1985, Maîtrise (Mathematics), Université Paul Sabatier
(Toulouse III), France.
1987, Hauptdiplom (Mathematics), Universität Karlsruhe, Germany.
1991, Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
Positions
Director, Center for Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras,
Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics,
2007-present. Department Chair, Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics,
2005-2016. Professor, Vanderbilt University, Department of Mathematics,
2002-present. Professor, UCSB, Department of Mathematics, 2001-2004. Associate Professor, UCSB, Department of Mathematics, 1997-2001. Assistant Professor, UCSB, Department of Mathematics, 1995-1997. Morrey Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics,
1994-1995. Morrey Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics,
1992-1993.
Visiting Positions
Visiting Researcher, SMRI, The University of Sydney, UNSW and ANU, Australia, January-February 2025. Member, SLMath/MSRI Berkeley, July-August 2024. Research Professor, MSRI Berkeley, March-May 2020. Visiting Scholar, Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, May 2018. Member, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, May-June 2017. Campus Visitor, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, February 2017. UCLA Guest, UCLA, Los Angeles, September 2016 to August 2017. Member, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany,
May 2016, July-August 2016. Member, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden,
April 2016. Visiting Scholar, UCLA, Los Angeles, November 2012 to August 2013. Visiting Professor (Gastforscher), University of Bonn, October 2012. Visiting Professor, Institut Henri Poincaré/Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6),
Paris, France, May 2011. Member, Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany,
November 2009. Visiting Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles, academic year 2008-09. Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France,
Spring 2007. Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse,
France, Spring 2005. Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Summer 2003. Member, MSRI, Berkeley, Quantum Computing Program, Fall 2002. Research Associate, Vanderbilt University, Summer 2002. Visiting Miller Professor, Miller Institute, UC Berkeley, Fall semester 2001. Research Professor, MSRI, Berkeley, Fall semester 2000. Visiting Professor, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, Fall 1999. Heisenberg Fellow, UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics,
1997-1998. Visiting Professor, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France, Summer 1997 and Summer 1996. Heisenberg Fellow, UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics,
1995-1996. Research Fellow, Fields Institute, Waterloo, Canada, Spring 1995. Research Fellow, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, Summer 1994. Invited Researcher, Freie Universtät Berlin, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Spring semester 1994. Visiting Professor, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, Fall semester 1993. MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow, MSRI, Berkeley, 1991-1992. Visiting Member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris,
France, Spring 1990, Fall 1991, Summer 1992.
Grants
US ARO Grant W911NF-23-1-0026, 1/1/2023-12/31/2026.
Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant #359625, 2015-2022.
NSF Grant DMS-2000214, 2020-2023.
NSF Grant DMS-1855778, 2019-2020.
NSF Grant DMS-1800204, 2018-2019.
NSF Grant DMS-1700457, 2017-2018.
NSF Grant DMS-1600819, 2016-2017.
Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics grant, Trimester Program Von
Neumann Algebras,
May-August 2016.
NSF Grant DMS-1500926, 2015-2016.
DARPA Grant HR0011-12-1-0009, 2012-2014.
NSF Grant DMS-1001560, 2010-2013.
DARPA Grant HR0011-11-1-001, 2010-2012.
NSF Grant DMS-0653717, 2007-2010.
NSF Grant DMS-0849242, Special Meetings ``Annual Spring Institute in NCGOA'', 2009-2013.
NSF Research Training Group Grant DMS-0353640, 2004-2009.
Clay Math Institute Grant ``CMI/Shanks International Conference and
Spring School'', 2003-2004.
NSF Conference Grant DMS-0330617, 2003-2004.
NSF Grant DMS-0200450/0301173, 2002-2007.
NSF Grant DMS-9877067, 1999-2002.
NSF Grant DMS-9531566, 1996-1999.
NSF Grant DMS-9307234, 1993-1996.
Awards and Honors
SMRI International Visitor Award, Sydney Math Research Institute,
January-February 2025 (awarded in October 2023).
Research Professorship, MSRI, Berkeley, Spring 2020.
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, November 2012.
Clay Mathematics Institute Scholarship, Summer 2002 and Summer 2003.
Invited 45-Minute Lecture at International Congress of Mathematicians,
Beijing, China, August 2002.
Visiting Miller Professorship, Miller Institute, Berkeley, Fall 2001.
Research Professorship, MSRI, Berkeley, Fall 2000.
Invited Plenary Address, AMS Meeting, UC Santa Barbara, March 2000.
Heisenberg Fellowship, 1995-1996 and 1997-1998.
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship 1995-1997 (declined).
MSRI Postdoctoral Fellowship 1991-1992.
Hermann-Billing-Preis, 1988.
Students
Anne Louise Svendsen, Ph.D. 2002, UCSB. Now researcher
at the University of Copenhagen.
Paramita Das, Ph.D. 2008, University of New Hampshire
(official advisor: Don Hadwin). Das was visiting Vanderbilt from 2006 to
2008. I served as her advisor during this period. Postdoc at KU Leuven, then
Assistant Professor at ISI Kolkata.
Tyler Smith, 2006-2008, Masters 2008, Vanderbilt University.
Remi Boutonnet, 2010, Ph.D. student from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
(supervised Masters thesis). Masters University Denis Diderot (Paris 7),
May 2011.
Thomas Sinclair (co-advisor Jesse Peterson), 2007-2011, Vanderbilt University.
Postdoc at UCLA and IU, now tenured professor Purdue University.
Jun Yang (co-advisor Vaughan Jones), 2020-June 2021, Vanderbilt University.
Graduated in summer 2021. Now postdoc at Harvard University.
Hrvoje Stojanovic, 2018-2021, Vanderbilt University. Graduated 12/18/2021.
Data scientist at Mireo.
Michael Montgomery, 2019-2022, Vanderbilt University. Graduated in summer
2022. Now postdoc at Dartmouth College.
Julio Caceres, 2020-2024, Vanderbilt University. Now postdoc at Vanderbilt.
Junhwi Lim, 2021-present, Vanderbilt University.
Postdocs
Alexis Alevras, UCSB, 1999-2002. Associate rofessor at the US Naval
Academy.
Imre Tuba, UCSB, 2000-2002. Then Assistant Professor at San Diego State
University. Now Visiting Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College.
Remus Nicoara, Vanderbilt University, 2004-2007. Professor at
UT Knoxville.
Paramita Das, Vanderbilt University, 2008-2009. Postdoc at KU Leuven,
now Assistant Professor (tenured) at ISI Kolkata.
Shamindra Ghosh, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2009. Postdoc at KU Leuven,
now Assistant Professor (tenured) at ISI Kolkata.
Pinhas Grossman, Vanderbilt University, 2006-2009. Postdoc at IMPA,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Associate Professor at University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia.
Alan Wiggins, Vanderbilt University, 2007-2009. Associate Professor at
University of Michigan, Dearborn.
Richard Burstein, Vanderbilt University, 2009-2012. Works for a company.
Natasha Blitvic, Vanderbilt University, 2012-2013. Postdoc at Indiana University, Bloomington. Now Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK.
Arnaud Brothier, 2013-2016. Senior Lecturer (in the Australian system)
at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Scott Atkinson, 2016-17. Then Postdoc at Vanderbilt (renewed). Data
Scientist at Merkle.
Cain Edie-Michell, 2018-21. S.E.W. postdoc at UCSD. Now Assistant Professor
at University of New Hampshire.
Luca Giorgetti, Marie-Curie Fellow, 2019-21 at Vanderbilt. Now
Assistant Professor (NTT) at University Rome Tor Vergata.
Peter Huston, Vanderbilt University, 2022-present.
Quan Chen, Vanderbilt University, 2023-present.
Julio Caceres, Vanderbilt University, 2024-present.
Conferences Organized
Upcoming Conferences:
Organizer of the Oberwolfach workshop Subfactors and Applications,
July 27 - August 1, 2025.
Past Conferences:
Organizer of the Eighteenth Annual Spring Institute on
Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University,
May 8-11, 2023 (postponed from May 2020 due to COVID).
Organizer of the HIM workshop Von Neumann Algebras, Hausdorff
Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, August 29-September 2, 2022
(postponed from April 2021 due to COVID).
Organizer of the Oberwolfach workshop Subfactors and Applications,
October 27 - November 2, 2019.
Main Organizer of the 34th Shanks Lecture and International Conference,
in combination with the Seventeenth Annual Spring Institute on
Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University,
May 3-9, 2019.
Organizer of the Shanks workshop Free Probability and Applications,
Vanderbilt University, September 15-16, 2018.
Organizer of the Sixteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, Germany, May 14-19, 2018.
Main Organizer of the special session Advances in Operator Algebras,
sectional AMS meeting, Vanderbilt University, April 14-15, 2018.
Main Organizer of the Shanks workshop Subfactors and Applications,
Vanderbilt University, September 30 - October 1, 2017.
Organizer of the Operator algebras satellite conference, Fields Institute, Toronto, July 31 - August 4, 2017.
Organizer of the special session Von Neumann algebras and applications, 2017 Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Montreal, July 24-28, 2017.
Organizer of the conference Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and
Planar Algebras, University of Hawai'i Maui College, Maui,
July 17-21, 2017.
Organizer of the Fifteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 5-11, 2017.
Main Organizer, Trimester Program Von Neumann Algebras at HIM, Bonn, Germany, May 2 - August 26, 2016.
Main Organizer of the HIM workshop Von Neumann Algebras,
HIM, Bonn, July 4-8, 2016.
Main Organizer of the Fourteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Hausdorff Research Institute for
Mathematics (HIM) and University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, May 17-25, 2016.
Organizer of the Thirteenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 1-7, 2015.
Organizer of the Oberwolfach workshop Subfactors and Conformal Field
Theory, March 23-27, 2015.
Organizer of the first joint Indiana University-Vanderbilt University
Seminar, Vanderbilt University, November 1, 2014.
Organizer of the workshop Subfactor Theory in Mathematics and
Physics, Maui, HI, July 2014.
Organizer of the Twelfth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2-8, 2014.
Organizer of the DARPA-Shanks workshop Quantum Symmetries,
Vanderbilt University, October 26-27, 2013.
Organizer of the workshop Subfactors in Maui, Maui, HI, July 2013.
Organizer of the Eleventh Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 5-9, 2013.
Organizer of the workshop Subfactors in Maui, Maui, HI, July 2012.
Main Organizer of the Tenth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2012.
Organizer of the Shanks workshop Conformal Field Theory and
von Neumann Algebras, Vanderbilt, October 29-30, 2011.
Organizer of the microworkshop Subfactors, Planar Algebras and
Random Matrices, Maui, HI, July 24-30, 2011.
Organizer of the Ninth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2011.
Organizer of the Appalachian Set Theory Workshop (main speaker:
A. Kechris), Vanderbilt University, October 30, 2010.
Organizer of the workshop Subfactors, Planar Algebras and
Random Matrices, UCLA, October 2010.
Main Organizer of the Eighth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2010.
Main Organizer of the Shanks workshop Subfactors and Fusion
Categories, Vanderbilt University, February 2010.
Organizer of the Seventh Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2009.
Organizer of the workshop Von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory
of Group Actions, Oberwolfach, October/November 2008.
Main Organizer of the Sixth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2008.
Main Organizer of the Shanks workshop on Subfactors and Planar
Algebras, Vanderbilt University, April 2008.
Organizer of the workshop Von Neumann Algebras,
Fields Institute Toronto, October 2007.
Organizer of the workshop Free Probability, Random Matrices, and
Operator Algebras, Fields Institute Toronto, September 2007.
Organizer of the Thematic Program on Operator Algebras,
Fields Institute Toronto, July-December 2007.
Main Organizer of the Fifth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2007.
Organizer of the Lecture Series on L2-Betti numbers
for von Neumann algebras by Andreas Thom,
Vanderbilt University, October 2006.
Organizer of the Lecture Series on Deformation and rigidity
results of crossed product II1 factors by Stefaan Vaes
, Vanderbilt University, September 2006.
Organizer of the Fourth Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2006.
Organizer of the Lecture Series on the Quantum Hall Effect
by Jean Bellissard , Vanderbilt University, December 2005.
Main Organizer of the Third Annual Spring Institute on
Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras in conjunction with
the 20th Shanks Lecture, Vanderbilt University, May 2005.
Main Organizer of the Special Session Von Neumann Algebras and
Noncommutative Ergodic Theory, AMS Meeting, Vanderbilt University, October 2004.
Organizer of the Second Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2004.
Main Organizer of the First East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium,
Vanderbilt University, September 2003.
Co-Organizer of the Oberwolfach Tagung C*-Algebren, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 2003.
Organizer of the CMI International Conference and Spring School
in conjunction with the 18th Shanks Lectures on Noncommutative Geometry
and Applications, Vanderbilt University, May 2003.
Co-Organizer of the Oberwolfach Tagung C*-Algebren, Oberwolfach, Germany, December 2001.
Co-Organizer of the MSRI workshop Subfactors and Algebraic Aspects of
Quantum Field Theory, MSRI, Berkeley, December 2000.
Main Organizer of the Clay Mathematics Institute Introductory Workshop in
Operator Algebras, MSRI, Berkeley, August 2000.
Main Organizer of the Special Session Subfactors and Free Probability Theory, AMS Meeting, UC Santa Barbara, March 2000.
Co-Organizer of the Oberwolfach Tagung C*-Algebren, Oberwolfach,
Germany, Feburary 1998.
Main Organizer of the 6th West Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, UCSB,
October 1997.
Main Organizer of the mini-workshop Von Neumann Algebras,
UC Berkeley, May 1996.
Main Organizer of the mini-workshop Von Neumann Algebras,
UC Berkeley, May 1995.
Selected Invited Lectures at Conferences
1994-2024
Invited Speaker, Quantum Symmetries Program, SLMath, Berkeley,
July 2024.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors and Fusion (2-)Categories”,
Banff, December 3-8, 2023.
Invited Speaker, Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics,
University of Tokyo, July 24-28, 2023.
Invited Speaker, Operator Algebras: Subfactors and Applications,
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, June 26-30, 2023..
Invited Speaker, From Subfactors to Quantum Topology - In Memory of Vaughan Jones, University of Geneva, June 2022.
Invited Speaker, Memorial Tribute to Sir Vaughan Jones, University of Auckland, NZ, December 2020 (Zoom video).
Invited Speaker, Subfactors in Maui, Maui, July 2019.
Invited Speaker, Operator Algebras and Applications, The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, June 2019.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors in Sydney 2019, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, February 2019.
Invited Speaker, Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and Planar Algebras,
University of Hawaii Maui College, Maui, July 2017.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors, K-theory and Conformal Field Theory, Isaac
Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, June 2017.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors and Representation Theory at Kioloa 2017,
Australian National University, February 2017.
Invited Speaker, The mathematical legacy of Uffe Haagerup,
University of Copenhagen, June 2016.
Invited Speaker, Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry & Operator
Algebras, HIM and University of Bonn, May 2016.
Invited Speaker, Classification of Operator Algebras, Mittag-Leffler
Institute, Stockholm, April 2016.
Invited Speaker, Subfactor Theory in Mathematics and Physics,
Maui, July 2014.
Invited Speaker, AMS sectional meeting, UT Knoxville, March 2014.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors in Maui, Maui, July 2013.
Plenary Speaker, Canadian Annual Symposium on Operator Algebras and their Applications, University of Toronto and Fields Institute, May 27-31,
2013.
Plenary Speaker, Wabash Mini-Conference, IUPUI, Indianapolis,
September 15-16, 2012.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors in Maui, Maui, July 16-20, 2012.
Invited Participant, Subfactors and Fusion Categories, AIM, Palo Alto,
March 16-20, 2012.
Plenary Speaker, International Conference Von Neumann Algebras and Related Topics, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan January 9-13, 2012.
Invited Participant, L^2 invariants and their relatives for finitely generated groups, AIM, Palo Alto, September 12-16, 2011.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors in Maui, Maui, July 2011.
Invited Lecture Series, Microworkshop Subfactors, Planar Algebras and
Random Matrices, Maui, July 2011.
Invited Speaker, II1 factors: rigidity, symmetries
and classification, Insitut Henri Poincare, Paris, May 2011.
Invited Speaker, AMS Annual Meeting, Special Session Von Neumann
Algebras, New Orleans, January 2011.
Invited Speaker, East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium,
Dartmouth College, October 2010.
Invited Speaker, AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session Free Probability
and Subfactors, UCLA, October 2010.
Invited Speaker, Subfactors, Planar Algebras and
Random Matrices, UCLA, October 2010.
Invited Speaker, NCGOA 2010, Von Neumann algebras, Vanderbilt
University, May 2010.
Invited Speaker, Danish-Norwegian Operator Algebras Seminar
(Uffe Fest), Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2010.
Invited Speaker, C*-Algebras workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany,
March 2010.
Invited Speaker, Rigidity in cohomology, K-theory, geometry and
ergodic theory, Hausdorff Insitute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany,
November 2009.
Plenary Speaker, Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, University of
Colorado, Boulder, June 2009.
Invited Lecture Series (3 lectures), Subfactors, Planar Algebras
and Quantum Computing, University of Puerto Rico, February 2009.
Main Invited Speaker, Annual AMS Meeting, Special Session on ``Von
Neumann Algebras'', Washington D.C., January 2009.
Invited Speaker, Von Neumann Algebras and Ergodic Theory of
Group Actions, Oberwolfach, Germany, October 2008.
Invited Speaker, Operator algebras and conformal field theory,
Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, September 2008.
Invited Speaker, C*-Algebras workshop, Oberwolfach, Germany,
August 2008.
Distinguished Lecture Series, Subfactors and Planar Algebras,
Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 2008 (6 lectures).
Invited Speaker, AMS Western Section Meeting, Special Session
C*-algebras, subfactors and free probability, Claremont
McKenna College, May 2008.
Invited Speaker, Topics in von Neumann Algebras, Banff, Canada,
March 2008.
Invited Speaker, Free Probability, Random Matrices, and Planar
Algebras, Fields Institute, Toronto, September 17 - 21, 2007.
Plenary Speaker, Wabash Conference, Indianapolis, September 8-9,
2007.
Invited Lecture Series (5 lectures), Subfactors and Planar Algebras,
Operator Algebras Summer School, Ottawa, August 13-17, 2007.
Main Invited Speaker, Maui Subfactor Conference, Kahului, Maui,
July 2007.
Invited Speaker, Algebraic, geometric and probabilistic aspects of
amenability, Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, June 2007.
Plenary Speaker, Noncommutative Geometry, conference in honor of Alain
Connes' 60th birthday, Paris, April 2007.
Main Invited Speaker, US-Japan Operator Algebras conference and WCOAS,
University of Hawaii, January 2007.
Invited Speaker, Topics in von Neumann Algebras, Banff, September 2006.
Distinguished Lecture Series (Frontiers Lectures), Texas A&M Universty,
April 2006.
Plenary Speaker, Third East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, September 2005.
Main Speaker, Oberwolfach Meeting C*-Algebras, August 2005.
Plenary Speaker, Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, Orlando, Florida, June 2005.
Invited Speaker, Third Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative
Geometry and Operator Algebras, Vanderbilt University, May 2005.
Invited Speaker, AMS Meeting, Special Session Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic Theory, Vanderbilt University, October 2004.
Invited Lecture Series on Quantum Computing, Fudan University,
Shanghai, China, June 2004.
Invited Lecture Series on II1 factors, CIRM, Marseille, France, February 2004.
Invited Lecture Series on Quantum Information Theory and Quantum
Computing, ENS, Paris, June 2003.
Main Speaker, Operator Algebras conference in honor of M. Takesaki's 70th birthday, UCLA, May 2003.
Invited Speaker, AMS Annual Meeting, Special Session in Operator Algebras, Baltimore, January 2003.
Invited Address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing, China,
August 2002.
Main Speaker, ICM Satellite Conference Operator Algebras and Applications, Chengde, China, August 2002.
Main Speaker, Oberwolfach Meeting C*-Algebras, December 2001.
Main Speaker, Wabash Conference, Bloomington, September 2001.
Main Speaker, Canadian Operator Theory Symposium, Berkeley, April 2001.
Main Speaker, Operator Algebras conference, Nelson, New Zealand, January 2001.
Main Speaker, MSRI workshop Subfactors and Algebraic Aspects of Quantum Field Theory, MSRI, Berkeley, December 2000.
Invited Speaker, AMS Meeting, Special Session Operator Algebras,
San Francisco, October 2000.
Main Speaker, CMI Introductory Workshop in Operator Algebras,
MSRI, August 2000.
Main Speaker, Canadian Operator Theory Symposium/Fields Legacy Symposium,
Toronto, June 2000.
Invited Lecture Series, ICMS conference Operator Algebras and Operator
Spaces, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2000.
Main (=Plenary) Speaker, AMS Meeting, Santa Barbara, March 2000.
Main Speaker, 8th West Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, Victoria, Canada,
October 1999.
Main Speaker, conference C*-tensor categories and mathematical
physics, Cortona, Italy, August 1999.
Main Speaker, conference Operator Algebras and Noncommutative
Geometry, Cargèse, France, June 1999.
Invited Lecture Series, conference Operator Algebras and Applications,
CIRM (Marseille), October 1998.
Invited Speaker, AMS Meeting, Special Session Operator Algebras and Noncommutative Geometry, Penn State University, October 1998.
Main Speaker, Oberwolfach Meeting C*-Algebras, February 1998.
Main Speaker, conference Von Neumann Algebras and Dynamical Systems,
Sophus Lie Center, Norway, August 1997.
Main Speaker, GPOTS, Kingston, Canada, May 1997.
Main Speaker, 5th West Coast Operator Algebras Symposium, University of
British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, September 1996.
Main Speaker, conference Operator Algebras and Quantum Field Theory,
Rome, Italy, July 1996.
Main Speaker, Oberwolfach Meeting C*-Algebras, April 1996.
Main Speaker, conference Statistical Mechanics, Conformal Field Theory
and Quantum Groups, Tolaga Bay, New Zealand, January 1996.
Main Speaker, workshop Subfactors and Applications, Fields Institute,
Waterloo, Canada, March 1995.
Invited Speaker, German Mathematical Society Meeting, Special Session in
operator algebras, Duisburg, September 1994.
Main Speaker, ICM Satellite conference Operator Algebras and Applications, Geneva, July 1994.
Main Speaker, workshop Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and the Jones
Theory of Subfactors, Berlin, April 1994.
Main Speaker, Oberwolfach Meeting C*-Algebras, February 1994.
Selected Colloquia and
Seminar Talks 2007-2024
Oberseminar C*-Algebras, University of Muenster, June 2024.
Mathematical Physics Seminar, FA University Erlangen, June 2024.
Research Seminar Noncommutative and Functional Analysis, University
Saarland, Saarbruecken, June 2024.
Functional Analysis Seminar, UCLA, April 2024.
UCC Mathematical Sciences Seminar Series (colloquium), Cork, Ireland,
March 2024.
Quantum Mathematics Seminar, UCC Cork, Ireland, March 2024.
Functional Analysis Seminar, UC San Diego, February 2024.
Mathematical Picture Language Project Seminar, Harvard University,
March 2021 (Zoom seminar).
Mathematics Colloquium (Pure Maths Seminar), University of New South Wales,
Sydney, February 2020.
Mathematics Colloquium, Australian National University, Canberra, November 2019.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Riverside, June 2018.
Oberseminar Analysis and Theoretical Physics, University of Hannover, May 2018.
Mathematical Physics Research Seminar, University of Hamburg, May 2018.
Oberseminar C*-Algebras, Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, May 2018.
Noncommutative Geometry Seminar, The Ohio State University, March 2018.
Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar, UC Berkeley, March 2018.
Analysis Seminar, University of Glasgow, UK, May 2017.
Operator Algebras Seminar, UC San Diego, April 2017.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Riverside, April 2017.
Mathematics Colloquium, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2017.
Mathematics Colloquium, Purdue University, March 2017.
Mathematics Seminar, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, February 2017.
Pure Maths Seminar, University of New South Wales, School
of Mathematics, Sydney, Australia, February 2017.
Functional Analysis Seminar, UCLA, October 2016.
Mathematical Physics Seminar, Harvard University, October 2016.
Mathematics Colloquium, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany,
July 2016.
Mathematics Colloquium (Wilhelm Killing Kolloquium), Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, Germany,
April 2015.
Focus Program C*-algebras (Seminar talk), Westfaelische
Wilhelms-University Muenster, Germany, April 2015.
Functional Analysis Seminar, UCLA, October 2014.
Mathematics Colloquium, University of Virginia, September 2014.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Riverside, April 2014.
Special Seminar, UC San Diego, April 2013.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Riverside, April 2013.
Operator Algebra Seminar, University of Iowa, March 2013.
Operator Algebra Seminar, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, November 2012.
Oberseminar Topology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, October 2012.
Oberseminar C*-Algebras, Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, October 2012.
Operator Algebras Seminar, UC San Diego, April 2012.
Noncommutative Geometry Seminar, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, May 2011.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Riverside, March 2011.
Mathematics Colloquium, University of the Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany, November 2010.
Oberseminar C*-Algebras, Westfaelische Wilhelms-University Muenster, November 2010.
Mathematics Colloquium, UT Knoxville, November 2009.
Functional Analysis Seminar, UCLA, May 2009.
Mathematics Colloquium, KU Leuven, May 2009.
Operator Algebras Seminar, KU Leuven, May 2009.
Operator Algebras Seminar, University of Tokyo, April 2009.
Mathematics Colloquium, University of Puerto Rico, February 2009.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC San Diego, April 2008.
Mathematics Colloquium, UC Riverside, April 2008.
Operator Algebras Seminar, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, May 2007.
Selected Publications
1. D. Bisch,
On the existence of central sequences in subfactors,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
321
(1990), 117--128.
2. D. Bisch, Entropy of groups
and subfactors, J. of Funct. Anal.
103 (1992),
190--208.
3. D. Bisch,
A note on intermediate subfactors,
Pacific J. Math.
163 (1994), 201--216.
4. D. Bisch,
An example of an irreducible subfactor of the
hyperfinite II1 factor with rational, noninteger index,
J. reine angew. Math.
455 (1994), 21--34.
5. D. Bisch and U. Haagerup,
Composition of subfactors: new examples of infinite depth subfactors,
Ann. Scient. Ec. Norm. Sup.
29 (1996), 329--383.
6. D. Bisch,
Bimodules, higher relative commutants and the fusion algebra
associated to a subfactor,
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical
Sciences Communications Series, Vol.
13 (1997), 13--63.
7. D. Bisch and V.F.R. Jones,
Algebras associated to intermediate subfactors,
Invent. Math.
128 (1997), no. 1, 89--157.
8. D. Bisch and S. Popa,
Examples of subfactors with property T standard invariant,
Geom. Funct. Anal.
9 (1999), no. 2, 215--225.
9. D. Bisch and V.F.R. Jones,
Singly generated planar algebras of small dimension,
Duke Math. Journal
101 (2000), no. 1, 41--75.
10. D. Bisch,
Subfactors and planar algebras,
Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II
(Beijing, 2002), 775--785.
11. D. Bisch and V.F.R. Jones,
Singly generated planar algebras of small dimension, Part II,
Advances Math.
175 (2003), no. 2, 297--318.
12. T. Banica and D. Bisch,
Spectral measures of small index principal graphs,
Commun. Math. Phys. 269 (2007), 259-281.
13. D. Bisch, R. Nicoara and S. Popa,
Continuous families of hyperfinite subfactors with the same standard
invariant,
International Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2007) 255-267.
14. D. Bisch, P. Das and S.K. Ghosh,
The planar algebra of group-type subfactors,
J. Funct. Anal. 257 (2009), no. 1, 20-46.
15. D. Bisch, P. Das and S.K. Ghosh,
The planar algebra of diagonal subfactors,
Quanta of maths, 23–47, Clay Math. Proc., 11, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2010.
16. D. Bisch, P. Das and S.K. Ghosh,
The planar algebra of group-type subfactors with cocycle,
preprint.
17. D. Bisch, V. Jones and Z. Liu,
Singly generated planar algebras of small dimension, Part III,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 369 (2017) 2461-2476.
18. D. Bisch, P. Das, S.K. Ghosh, N. Rakshit,
Tube algebra of group-type subfactors, Internat. J. Math. 28 (2017),
no. 10, 32 pp.
19. D. Bisch and V. Jones,
Free product for planar algebras, and subfactors,
in preparation.
20. D. Bisch,
Degrees of noncommutativity for subfactors,
in preparation.
21. D. Bisch, D.E. Evans, R. Kirby and S. Popa,
Memories of Vaughan Jones, , Notices Amer. Math. Soc.
68 (2021), no. 9, 1540–1563.
22. D. Bisch,
Vaughan Jones – Friend, Mentor and Collaborator,
Pure Appl. Math. Q. 19 (2023), no. 5, 2235-2239.
23. D. Bisch and J. Caceres,
Graph planar algebra embeddings and infinite depth subfactors,
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24. D. Bisch and J. Caceres,
New hyperfinite subfactors with infinite depth,
in preparation.
Campus Governance & Various Administrative Experience
Director of the Center for Noncommutative Geometry and Operator
Algebras (NCGOA) at Vanderbilt University, 2007-present.
Faculty Senate, elected senator for the College of Arts & Science,
Vanderbilt University, 2019-23.
Faculty Council, elected representative of Natural Sciences, College
of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University, 2018-20.
Department Chair, 2005-2016.
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the East Coast Operator
Algebras Conferences, 2003-present.
Chair/member of several PhD and personnel committees at UCSB and Vanderbilt.
Chair/member of several hiring committees at UCSB and Vanderbilt, 1996-present.
California NanoSystems Institute, Faculty Committee, UCSB, 2001-2002.
Quantum Information Science Initiative (UCSB), 2000-2002.
Central Fellowship Committee (campus wide), UCSB, 1998-1999.
Mathematics Colloquium Chairman (UCSB and Vanderbilt).
Chair/member of various departmental committees (e.g. advisory committee
to the chair, library, computer, teaching, graduate etc.) at UCSB and
Vanderbilt.
Member of various professional committees/panels, including several NSF panels
(more details can be provided upon request).