Center for Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras

Welcome

The Center for Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras at Vanderbilt University consists of faculty members, postdocs, visitors and graduate students with scientific interests in noncommutative geometry, the theory of subfactors, von Neumann algebras, K-theory of operator algebras, operator theory, coarse geometry, index theory, analysis on manifolds, controlled topology, stratified spaces, harmonic analysis, quantum computing and quantum information theory. The group organizes a yearly school and international conference on noncommutative geometry and operator algebras. Each year a particular topic will be emphasized and the school will feature several mini-courses by leading experts.

News

The Fourteenth Annual NCGOA Spring Institute

May 17-25, 2016, University of Bonn

Topics: Von Neumann Algebras: Deformation/Rigidity, Free Probability and Subfactors

Director of the Fourteenth Spring Institute: Vaughan Jones Organizing Committee: Dietmar Bisch, Vaughan Jones, Sorin Popa, Dima Shlyakhtenko. More Information: Conference website.

ECOAS 15: The Thirteenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium

October 3-4, 2015, University of Iowa

Organizing committee: Ionut Chifan. Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University) and Nigel Higson (Penn State University). More information: Conference website.

ECOAS 16: The Fourteenth East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium

October 1-2, 2016, Loyola University Chicago

Organizing committee: Emily Peters. Scientific advisory committee: Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University), Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University) and Nigel Higson (Penn State University). More information: Conference website (not yet available).