Thomas Sinclair

RTG Assistant Adjunct Professor
UCLA Mathematics Department
Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555

Office	MS 7304
Office Hours	M 2:30-4:00, W 3:00-4:30
E-Mail	my_first_name "dot" my_last_name "at" math "dot" ucla "dot" edu
Phone	310-206-9175
FAX	310-206-6673

I received my PhD from Vanderbilt University on May 13, 2011. My advisors were Jesse Peterson and Dietmar Bisch.

My math genealogy.

Here is a current CV.

Teaching

Spring 2013, Math 3B
Winter 2013, Math 259B
Fall 2012, Math 259A

Research Interests

Operator Algebras
Geometric and Measured Group Theory

Papers

Strong solidity of group factors from lattices in SO(n,1) and SU(n,1), J. Funct. Anal. 260 (2011), no. 11, 3209-3221. article.
w/ Jesse Peterson, On cocycle superrigidity for Gaussian actions, Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems 32 (2012), 249-272. pdf. article.
w/ Ionuţ Chifan, On the structural theory of II₁ factors of negatively curved groups, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Sup. 46 (2013), 1-33. arXiv.
w/ Ionuţ Chifan and Bogdan Udrea, On the structural theory of II₁ factors of negatively curved groups, II, preprint (2011), submitted. arXiv.
w/ Isaac Goldbring and Bradd Hart, The theory of tracial von Neumann algebras does not have a model companion, accepted to J. Symbolic Logic. arXiv.

"[E]ach bringing/ From the water in which he believed and out of desire/ Things made by mid-terrestrial, mid-human/ Makers without knowing, or intending, uses."
---Wallace Stevens, from A Completely New Set of Objects

Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

April 27-28, 2013, Shanks Workshop, Vanderbilt University.
July 1-5, 2013, Von Neumann Algebras and Measurable Group Theory, K.U. Leuven.
October 26-27, 2013, West Coast Operator Algebras Seminar, UC Davis.
(*=tentative)

Links

UCLA Functional Analysis Seminar.
NCGOA Research Group at Vanderbilt University.