Maria Grazia Viola

Associate Professor

Department: 
Mathematical Sciences
Email: 
mviola@lakeheadu.ca
Phone Number: 
+1 705-330-4008ext. 2615
Office Location: 
Orillia Campus OA3027
Office Hours: 
Tuesday 12:00 - 1:30,  Thursday 2:00-3:00, Friday 2:00 - 4:00, or by appointment
Academic Qualifications: 
  • Ph.D. University of Iowa, 2002
  • HBSc. University of Rome II, 1993
Date joined Lakehead: 
October 2008
Previous Teaching/Work: 
 
Teaching (2022-2023)
  • MATH 0210 FAO  Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists
  • MATH 0212 FAO  Quantitative Methods for Health Scientists
  • MATH 1171 FAO  Calculus I 
  • MATH 1172 WAO  Calculus II 
  • MATH 2255 FAO  Linear Algebra I
 
Work Experience
 
 

2022-present. Status-Only appointment, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto

2016 - present   Associate Professor, Lakehead University Orillia

2014 - present   Visiting researcher, Fields Institute, Toronto

2010 - 2015      Assistant Professor, Lakehead University Orillia

2008 - 2010      Assistant Professor, Limited term appointment, Lakehead University Orillia

2007 - 2008       Visiting researcher at the Fields Institute in the Operator Algebra program and Instructor at the University of Toronto Scarborough

2005 - 2007       Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University

2002 - 2005       Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University   

 

Research Interests: 

I am interested in structural properties of C∗-algebras, classification of C*-algebras, Lp operator algebras, von Neumann algebras, subfactors, free probability, planar algebras, and K-theory.

Selected Publications:

  • K. Courtney, A. Duwenig, M. Georgescu. A. an Huef, M. G. Viola, Nuclear dimension of twisted groupoid C*-algebras and the Alexandrov groupoid, submitted, arXiv:2211.00547.

  • M. S. Adamo, D. Archey, M. Forough, M. Georgescu, J. A. Jeong, K. Strung, M. G. Viola, C*-algebras associated to homeomorphisms twisted by vector bundles over finite dimensional spaces, to appear in Trans. Am. Math. Soc. (2023), arXiv:2202.10311v2

  • N. C. Phillips and M. G. Viola, K-Theory and the Universal Coefficient Theorem for Simple Separable Exact C*-Algebras Not Isomorphic to Their Opposites, to appear in the Int. Math. Res. (2023).
  • N. C. Phillips and M. G. Viola, Classification of spatial Lp  AF algebras, Int. J. Math. vol. 31 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129167X20500883
  • N. C. Phillips and M. G. Viola, A simple separable exact C*-algebra not anti-isomorphic to itself, Math. Ann. 355 (2013), 783-799.
  • K. Dykema and M. G. Viola, Non-outer conjugate Zp2 -actions on free product factors, J.           Oper. Theory 57 (2007), 267-301.

Supervision of High Qualified Personnel

Postdoctoral fellows:

2022-2024 M. Ali Asadi-Vasfi, University of Toronto, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott.

2016-2018 Bhishan Jacelon, University of Toronto, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott. 

2015-2016 Qingyun Wang, Fields Institute, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott. 

2014-2015 Kun Wang, Fields Institute, joint mentorship with Prof. G. Elliott.

Graduate Students:

2014-2017 James Lutley, Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, co-supervised with Dr. George Elliott.

Undergraduate Students:

Summer 2019 Eric Koehli, research assistant, University of Toronto.

2017-2018 Wilson Poulter, Honours thesis, Lakehead University.

Summer 2017 Eric Koehli, research assistant, Lakehead University.

Summer 2014 Vishal Malik, research assistant, Lakehead University, joint supervision with Dr. A. Van Tuyl.

2013-2014 Dennis Stauffer,  honour thesis, Lakehead University. 

Conference co-organized:

Women in Operator Algebras III, held at the Banff International Research Station, June 26-30, 2023.

Facets of Operator Algebras, CMS scientific session, CMS Winter Meeting, Toronto, December 2-5, 2022.

Advances in Operator Algebras, CMS scientific session, CMS Summer Meeting, Memorial University, June 3-6, 2022.

Women in Operator Algebras II, held at the Banff International Research Station, December 6-10, 2021. 

Quantum Groups and Quantum Information Theory, held at Herstmonceux Castle, UK,  July13-17 2015.

Outreach Activities:

Organizer of the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest at Lakehead University Orillia since 2014.

Co-organizer of the Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest at Lakehead University Thunder Bay in  2013-2014.