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PMATH 822Topics in Operator Theory

Level
Graduate
Faculty
Mathematics
Last listed
Spring 2014

No longer offered. It’s in the archived Graduate Calendars from Fall 2006 (the oldest one online) to Spring 2014.

Notes, as last listed

Department Consent Required

1 Approximate Operator Theory

2 von Neumann Algebras

3 Simultaneous Triangularization

4 Operator Spaces

5 Von Neumann algebras & noncomm

6 Nonself-adj. Operator Algebras

7 Intro. to Operator Algebras

8 Introduction to K-theory

9 Free Probability

10 Quantum Groups

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Winter 2014

What is grad school exactly? :/ 17 points, 31 comments

“I just finished up my 3A term and am heading into a co-op work term. People keep asking me if I'm thinking of applying for my masters/grad school and I think I may want to get a masters but don't …”

u/scasagrande: “Hell. Its this thing you do where you constantly ask yourself "why am I doing this?" the entire way. Only go to grad school if you genuinely absolutely love what you are doing in an academic setting. …”

[deleted]: “Heh. PMATH 822?”

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