Alexandru Nica

        I am a Professor in the Pure Mathematics Department of the University of Waterloo. I did my undergraduate studies in the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Bucharest, Romania, and the PhD Degree in the Mathematics Department of the University of California at Berkeley, under the supervision of Dan-Virgil Voiculescu. My research interests are in noncommutative probability and operator algebras, particularly their connections to combinatorics, classical probability, and mathematical physics. My current line of research is in an area called ``free probability.''

               

										Here is a picture of me (while teaching a course of
										introduction to free probability, in Winter Term 2011).

        Some more information about me can be found in my CV (pdf file).

        Here is my list of Publications. Most of my recent papers are posted on the arXiv database.

        Various links and announcements

        Here is a talk on the Hopf algebra approach to free multiplicative convolution and to the S-transform (pdf file) , given at the American Mathematical Society Meeting in San Diego, in January 2013. The talk presents joint work with Mitja Mastnak , and has three parts:
                A. The 1-variable framework and a relation to symmetric functions.
                B. Generalization to joint distributions of k-tuples.
                C. A problem: boxtimes-convolution powers for k-tuples?

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• Postal address:
  Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
  200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
• Office phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 35570
• Fax: (519) 725-0160
• Email: anica@math.uwaterloo.ca

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Last modified: February 2013.