 (principal speaker, 2 x one hour);
• Irregular Functional Analysis Seminar, Texas A&M University, August 1999, (2 x one hour);
• Workshop in C*-algebras, Münster, Germany, March 1999, (one hour);
• Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, January 1999, (2 x 45 minutes);
• Collége de France, December 1998, (90 minutes);
• Noncommutative Geometry Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1998 (30 minute plenary talk);
• C*-algebras Conference, Mathematisches Forschunginstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, February 1998, (50 minutes);
• Free Probability and Operator Spaces Conference, CIRM, Luminy, France, January 1998;
• Von Neumann Algebras and Dynamical Systems Conference, Nordfjordeid, Norway, August 1997 (45 minutes);
• Aarhus Univeristy, Analysis Seminar, March 1997 (90 minutes)
• Universiy of Copenhagen Operator Algebra Seminar, November 1996, (90 minutes);
• C*-algebras Conference, Mathematisches Forschunginstitut, Oberwolfach, Germany, April 1996 (30 minutes);
• North British Functional Analysis Seminar, Edinburgh, April 1996, (one of two speakers, 2 x one hour).
• Seminar Talk, Oslo University, March 1996 (90 minutes);
• Functional Analysis Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, September, 1995 (one hour);
• Operator Algebra Free Products and Random Matrices Workshop, Fields Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, March 1995 (80 minutes);
• Seminar Talk, University of Kyushu, February 1995 (one hour);
• Seminar Talk, University of Tokyo, February 1995 (two hours);
• Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, November 1994 (one hour);
• West Coast Operator Algebra Symposium, Los Angeles, September 1994 (one hour);
• ICM Sattelite Conference in Operator Algebras, Geneva, July 1994 (30 minutes);
• Quantum Probability Conference, Nottingham, England, March 1993 (30 minutes).
• Seminar Talks in Heidelberg, Germany, January 1993, January 1992 and August 1991.
• Quantenstochastic Conference, Mathematisches Forschunginstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 1991 (45 minutes);