Alex Kumjian, AB 619
	(775) 784-4615 (fax: 6378)
	Department of Mathematics
	University of Nevada (084)
	Reno, NV 89557
	e-mail: alex@unr.edu

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
                --- Ben Franklin, 1759

My field of research is a branch of Analysis called Operator Algebras. It is an intriguing mixture of Analysis and infinite dimensional Linear Algebra. It is a relatively new field that has its origins in the mathematical formalism of Quantum Mechanics. I am particularly interested in Operator Algebras that arise from Dynamical Systems. Here is some of my past work.
Here are the slides for some talks I gave last year: IHP talk that I gave at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris (February); here are two talks I gave in Lisbon (June):
Hausdorff Measures and KMS States, The Brauer Group of a Groupoid.
Here are slides from by GPOTS08 talk, "On k-morphs".