Maria Grazia Viola
- Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2002
- HBSc. University of Rome II, 1993
- MATH 0210 FAO Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists
- MATH 0212 FAO Quantitative Methods for Health Scientists
- MATH 1171 FAO Calculus I
- MATH 1172 WAO Calculus II
- MATH 2255 FAO Linear Algebra I
2022-present. Status-Only appointment, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
2016 - present Associate Professor, Lakehead University Orillia
2014 - present Visiting researcher, Fields Institute, Toronto
2010 - 2015 Assistant Professor, Lakehead University Orillia
2008 - 2010 Assistant Professor, Limited term appointment, Lakehead University Orillia
2007 - 2008 Visiting researcher at the Fields Institute in the Operator Algebra program and Instructor at the University of Toronto Scarborough
2005 - 2007 Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University
2002 - 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University
I am interested in structural properties of C∗-algebras, classification of C*-algebras, Lp operator algebras, von Neumann algebras, subfactors, free probability, planar algebras, and K-theory.
Selected Publications:
K. Courtney, A. Duwenig, M. Georgescu. A. an Huef, M. G. Viola, Nuclear dimension of twisted groupoid C*-algebras and the Alexandrov groupoid, submitted, arXiv:2211.00547.
M. S. Adamo, D. Archey, M. Forough, M. Georgescu, J. A. Jeong, K. Strung, M. G. Viola, C*-algebras associated to homeomorphisms twisted by vector bundles over finite dimensional spaces, to appear in Trans. Am. Math. Soc. (2023), arXiv:2202.10311v2
- N. C. Phillips and M. G. Viola, K-Theory and the Universal Coefficient Theorem for Simple Separable Exact C*-Algebras Not Isomorphic to Their Opposites, to appear in the Int. Math. Res. (2023).
- N. C. Phillips and M. G. Viola, Classification of spatial Lp AF algebras, Int. J. Math. vol. 31 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129167X20500883
- N. C. Phillips and M. G. Viola, A simple separable exact C*-algebra not anti-isomorphic to itself, Math. Ann. 355 (2013), 783-799.
- K. Dykema and M. G. Viola, Non-outer conjugate Zp2 -actions on free product factors, J. Oper. Theory 57 (2007), 267-301.
Supervision of High Qualified Personnel
Postdoctoral fellows:
2022-2024 M. Ali Asadi-Vasfi, University of Toronto, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott.
2016-2018 Bhishan Jacelon, University of Toronto, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott.
2015-2016 Qingyun Wang, Fields Institute, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott.
2014-2015 Kun Wang, Fields Institute, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott.
Graduate Students:
2014-2017 James Lutley, Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, co-supervised with Dr. George Elliott.
Undergraduate Students:
Summer 2019 Eric Koehli, research assistant, University of Toronto.
2017-2018 Wilson Poulter, Honours thesis, Lakehead University.
Summer 2017 Eric Koehli, research assistant, Lakehead University.
Summer 2014 Vishal Malik, research assistant, Lakehead University, joint supervision with Dr. A. Van Tuyl.
2013-2014 Dennis Stauffer, honour thesis, Lakehead University.
Conference co-organized:
Women in Operator Algebras III, held at the Banff International Research Station, June 26-30, 2023.
Facets of Operator Algebras, CMS scientific session, CMS Winter Meeting, Toronto, December 2-5, 2022.
Advances in Operator Algebras, CMS scientific session, CMS Summer Meeting, Memorial University, June 3-6, 2022.
Women in Operator Algebras II, held at the Banff International Research Station, December 6-10, 2021.
Quantum Groups and Quantum Information Theory, held at Herstmonceux Castle, UK, July13-17 2015.
Outreach Activities:
Organizer of the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest at Lakehead University Orillia since 2014.
Co-organizer of the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in 2013-2014.