Purdue Operator Algebras Research Group
The OA Research Group host a number of events including the Operator Algebras Seminar, The Operator Algebras Student Seminar self-organized by our graduate students, and a von Neumann Algebras Research Seminar supervised by Rolando de Santiago and Krishnendu Khan. Specifics can be found by locating our calendar below.
Members
Faculty
Rolando de Santiago
Rolando's main area of expertise is in the area of classification of group von Neumann algebras.Visitors
Krishnendu Khan
Graduate Student Researchers
Patrick DeBonis
Andreas Alexi Kavouras
Forrest Glebe
Iason Moutzouris
A fifth year PhD student at Purdue University working on understanding which C* algebras have a nice finite dimensional approximation property called quasidiagonality, as well as for which (non torsion free) groups, the (full) group C*-algebra has many projections.
Connor Thompson
Hao Wan
Undergradute Student Researchers
Colton Griffin
Meenakshi McNamara
Calendar of Events
You can view detailed information about our Student Seminar, our von Neumamn Algebras Seminar or the Operator Algebras Seminar here. Conferences, workshops and other upcoming notable events will be listed below.
- Women in Operator Algebras Workshop Jun 25-30, 2023
- YMC*A Aug 7-11
- Thematic Program on Operator Algebras and Applications , Jul 1- Dec 31, 2023
- "Noncommutative harmonic analysis and rigidity of operator algebras" August 21-25, 2023
- Special Session on Recent Developments in Operator Algebras and Quantum Information Theory, Sept 9, 2023
- Wabash Mini Conference Sept 30-Oct 1, 2023
- Hot Topics: MIP* = RE and the Connes’ Embedding Problem, Oct 16-20, 2023
- ECOAS 2023 at Purdue University, Oct 21-22 2023
Updates and News
- (Apr 28) Purdue Mathematics recognizes Rolando's amazing teaching and mentoring with the Spira Award!
- (Apr 7) Congratulations to Patrick DeBonis for passing their Advanced Topics. Next stop, PhD!
- (Apr 1) Meenakshi McNamara discusses their progress on at the Purdue AWM Symposium
- (Mar 29) Let's all congratulate Colton Griffin for earning the NSF Graduate Research Felloship! Best of luck when starting at U Penn in the Fall!
- (Mar 20) Patrick DeBonis heads over to MSU to give an invited talk in the Mathematical Physics and Operator Algebras Seminar seminar on properties of Thompson-like gropus.
- (Feb 28) Meenakshi McNamra travels to OSU to present their work on b-fold chromatic numbrs of quantum graphs in the Quantum Symmetries Seminar
- (Feb 16) Rolando de Santiago discusses ongoing progress on the properties of graph products of von Neumann algebras at the Claremont Colleges Analysis seminar .
- (Feb 15) Rolando de Santiago gives an invited talk at the Claremont Center for Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
- (Feb 10-12) Patrick DeBonis, Rolando de Santiago, Krishnendu Khan, and Connor Thompson head down to UCSD for the von Neumann Algebras and Geometric Group Theory Conference.
- Meenakshi McNamara travels to Boston for the Joint Mathematics Meeting, 2023
- (Nov 12-13) The OA crew travels down to UIPUI for the Wabash Seminar. A special thanks goes to to Thomas Sinclair for organizing this great event. Check out Forrest's, Colton's and Meenakshi's slides from their amazing talks here:
- Colton Griffin - Approximating projections by quantum operations
- Forrest Glebe - A recipe for almost representations that are far from genuine representations
- Meenakshi McNamara - Quantum Chromatic Numbers of Lexicographical Products of Quantum Graphs
- (Nov3-5) Patrick DeBonis, Meenakshi McNamara, and Hao Wan head visit Chicago to attend QIT Meets QLA II
- (Oct 26-27) Rolando de Santiago heads to Puerto Rico for the Modern Math Workshop to present research done jointly with Meenakshi McNamara.
- (Oct 22-23, 2022) The OA Group travels to MSU for ECOAS.
- (Aug 29-Sept 2, 2022) Rolando de Santiago and Thomas Sinclair visit the Hausdorrf Institute fur Mathematics for the Follow up Workshop to the "von Neumann Algebras" trimester program.
- (Aug 2022) The OA Research Group welcomes Krishnendu Khan!
- (Jul 18-30,2022) Rolando de Santiago, Patrick DeBonis, Connor Thompson, and Hao Wan travel to UMT to participate in the 2022 iteration of GOALS
- (May23-27, 2022) Rolando de Santiago, Forrest Glebe, Iason M and Andrew Toms attend GPOTS. Presentations by Forrest, Iason, and Andrew.
- (Apr 23, 2022) The Operator Algebras Researach Group travels to The Wabash Mini Conference .
- (Apr 11, 2022) Meenakshi and Colton present the outcomes of their research at 2022 Spring Undergraduate Research Conference. Great job to both of you, and a special congratulations to Meenakshi for being awarded 2nd Place among all participants from the College of Science
- (Mar 26-27, 2022) Rolando de Santiago, Roy Araiza, Thomas Sinclair, and Andrew Toms co-organize the Spring Central Sectional Meeting, featuring talks by Iason and Forrest.