Welcome to the website of Andreas Nęs (Naes) Aaserud!
This is the website of Andreas Naes Aaserud. I am a second year student in the math PhD program at UCLA. My main interest is analysis; more specifically, functional analysis and operator algebras. I passed the analysis qualifying exam (qual) in Spring 2012 and the algebra qual in Fall 2012. My advisor is Professor Sorin Popa.
I was a TA for the classes 31A and 246A in Fall 2012 and again for 31A in Winter 2013.
You can see my CV (and contact information) here
and a list of my previously taken courses at the University of Copenhagen
here, and here's a list of the courses I have taken at UCLA.
Here are links to presentations I did while at the University of Copenhagen: The first one is on
Schoenberg's theorem while the second one is on Kirchberg's theorem. You can also find the slides from the defense of my Master thesis (called the Speciale in Danish) as well as a project on the theorem of highest weight (in the representation theory of Lie algebras and groups).
Since coming to UCLA, I have given a few presentations in the Student Operator Algebras seminar (organized by Ben Hayes and Paul Skoufranis) as well as presentations for 290D (spring 2012), 259B (winter 2013), and 213A (winter 2013) on the general nonstandard hull construction, Popa's proof of Connes' theorem (together with Alin Galatan), and geometric group theory, respectively.
Here are some of my personal notes on various topics. This is very much a work in progress. I do not guarantee an absence of errors, and corrections are much appreciated!
Here is a link to some very useful lecture notes on II1-factors by Dr. Cyril Houdayer (from 2011).
(Last updated: 20 March 2013.)