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Update on videos of lectures and talks

Videos of talks at Fields Institute

The videos of my three talks in the distinguished lecture series at the Fields Institute are now online and can be found here.

In particular, the first talk, entitled Dan-Virgil Voiculescu: visionary operator algebraist and creator of free probability theory, was a talk for a public audience and gives not only a bit of information on Dan Voiculescu, but also a very high level idea of what free probability is all about. And it also has some movie references …

Videos of lecture series “Non-commutative distributions”

The course on “Non-commutative distributions” has now finished; all 20 lectures are online and can be found on our video platform. My hand-written notes for the classes can be found here.

Focus Program on Applications of Noncommutative Functions; Featuring a Celebration Banquet for Dan Voiculescu’s 70th Birthday

Today started the Focus Program on Applications of Noncommutative Functions at the Fields Institute in Toronto. There will be two workshops: this week on the “Developments and Technical Aspects of Free Noncommutative Functions” and next week on “Applications to Random Matrices and Free Probability of Free Noncommutative Functions”. Both workshops look interesting to me; unfortunately I will miss most of the first one as I will fly only on Wednesday to Toronto.

I will give a series of three talks on the relation between free probability and random matrices. The first talk will be quite general and is also intended for a public academic audience. Its main purpose is to celebrate the 70th birthday of Dan Voiculescu by giving an idea of Dan’s achievements and of free probability theory. The talk and the banquet will be on the very day of Dan’s birthday.