It is 40 years since free independence was first introduced by Dan Voiculescu as a way to analyse the distribution of sums and products of operators. This idea has blossomed into a broad field of non-commutative analysis connecting operator algebras, harmonic analysis, probability, and combinatorics. Moreover, the applications of free independence have spread to many areas of science and engineering. This workshop will bring together new and established researchers from all areas of the discipline.

Plenary Speakers

• Octavio Arizmendi Echegaray, CIMAT
• Zhigang Bao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Serban Belinschi, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
• March Boedihardjo, Michigan State University
• Jacob Campbell, University of Virginia
• Mireille Capitaine, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
• Elba Garcia-Failde, IMJ-PRG
• Benjamin Hayes, University of Virginia
• David Jekel, The Fields Institute
• Todd Kemp, University of California, San Diego
• Akihiro Miyagawa, Kyoto University
• Brent Nelson, Michigan State University
• Felix Parraud, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Nikhil Srivastava, University of California, Berkeley
• Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, University of California, Berkeley
• Greg Yang, xAI
• Ping Zhong, University of Wyoming

Short Talk Speakers

• Jorge Garza Vargas, California Institute of Technology
• Evangelos Nikitopoulos, University of California, San Diego
• Jennifer Pi, University of California, Irvine
• Pei-Lun Tseng, New York University, Abu Dhabi
• Josue Vazquez-Becerra, CIMAT

You can find all talk recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLArBKNfJxuuk606sMvJx_uf_6Up_AUUxl