Operator Algebras Learning Seminar

Victor Liao, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Properly proximal groups and their von Neumann algebras"

In this talk, I will be presenting the first part of the 2018 paper by Boutonnet, Ioana, and Peterson titled "Properly proximal groups and their von Neumann algebras". I will aim to cover the main motivation of the paper and introduce notions like proximal/boundary pieces of discrete groups, as well as properly proximal groups.