Changying Ding

About

I am a Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA, working with Sorin Popa and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko. I finished my Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University under Jesse Peterson in 2023. My CV is available here.

Publications/Preprints

  1. A unique Cartan subalgebra result for Bernoulli actions of weakly amenable groups, arXiv:2404.08182.
  2. Biexact von Neumann algebras (with J. Peterson), arXiv:2309.10161.
  3. First \ell^2-Betti numbers and proper proximality, arXiv:2211.05951, Advances in Mathematics.
  4. On the structure of relatively biexact group von Neumann algebras (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli), arXiv: 2211.05298, Communications in Mathematical Physics.
  5. Properly proximal von Neumann algebras (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and J. Peterson), arXiv: 2204.00517, Duke Mathematical Journal.
  6. Proper proximality for various families of groups (with S. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli), arXiv: 2107.02917, Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics.

Contact

cding@math.ucla.edu