Sunder's Page This is how I look (during my happier moments):

  • Satellite Conference on Operator Algebras

  • Instructional workshop on Free Probability

    Here is an announcement of a past

  • Workshop on von Neumann algebras, Ergodic theory and Geometric Group theory

    Here are the pdf files of some talks I have given at assorted places:

    1. Planar algebras and 1+1-dimensional TQFTs (lectures given at UBC, Vancouver in September 2006)
    2. Hopf C^*-algebras and their quantum doubles - from the point of view of subfactors (lecture given at Max-Planck Institut in Bonn in August 2007)
    3. $II_1$ factors and Ergodic Theory (lecture given at ISI, Bangalore in February 2008)
    4. Non-crossing partition and 2-cabled Temperley-Lieb planar algebras (lecture given at BIRS, Banff in March 2008)
    5. von Neumann algebras and free probability (lecture given at the Ramanujan Math. Society at Bangalore in May 2009)
    6. Catalan numbers (lecture given at CESCI, Madurai to school students on August 25, 2009.)
    7. Free probability: classical and free CLTs (lecture given at ISI, Bengaluru in November 2009)
    8. On the GJS construction for graphs: I. Presentation of two categories} (first of two-part lecture given along with Vijay Kodiyalam at Vanderbilt University in May 2010)
    And here are some talks I have given in Chennai:
    1. Temperley-Lieb algebras and non-crossing partitions (lecture given at the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics)
    2. When is a knot not the unknot? (lecture given at IMSc)
    3. Braids (lecture given at Ethiraj College)
    4. The Perron Frobenius Theorem (lecture given at Chennai Mathematical Institute)
    5. Transfinite considerations (lecture given to finishing school students at IIT, Madras)

    Here are the pdf files of a course of lectures I gave (at IIT, Kanpur, ISI, Bangalore and at IISc, Bangalore during 2008-'09) as part of the "Panorama of Mathematics" series organised by the National Board for Higher Mathematics. The course was titled "Operator algebras - Stage for non-commutativity", and consisted of five lectures, as follows:

    1. $C^*$-algebras: the Gelfand Naimark Theorems
    2. K-theory of $C^*$-algebras
    3. von Neumann algebras
    4. $II_1$ factors and subfactors
    5. The Jones polynomial invariant of knots

    Here are the pdf files of a course of lectures I gave at IIT, Bombay, in April 2007, on "Temperley-Lieb algebras"

    1. Temperley-Lieb algebras
    2. Wenzl's theorem
    3. von Neumann algebras, II_1 factors and their subfactors
    4. The standard invariant of a subfactor

  • To view a lecture I gave at IIT Bombay on Paul Halmos, click here for the first part, and here for the second part.

    Here are the pdf files of a course of lectures I gave on von Neumann algebras at IISc, Bangalore in March 2006.

    Here is an announcement of some lectures some of us gave to beginning undergraduate students in the Chennai area:

  • Spirit of Enquiry Lectures in Mathematics

    More material on the linear algebra course which I taught.

  • To see a `.pdf' version of my book Functional Analysis: Spectral Theory, click here .

    Research Interests

    I am currently interested in subfactor planar algebras.

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    Personal Information: Address (Residence): E1, Block III, Shivani Apartments; 40, East Coast Road; Thiruvanmiyur; Madras 600 041, India PHONE(IMSc): (044) 2254 3210,2254 3100 PHONE(Home) : (044) 2451 6082 FAX(IMSc) : (044) 2254 1586 TELEGRAMS : MATSCIENCE, MADRAS 600 113 E-MAIL : sunder@imsc.res.in

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