Past schedule of the Free Probability Seminar

Spring 2007 Schedule:

• April 26, Stuart White, Texas A&M University, Generators of II_1 factors.
• April 19, Dan Shiber, UCLA, Information Theory and Large Random Matrices.
• April 12, Junhao Shen, University of New Hampshire, Free Orbit Dimension of Finite von Neumann Algebras.
• April 5, Mihai Popa, Indiana University, On c-free probability with amalgamation.
• March 22, Yoshimichi Ueda, Kyushu University, HNN extensions in operator algebras.
• February 22, Benoît Collins, University of Ottawa & CNRS, Convergence of unitary matrix integrals.

Fall 2006 Schedule:

• November 30, Vladislav Kargin, Courant Institute, On Norms of Products of Free Random Variables.
• October 26, Michael Anshelevich, Texas A&M University, Free Poisson distribution (second talk).
• October 19, Michael Anshelevich, Texas A&M University, Free Poisson distribution.
• September 14, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Free entropy dimension in amalgamated free products.

Spring 2006 Schedule:

• April 24, Serban Belinschi, University of Waterloo, Time behaviour for free convolution semigroups.
• April 10, Nikolay Ivanov, Texas A&M University, Simplicity and uniqueness of trace of some reduced free products of finite-dimensional C*-algebras.
• April 3, Andreas Thom, Mathematisches Institut Göttingen, L^2-Betti numbers for von Neumann algebras and derivations.
• March 20, Kenley Jung, UCLA, Strongly 1-Bounded von Neumann algebras.
• February 20, Benoit Collins, Université Lyon 1 / University of Ottawa, Integration over compact quantum groups.
• February 6, Todd Kemp, Cornell University, Haagerup inequalities in free probability.
• January 30, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Multilinear function series and transforms in free probability theory (second talk).
• January 23, Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University, Multilinear function series and transforms in free probability theory.

Fall 2005 Schedule:

• 11/11, Sourav Chatterjee, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Statistics, A measure concentration technique, with an application to random matrices

• 11/04, no seminar due to the conference on Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamics

• 10/28, Hanne Schultz, University of Southern Denmark, The Invariant Subspace Problem Relative to a Factor of Type II_1

• 10/21, Gabriel Tucci, Texas A&M University, Free entropy dimension and B-circular operators (second talk)

• 10/14, Gabriel Tucci, Texas A&M University, Free entropy dimension and B-circular operators

• 10/07, Michael Anshelevich, Texas A&M University, Inversion of non-commutative power series and Hopf algebras (second talk)

• 09/30, Michael Anshelevich, Texas A&M University, Inversion of non-commutative power series and Hopf algebras