Talks and Lectures

Below is a select list of talks and lectures, some with links to slides/notes/video recordings. For lecture notes from minicourses, courses and seminars that I have run, see my teaching page or send me an email.

Selected Talks/ Lecture Series:

• Canadian Operator Algebras Symposium (COSY), University of Waterloo, May 2025.
  “Operator system limits of C*-algebras”
• Conference for the Operator-Minded Philomathic Youth (COMPhY), University of Waterloo, May 2025.
  Minicourse: “When is an operator system a C*-algebra?”
• Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium (GPOTS), University of Nebraska, June 2024.
  “Generalized Inductive Limits of C*-algebras.” (Slides)
• Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar, UC Berkeley, February 2024.
  “Nuclear C*-algebras and generalized inductive limits.” (Slides)
• C*-Algebras: Tensor Products, Approximation & Classification. University of Münster, July 2023. (Slides)
• Groundwork in Operator Algebras Lecture Series (GOALS): C*-algebras Minicourse. Online 2020, University of Montana, 2022.
• Conference on Operator Algebras & Related Topics: In memory of Vaughan Jones
  Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences and Online, June 2021
  “Nuclearity and generalized inductive limits.” (Slides)
• 8th European Congress of Mathematics, Operator Algebras Mini-Symposium. Online, June 2021.
  “Nuclearity and generalized inductive limits.” (Slides)
• Global Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Seminar (European Edition). Online, March 2021.
  ”Generalized inductive limits with asymptotically order zero maps.” (Slides)
• Actions of Tensor Categories on C*-algebras. IPAM (UCLA), Online, January 2021.
  Mini Course: “The abstract approach to classifying C*-algebras.” (Video) (Slides)
• Global Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Seminar (Americas Edition). Online, September 2020.
  ”C*-structure on images of completely positive order zero maps.” (Video)
• UK Virtual Operator Algebras Seminar. Online, May 2020.
  “Kirchberg’s QWEP Conjecture: Between Connes’ and Tsirelson’s Problems.” (Slides)
• Banff Workshop 19w5134 – Classification Problems in von Neumann Algebras. BIRS, September 2019.
  “Amalgamated Products of Strongly RFD C*-algebras arising from locally compact groups.” (Video)
• Kleines Seminar. University of Münster, Autumn 2019. “C*-ideals and nonamenability of Thompson’s Group F.” (Notes)
• East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium. Texas Christian University, October 2018.
  “Amalgamated free products of strongly RFD C*-algebras over central subalgebras.” (Slides)
• International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)- Satellite Conference in Operator Algebras. Florianópolis, Brazil, July 2018.
  “Norm attainment under finite-dimensional representations.” (Slides)
• Joint Mathematics Meetings – Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras. San Diego, CA, January 2018.
  “A von Neumann-type inequality with universal C*-algebras.” (Slides)
• University of Virginia Operator Theory Seminar. August-September 2016:
  Four-Part Lecture Series: “The WEP, the LLP, and some related conjectures according to Kirchberg.” (Lecture Notes)