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


Vaughan Jones

Area of Research: Von Neumann algebras

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/jones
Email: vaughan dot f dot jones 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

Area of Research: Von Neumann algebras

Website: http://www..math.vanderbilt.edu/people/peterson
Email: jesse dot d dot peterson at vanderbilt 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)

Richard Burstein

Area of Research: Subfactors, planar algebras

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/jUD1Ic
Email: richard dot d dot burstein at vanderbilt dot edu


Ionut Chifan

Area of Research: Von Neumann Algebras, II1 factors, ergodic theory

Website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/math/people/chifan
Email: ionut dot chifan at vanderbilt dot edu


Darren Creutz

Area of Research: Ergodic theory

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/hGLYXu
Email: darren dot creutz at vanderbilt dot edu


Stacy Hoehn

Area of Research: Manifolds, algebraic topology, K-theory

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/hoehn
Email: stacy dot l dot hoehn at vanderbilt dot edu


Zhizhang Xie

Area of Research: Index theory, Noncommutative geometry

Website: http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/cla57q
Email: zhizhang dot xie at vanderbilt dot edu




Graduate Students

Fan Fei Chong

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/chong
Email: fan dot f dot chong at vanderbilt dot edu


Zhengwei Liu

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/
Email: zhengwei dot liu at vanderbilt dot edu


Jianchao Wu

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people/wu
Email: jianchao dot wu at vanderbilt dot edu


Dapeng Zhou

Website: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/people.html
Email: dapeng dot zhou at vanderbilt dot edu



NCGOA Graduate Students Who Have Graduated Since 2006

Mozhgan Mirani

Advisor: Bruce Hughes
Date of graduation: May 2006
Currently at Tennessee State University.


Bogdan Nica

Advisor: Guoliang Yu.
Date of graduation: May 2009
Currently at University of Victoria


Piotr Nowak

Advisor: Guoliang Yu.
Date of graduation: May 2008
Currently at Texas A&M University.


Lin Shan

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


Thomas Sinclair

Advisors: Dietmar Bisch, Jesse Peterson.
Date of graduation: May 2a110
Currently at UCLA.


Jan Spakula

Advisor: Guoliang Yu.
Date of graduation: May 2008
Currently at University of Muenster, Germany.


Hang Wang

Advisor: Gennadi Kasparov
Date of graduation: May 2011
Currently at Tsinghua University, China.


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