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SUMMARY:Math Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:
 Colloquium\n
 \n
 Adrian Ioana, UC San Diego, will 
 be speaking.\n
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 The presentation title is "Classification 
 and rigidity for group von Neumann 
 algebras."\n
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 Contact Aaron D Levin for more 
 information.\n
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 Any countable group G gives 
 rise to a von Neumann algebra L(G). The classification 
 of these group von Neumann algebras 
 is a central theme in operator algebras. 
 I will survey recent rigidity results which provide 
 instances when various algebraic properties 
 of groups, such as the presence or absence 
 of a direct product decomposition, are remembered 
 by their von Neumann algebras. I will 
 also explain the strongest such rigidity results, 
 where L(G) completely remembers G, and 
 discuss some of the open problems in the area.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Department of Mathematics\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: https://www.math.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Department of Mathematics\n
 Contact phone: (517) 353-0844\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://www.math.msu.edu/Seminars/CalendarView.aspx?month-of=September2016\n
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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