Student NCGMP Seminar


This informal seminar features talks by and for graduate students, on a variety of topics related to noncommutative geometry / geometric functional analysis / operator algebras / etc. All grad students are welcome, both as audience-members and as speakers.


In Fall 2011, the seminar meets most Tuesdays, from 1pm to 2pm in 315 McAllister. For more information, or to be added to the seminar's mailing list, please contact Paul Siegel, Shilin Yu or Tyrone Crisp.




29 Nov 2011

Guangzhong Peng

Loop groups and positive energy representations


15 Nov 2011

Yanli Song

APS index and transversally elliptic operator


8 Nov 2011

Paul Siegel

Positive scalar curvature and rigidity for relative eta invariants


1 Nov 2011

Paul Siegel

How much positive scalar curvature is too much?  The case of the vanishing index...


25 Oct 2011

Adam Karnik

Tannaka-Krein duality


18 Oct 2011

Allan Yashinski

Hopf algebras and their modules


11 Oct 2011

Allan Yashinski

Cyclic cocycles from Lie-group actions


4 Oct 2011

Yanli Song

Localization on non-compact manifolds


27 Sep 2011

Aleksey Zelenberg

K-theory and the classification of AF algebras


20 Sep 2011

Tyrone Crisp

Principal series for GL2 over a finite field


13 Sep 2011

Shilin Yu

Jet bundle and infinitesimal neighborhoods


6 Sep 2011

Pierre Clare

Introduction to the Mackey-Rieffel(-Green) machinery