Virtually polycyclic groups and their C*-algebras

Seminar series

Functional Analysis Seminar

Date

Thu, 05 Nov 2020

Time

16:00 - 16:30

Location

Virtual

Speaker

Caleb Eckhardt

Organisation

Miami University

Polycyclic groups form an interesting and well-studied class of groups that properly contain the finitely generated nilpotent groups. I will discuss the C*-algebras associated with virtually polycyclic groups, their maximal quotients and recent work with Jianchao Wu showing that they have finite nuclear dimension.

Further Information

Part of UK virtual operator algebras seminar: https://sites.google.com/view/uk-operator-algebras-seminar/home