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

        Undergraduate Learning Seminar on Probability Topics, running in Winter Term 2012.

This term's topic is concentration on metric measure spaces. We will follow the book
                "The Concentration of Measure Phenomenon", by Michel Ledoux,
                published by the American Mathematical Society, 2001.
A copy of the book can be found on reserve in the DC Library, under call number QA273.43.L43 2001.

The seminar will meet once a week, on Tuesdays at 4 pm, in room MC 5046. The first meeting of the seminar will take place on January 24.

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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: January 2012.