Faculty

Dietmar Bisch

Area of Research: Von Neumann Algebras, Subfactors, Quantum Information Theory

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~bisch
Email: dietmar dot bisch at vanderbilt dot edu


Alain Connes

Area of Research: Noncommutative Geometry

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/cI5esE
http://wwww.alainconnes.org
Email: alain at connes dot org


Bruce Hughes

Area of Research: Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Manifold Theory, Controlled Topology, Stratified Spaces, Continua Theory, Metric Spaces, Noncommutative Geometry

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~hughescb/
Email: bruce dot hughes at vanderbilt dot edu


Gennadi Kasparov

Area of Research: K-theory of Operator Algebras, Index Theory.

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/kasparov
Email: gennadi dot kasparov at vanderbilt dot edu


Jesse Peterson

(currently NSF postdoc at UC Berkeley, at Vanderbilt starting fall 2008)

Area of Research: Von Neumann algebras

Website: http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~jpete
Email: jpete at math dot berkeley dot edu


Daoxing Xia

Area of Research: Operator Theory and Applications, Functional Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Modern Mathematical Physics, Theory of Functions and Probability Theory

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/xia
Email: daoxingxia at netscape dot net


Guoliang Yu

Area of Research: Noncommutative Geometry, K-theory of Operator Algebras, Analysis on Manifolds

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/yu
Email: guoliang dot yu at vanderbilt dot edu


Dechao Zheng

Area of Research: Operator Theory, Harmonic Analysis

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/zheng
Email: dechao dot zheng at vanderbilt dot edu




Assistant Professors (NTT)

Shamindra Ghosh

Area of Research: Subfactors, planar algebras, category theory

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~ncgoa/
Email: shamindra dot k dot ghosh at vanderbilt dot edu


Pinhas Grossman

Area of Research: Von Neumann Algebras, Subfactors, Planar Algebras

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/ecttlu
Email: pinhas dot grossman at vanderbilt dot edu


Adrian Lim

Area of Research: Path integrals, quantization, stochastic processes

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people.html
Email: adrian dot lim at vanderbilt dot edu


Dan Ramras

Area of Research: Algebraic topology, algebraic K-theory

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/hS8tq0
Email: dan dot ramras at vanderbilt dot edu


Romain Tessera

Area of Research: Analysis on metric spaces, geometric group theory

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/tessera
Email: romain dot a dot tessera at vanderbilt dot edu


Alan Wiggins

Area of Research: Banach spaces, von Neumann algebras

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people.html
Email: alan dot d dot wiggins at vanderbilt dot edu


Yi-Jun Yao

Area of Research: Noncommutative Geometry and number theory

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people.html
Email: iyi-jun.yao at polytechnique dot org




Graduate Students

Justin Fitzpatrick

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~fitz/
Email: justin dot l dot fitzpatrick at vanderbilt dot edu


Bogdan Nica

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people.html
Email: bogdan dot nica at vanderbilt dot edu


Piotr Nowak

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~pnowak/
Email: piotr dot nowak at vanderbilt dot edu


Thomas Sinclair

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/aYKXqo
Email: thomas dot j dot sinclair at vanderbilt dot edu


Jan Spakula

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/%7Espakula/
Email: jan dot spakula at vanderbilt dot edu


Tyler Smith

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people.html
Email: tyler dot g dot smith at vanderbilt dot edu


Hang Wang

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/czDAhq
Email: hang dot wang at vanderbilt dot edu



NCGOA Graduate Students Who Have Graduated Since 2006

Mozhgan Mirani

Advisor: Bruce Hughes
Date of graduation: May 2006
Currently at University of the South, Sewanee.


Lin Shan

Advisors: Gennadi Kasparov and Guoliang Yu.
Date of graduation: May 2007
Currently at University of Muenster, Germany.


Changyong Zhong

Advisor: Dechao Zheng
Date of graduation: May 2006
Currently at Georgia State University.


Group Photo (April 2005)


Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras
Department of Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
Stevenson Center 1326
Nashville, TN 37240
U.S.A.
Phone: (615) 322-6672
Fax: (615) 343-0215
E-mail: ncgoa[at]vanderbilt[dot]edu