Tuesday, November 14, 2023 1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
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.
MC 5417