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Sep 07, 2026 From 7th to 11th September 2026 I will be at the University of Münster to give a talk at the workshop Interactions between operator algebras, K-theory and homotopy theory.
Jul 01, 2026 Our paper Bundles of strongly self-absorbing C*-algebras with a Clifford grading was awarded the Outstanding Paper Prize of the Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (JMSJ).
May 04, 2026 From 4th to 8th May 2026 I will be at the Alfred Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald to give a talk at the conference Higher Differential Geometry.
Mar 19, 2026 From 19th to 20th March 2026 Cardiff will host the next meeting of our research network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK.
Nov 24, 2025 From 24th to 28th November I will be at the Isaac Newton Institute for the programme Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects.
Nov 21, 2025 The next meeting of the research network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will be on 21st November 2025 in Bristol.
Nov 10, 2025 On 10th November 2025 I will give a talk in the topology seminar at the University of Southampton.
Sep 29, 2025 From 29th September to 3rd October I attended the ICMS workshop Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics and gave a talk about higher twisted K-theory of Lie groups.
Sep 17, 2025 From 17th to 27th September 2025 I will be visiting Kyoto University and give a talk at the Operator Algebraists’ Symposium at the RIMS.
Sep 04, 2025 Together with Sergio Giron Pacheco (KU Leuven) and Masaki Izumi (Kyoto University) I wrote a preprint about some links between G-kernels and crossed modules. It is available here.
Jul 01, 2025 I will be at Queen’s University Belfast for the Newton programme Topological Groupoids and their C*-algebras from 1st to 25th July.
May 27, 2025 I will be in Oxford for a research visit and a seminar talk from 27th to 30th May.
May 06, 2025 It is my pleasure to announce that the Bremen-Cardiff workshop on Combinatorial Topology, Discrete Geometry and their application to Data Science will take place at Cardiff University from Tuesday, 6th May to Wednesday, 7th May 2025.
Apr 01, 2025 Together with a team in the School of Mathematics I am organising the 38th British Topology Meeting from 9th to 11th September 2025.
Mar 11, 2025 I will be at the KU Leuven from 11th to 14th March for a research visit and a seminar talk.
Mar 07, 2025 The next meeting of the research network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will take place on 7th March 2025 at the School of Mathematics in Cardiff.
Jan 15, 2025 I will speak at the online workshop Interactions between C*-algebraic KK-theory and homotopy theory.
Dec 17, 2024 I will be a speaker at the 121st meeting of the Transalpine Topology Triangle (TTT) in Sheffield on 17th December 2024.
Dec 05, 2024 I gave a talk titled Topological Invariants for G-kernels and Group Actions during the workshop New trends at the intersection of quantum information theory, quantum groups and operator algebras on 5th December 2024.
Nov 04, 2024 From 4th November to 6th December 2024 I will be at the Newton Institute for the programme Quantum information, quantum groups and operator algebras.
Oct 18, 2024 I gave a talk in the SFB seminar at the University of Regensburg on 18th October 2024.
Oct 14, 2024 I will visit the University of Regensburg from 14th to 23rd October 2024 for research.
Sep 30, 2024 I will visit my Alma Mater, the University of Göttingen, from 30th September to 13th October 2024 for research and to attend the RTG Autumn School From T-Duality via K-theory to Representation Theory.
Sep 06, 2024 The next meeting of the research network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will take place from 6th to 7th September 2024 in Southampton.
Aug 28, 2024 I will be at the 37th British Topology Meeting in Aberdeen from 28th to 30th August. This conference will be organised by a team at Cardiff in 2025.
Jul 15, 2024 My PhD student Valerio Bianchi recently gave a talk about his project in Regensburg at the conference From Analysis to Homotopy Theory.
Jun 12, 2024 From 12th to 14th of June I will be at the UK Operator Algebras conference in Newcastle.
May 18, 2024 I will visit the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) from 18th to 23rd May 2024.
May 13, 2024 Together with my PhD student, Valerio Bianchi, I am attending the conference From Analysis to Homotopy Theory from 13th to 17th May in Greifswald, Germany.
Mar 15, 2024 The next meeting of the network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will be a two-day event that will take place on 15th–16th March 2024 at Oxford University.
Nov 28, 2023 With Ulrich Bunke and Markus Land I wrote a survey about KK-theory from a homotopical point of view. The preprint on the arXiv can be found here.
Nov 24, 2023 The next meeting of the research network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will take place on Friday, 24th November 2023 in Bath.
Sep 12, 2023 I am co-organising a workshop with support from the Bremen-Cardiff collaboration fund, titled Combinatorial Topology, Discrete Geometry and their Application to Data Science. It was due to take place on 12th September 2023 at Cardiff University, but was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.
Sep 01, 2023 I will give a talk at the British Topology Meeting 2023 in September 2023.
Jul 04, 2023 Together with David Evans I finished the computation of the rational equivariant higher twisted K-groups of SU(n). The preprint can be found on the arXiv here.
Jun 26, 2023 I will be at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge from 26th June to 30th June 2023 for OAS Follow on: Operator Algebras: Subfactors and Applications.
May 19, 2023 It is my great pleasure to announce that the second meeting of the new network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will take place on Friday, 19th May 2023 in Southampton.
Mar 22, 2023 I will be in Glasgow for a seminar talk from 22nd March to 24th March 2023.
Mar 20, 2023 I will speak in the lunch-time seminar in Southampton on 20th March 2023.
Mar 03, 2023 It is my great pleasure to announce that the first meeting of the new network Operator Algebras in the South of the UK will take place on Friday, 3rd March 2023 in Cardiff.
Jul 27, 2022 I am very glad that the conference “Operator Algebras: Subfactors, K-theory, Conformal Field Theory”, which I am organising with Mathew Pugh and Gandalf Lechner, will take place at Gregynog Hall from 27th July to 2nd August.