PhD Thesis Defense

Jaspar Wiart, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Four Years in Thirty Minutes"

In my four years at UW I completed two research projects. For the first project I computed the C*-envelopes of a family of isometric semicrossed products arising from number theory. In the second I characterized the Jacobson radical of certain semicrossed products of simple unital C*-algebras with sufficiently nice semigroups. In this talk I will briefly summarize what I did in reverse chronological order.

MC 2009