Conferences

2019

• Oberwolfach Miniworkshop 1941a Operator algebraic quantum groups
  Oberwolfach, Germany
  October 6 - 12, 2019
  Organizer, together with Michael Brannan, Martijn Caspers and Anna Wysoczanska-Kula

   

• DMV-Jahrestagung 2019, Mini-Symposium Computeralgebra
  Karlsruhe, Germany
  23-26 September, 2019
  Talk: Representation categories of quantum groups and computational approaches

   

• 3rd annual meeting SFB-TRR 195
  Saarbrücken, Germany
  September 9 - 13, 2019
  Talk: Quantum symmetries and computations

   

• Quantum groups and their analysis
  UiO University of Oslo, Norway
  Summer school: July 29 - August 2, 2019
  Workshop: August 5 - 9, 2019
  Organizer, together with Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard and Makoto Yamashita

   

• Oberseminar Mathematische Logik
  University of Bonn, Germany
  June 19, 2019
  Talk: Forcing in operator algebras

   

• A.RT-Seminar (Algebra & Representation Theory)
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  June 17, 2019
  Talk: How to describe representation categories of some linear groups and some quantum groups

   

• Ergodic Theorems
  Workshop of the 22nd Internetseminar (see also our local edition)
  Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
  June 10 - 16, 2019
  Participation as coordinator of project 13: Noncommutative ergodic theorems

   

• Journées Thématiques : Cohomology of compact quantum groups and related topics
  Besancon, France
  March 21 - 22, 2019
  Talk: Unitary half-liberations

   

• New developments in free probability and applications
  Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal, Canada
  March 4 - 15, 2019
  Talk: News from easy and non-easy quantum groups

   

• Retreat SFB-TRR 195
  Bad Münster am Stein, Germany
  February 18 - 21, 2019

   

• Séminaire Matrices et graphes aléatoires (MEGA)
  Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
  February 8, 2019
  Talk: Quantum symmetries of finite graphs and of noncommutative notions of independence

   

• Geometry Seminar
  Dresden, Germany
  January 15, 2019
  Talk: Quantum symmetries of finite graphs

• Oberwolfach Workshop 1849 Free Probability Theory
  Oberwolfach, Germany
  December 3 - 7, 2018
  Talk: Quantum groups by example

   

• Cohomology of quantum groups and quantum automorphism groups of finite graphs
  Saarbrücken, Germany
  October 8 - 12, 2018
  Organizer, together with Simon Schmidt

   

• Second annual meeting of the DFG collaborative research center SFB-TRR 195
  Tübingen, Germany
  September 24 - 28, 2018

   

• Quantum homogeneous spaces
  International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK
  June 11 - 15, 2018
  Talk: Quantum spaces arising from partitions of sets

   

• NCGOA 2018: C*-algebras and Dynamics
  Münster, Germany
  May 14 - 19, 2018
  Talk: Quantum symmetries of graph C*-algebras (PDF)

   

• Oberwolfach Workshop 1819 Interactions between operator space theory
  and quantum probability with applications to quantum information
  Oberwolfach, Germany
  May 6 - 12, 2018
  Talk: Quantum automorphism groups of graphs

   

• 50th Anniversary meeting of the North British Functional Analysis Seminar
  Edinburgh, UK
  April 12 - 14, 2018
  Talk: Quantum groups by example

   

• Lancaster Analysis Days 2018
  Lancaster, UK
  April 10 - 11, 2018
  Talk: C*-algebras and quantum spaces arising from partitions (PDF)

   

• GDMV 2018 - Section Functional Analysis
  Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society (DMV)
  Paderborn, Germany
  March 5 - 9, 2018
  Talk: Quantum symmetry - basic idea and concrete examples

   

• Workshop tensor categories, Hopf algebras and quantum groups
  supported by the SFB-TRR 195
  Marburg, Germany
  January 22 - 26, 2018
  Organizer, together with Istvan Heckenberger and Sonia Natale

• Introduction to computer algebra systems
  Mini-workshop
  Mini-workshop, part of the graduate programme of the SFB-TRR 195
  Saarbrücken, Germany
  November 28 - 30, 2017
  Organizer

   

• First annual meeting of the DFG collaborative research center SFB-TRR 195
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  September 25 - 28, 2017
  Talk: Some computational problems when working on compact quantum groups

   

• Summer school on Mathematical aspects of quantum information
  Institut des Etudes Scientiques de Cargese, Corsica
  September 4 - 8, 2017
  Lecture: Introduction to free probability
  Slides:   Lecture 1: Free Probability   Lecture 2: Quantum Groups   Lecture 3: Links - Part  1  2  3  4

   

• Joint Seminar on Algebra and Analysis
  Hannover, Germany
  July 6, 2017
  Seminar talk: Quantum symmetry, C*-algebras and combinatorics

   

• Operator algebras seminar
  KU Leuven, Belgium
  Feburary 10, 2017
  Seminar talk: Quantum groups based on spatial partitions

   

• Analytic versus Combinatorial in Free Probability
  BIRS workshop
  Banff, Canada
  December 4 - December 9, 2016
  Talk: Quantum groups versus combinatorics in free probabilityVideo of the talk

   

• Compact Quantum Groups
  Satellite event of the 7th European Congress of Mathematics (July 18 - 22, 2016, Berlin, Germany)
  Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany
  July 11 - 15, 2016
  Organizer, together with Uwe Franz, Malte Gerhold and Adam Skalski

   

• Quantum groups: geometry, representations, and beyond
  Oslo, Norway
  May 9 - 13, 2016
  Talk: Quantum groups with partial commutation relations

   

• Micro workshop on SU_q(3)
  Saarbrücken
  Jan 18 - 22, 2016
  Organizer

• Analysis seminar
  Wroclaw, Poland
  October 15, 2015
  Seminar talk: From Woronowicz's Tannaka-Krein result to examples of combinatorial quantum groups

   

• Noncommutative Geometry seminar
  IMPAN, Warsawa, Poland
  October 12, 2015
  Seminar talk: From Woronowicz's Tannaka-Krein result to examples of combinatorial quantum groups

   

• Operator algebras seminar
  KU Leuven, Belgium
  October 2, 2015
  Seminar talk: From combinatorics to (easy) quantum groups and more

   

• George Boole Mathematical Sciences Conference
  Theme 8: Quantum Probabilistic Symmetries & Quantized Boolean Algebras
  Cork, Ireland
  August 17 - 28, 2015
  Talk: Unitary easy quantum groups

   

• Quantum Groups and Quantum Information Theory
  Workshop funded by the Fields Institute, the London Mathematical Society, the ERC Advanced
  Grant held by Roland Speicher, and the ERC Starting grant held by Matthias Christandl
  (see also page 15 and 16 in the Fields report)
  Herstmonceux, UK
  July 13 - 17, 2015
  Organizer, together with Benoit Collins, James Mingo, Ashley Montanaro and Maria Grazia Viola

   

• Oberwolfach Workshop 1524 Free Probability
  Oberwolfach, Germany
  June 7 - 13, 2015

   

• Analysis seminar
  Aberdeen, UK
  March 30, 2015
  Seminar talk: Quantum groups meet free probability

   

• Analysis and probability seminar
  Lancaster, UK
  March 25, 2015
  Seminar talk: Quantum groups meet free probability

   

• Mathematical physics seminar
  Cardiff, UK
  March 19, 2015
  Seminar talk: Quantum groups meet free probability

   

• Algebraic and Analytic Aspects of Quantum Levy Processes
  (see also here)
  Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Germany
  March 9 - 13, 2015
  Talk: Easy quantum groups go unitary - how combinatorics provides an easy access to quantum groups

   

• Analysis seminar
  Glasgow, UK
  March 4, 2015
  Seminar talk: Quantum groups meet free probability

   

• Lecture series on (easy) quantum groups
  Lecturer for eight lectures on quantum groups
  IMSc Chennai, India
  January 5 - 24, 2015
  Playlist of the lectures on YouTube
  Lecture Notes of the Chennai lectures (published in 2017)

• Free Probability and Random Matrices
  Bielefeld, Germany
  September 22 - 25, 2014
  Talk: Quantum Groups in Free Probability

   

• IWOTA 2014
  International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications
  yearly conference, this time held in Amsterdam, Netherlands
  July 14 - 18, 2014
  Organizer of the Special Session on Free probability and operator theory,
  together with Serban Belinschi and Roland Speicher

   

• Quantum Symmetries in Free Probability
  Mini-workshop on easy quantum groups and other symmetries in free probability
  Saarbrücken, Germany
  March 31 - April 4, 2014
  Organizer, together with Roland Speicher
  Talk: Partitions and quantum groups

• Masterclass on Free Probability and Operator Algebras
  Münster, Germany
  September 2 - 6, 2013
  Organizer, together with Nicolai Stammeier
  Lecture: Easy quantum groups

   

• Focus Program on Noncommutative Distributions in Free Probability Theory
  Focus program by the Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
  July 2013
  Talk: Partitions and quantum groups
         see also the video archive of the Fields Institute
  Lecture (in the inter-workshop program): Quantum groups and their relation with free probability
         see also the video archive of the Fields Institute

   

• Operator algebras seminar
  KU Leuven, Belgium
  March 15, 2013
  Seminar talk: Easy quantum groups - a combinatorial class of quantum groups

   

• PLLUS Workshop
  Meeting of the probability groups of four universities:
  Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, University of Luxembourg,
  Universite de Lorraine, Universität des Saarlandes
  third edition held in Saarbrücken
  Febr 21 - 22, 2013
  Local organizer, together with Roland Speicher

• Arbre de Noel
  Annual Christmas Conference of the Non-Commutative Geometry GDR
  Universite de Lorraine, Metz, France
  December 6 - 8, 2012
  Talk: Easy quantum groups - a combinatorial class of quantum groups

   

• Séminaire d'analyse fonctionelle
  Besançon, France
  27 November, 2012
  Seminar talk: Easy quantum groups - a combinatorial class of quantum groups

   

• Oberwolfach Workshop 1244
  C*-Algebras, Dynamics, and Classification
  Oberwolfach, Germany
  October 28 - November 3, 2012
  Talk: The classification of easy quantum groups is difficult

   

• Minisymposium on Free Probability and Random Matrices
  (part of the DMV Annual Meeting 2012)
  Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society
  Saarbrücken, Germany
  September 17 - 20, 2012
  Local organizer, together with Roland Speicher
  Talk (Section Functional analysis): C*-algebras generated by isometries with twisted commutation relations

   

• Canadian Operator Symposium 2012
  Conference at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
  May 21 - 25, 2012
  Talk: C*-algebras generated by isometries with twisted commutation relations

   

• Masterclass on quantum groups
  University of Copenhagen
  March 5 - 9, 2012
  Talk: On the classification of easy quantum groups

   

• PLLUS Workshop
  Meeting of the probability groups of four universities:
  Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, University of Luxembourg,
  University Nancy 1, Universität des Saarlandes
  second edition held in Luxemburg
  March 1 - 2, 2012

• Non-commutative harmonic analysis
  14th Workshop at Bedlewo, Poland
  Sept 25 - Oct 1, 2011
  Talk: Easy quantum groups (joint with Roland Speicher)

   

• PLLUS Workshop
  Meeting of the probability groups of four universities:
  Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, University of Luxembourg,
  University Nancy 1, Universität des Saarlandes
  first edition held in Kaiserslautern
  Febr 10 - 11, 2011

   

• Bialgebras in Free Probability
  Program at Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna
  Febr 1 - Apr 22, 2011

Oberwolfach Workshop 1010
C*-Algebras
Oberwolfach, Germany
March 7 - 13, 2010
Reporter (for the Oberwolfach Report 13/2010)

• Masterclass on the classification of C*-algebras
  University of Copenhagen
  November 16 - 27, 2009
  Talk: Twists of isometries

   

• Focused semester on KK-theory and its applications
  Münster, Germany
  May 4 - July 24, 2009
  Talk: Twists of isometries