maria grazia viola

associate professor
associate professor
mviola@lakeheadu.ca
+1 705-330-4008ext. 2615
orillia campus oa3027
tuesday 12:00 - 1:30,  thursday 2:00-3:00, friday 2:00 - 4:00, or by appointment
academic qualifications: 
  • ph.d. university of iowa, 2002
  • hbsc. university of rome ii, 1993
date joined lakehead: 
october 2008
previous teaching/work: 
 
teaching (2022-2023)
  • 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
 
work experience
 
 

2022-present. status-only appointment, department of mathematics, university of toronto

2016 - present   associate professor, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 orillia

2014 - present   visiting researcher, fields institute, toronto

2010 - 2015      assistant professor, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 orillia

2008 - 2010      assistant professor, limited term appointment, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 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   

 

research interests: 

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 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 :

2014-2017 james lutley, ph.d. student at the university of toronto, co-supervised with dr. george elliott.

undergraduate 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 :

summer 2019 eric koehli, research assistant, university of toronto.

2017-2018 wilson poulter, honours thesis, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .

summer 2017 eric koehli, research assistant, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .

summer 2014 vishal malik, research assistant, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , joint supervision with dr. a. van tuyl.

2013-2014 dennis stauffer,  honour thesis, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 . 

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 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 orillia since 2014.

co-organizer of the canadian math kangaroo contest at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 thunder bay in  2013-2014.