Grazia Viola

Grazia Viola
Assistant Professor

Contact Information 

Office:    LU-0012  (Orillia Campus)
Office Hours:  Tuesdays 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
                       Wednesdays  1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
                       Thursdays  2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
                       or by appointment
Phone:    (705-330-4008  ext. 2615
Email:     mviola AT lakeheadu DOT ca

Teaching (2012-2013)

Math 1171 FAO  Calculus I
Math 0212 WAO Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
Math 1172 WAO Calculus II

Education

Ph.D.    University of Iowa, 2002
B.Sc.    University of Rome II, 1993

Work Experience

2008 - Present    Assistant Professor, Lakehead University, Orillia Campus
2007 - 2008        Visitor At Fields In the Operator Algebra Program
                         Instructor at University of Toronto, Scarborough
2005 - 2007        Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University
2002 - 2005        Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University    

Research Interests

Operator Algebras, Free Probability, Combinatorics

Selected Publications
  • R. Burstein and M.G. Viola, A unique lift of an action of the Tempreley-Lieb algebra on the ring of polynomials to a faithful  action of the Fuss Catalan algebra, preprint.
  • N. C. Phillips and M.G. Viola, A simple. separable, exact C*-algebra not anti-isomorphic to itself, submitted.
  • K. Dykema and  M. G. Viola, Non-outer conjugate   $mathbb{Z}_{p^2}$-actions on free product factors, J. Operator Theory, 57 (2007), 267-301
  • M.G. Viola, On a subfactor construction of a factor non-antiisomorphic to itself, International J. Math., 15 (2004), 833-854