Alessandro Vignati Curriculum Vitae Positions October 2018 - October 2021 FWO Postdoctoral Fellow - KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium October 2017- October 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow at IMJ-PRG - Institut de Mathématiques du Jussieu, Paris; funded by Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, Paris, France and PRESTIGE co-financing award Sep. 2013- June 2017 Visiting Researcher at Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sep. 2012- April 2017 PhD student and Teaching Assistant at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada March-April 2016 Postdoctoral fellowship grant to participate to Classification of operator algebras: complexity, rigidity, and dynamics, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden Supervisor Master Thesis Supervisor Education April 2017 Ph.D. in Mathematics at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Professor Ilijas Farah Dec. 2011 Master degree in Mathematics, University of Turin, Torino, Italy Combinatorial principles in set theory Professor Alessandro Andretta Dec. 2009 Bachelor degree in Mathematics, University of Turin, Torino, Italy www.automorph.net/avignati 1/5
Thesis An abstract of my thesis: Logic and C -algebras: Set Theoretical dichotomies in the theory of Continuous Quotients, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 24, Issue 2 June 2018, pp. 194-195 Full Thesis available at: arxiv:1706.06393 Publications 8. Model Theory of C -algebras, j. w. I. Farah, B. Hart, M. Lupini, L. Robert, A. Tikuisis and W. Winter, to appear in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, arxiv:1602.08072 7. On Ulam stability for some classes of C*-algebras, j.w. P. McKenney, accepted to publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh A: Mathematics, arxiv:1601.05445 6. C -algebra distance filters, j.w. T. Bice, Adv. Oper. Theory 3 (2018), no. 3, 655-681. 5. Quantifier elimination in C -algebras, j.w. C.J. Eagle, I. Farah and E. Kirchberg, International Mathematics Research Notices 24, pp. 7580-7606 (2017) 4. Nontrivial homeomorphisms of Čech-Stone remainders, Münster Journal of Mathematics, volume 10, pp. 189-200 (2017) 3. The pseudoarc is a co-existentially closed continuum, j.w. C.J. Eagle and I. Goldbring, Topology and its Applications 207, pp. 1-9, (2016) 2. Saturation and elementary equivalence of C -algebras, j.w. C. J. Eagle, Journal of Functional Analysis 269, no. 8, 2631-2664, (2015) 1. An algebra whose subalgebras are characterized by density, Journal of Symbolic Logic 80, no. 3, 1066-1074, (2015) Preprints 5. Rigidity conjectures, arxiv:1812.01306 4. Uniform Roe coronas, j.w. B. Braga and I. Farah, arxiv:1810.07789 3. Optimal transport and unitary orbits in C -algebras, j.w., B. Jacelon and K.R. Strung, arxiv:1808.03181 2. Forcing Axioms and coronas of nuclear C*-algebras, j.w. P. McKenney, arxiv:1806.09676 1. The Calkin algebra is ℵ 1 -universal, j.w. I. Farah and I. Hirshberg, arxiv:1707.01782 www.automorph.net/avignati 2/5
Awards and grants 2017-2021 FWO, Flemish Science Foundation Postdoctoral Grant Sep. 2017 2017 PRESTIGE co-financing grant award - co-funded by the European Union via the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions, (15000 Euros for research purposes) 2017 Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Postdoctoral grant Association of Symbolic Logic travel grant to attend the Workshop and Conference on Model Theory and Operator Algebra at University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA 2016-2017 Susan Mann Dissertation Scholarship, York University Award 2012-2017 York University International student grant March 2017 Association of Symbolic Logic travel grant to attend the 2017 ASL Annual Meeting in Boise, ID, USA July 2016 Association for Symbolic Logic travel grant to attend the 2016 Logic Colloquium in Leeds, UK Spring 2016 May 2016 Feb. 2016 January 2016 June 2013 June 2013 May 2013 Postdoctoral fellowship grant for a 2 months stay to participate to Classification of operator algebras: complexity, rigidity, and dynamics, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden Association for Symbolic Logic travel grant to attend the ASL 2016 Annual Meeting in Storrs, CT, USA Association for Symbolic Logic travel grant to attend the Menachem Magidor 70th Birthday Conference, Jerusalem, Israel Association for Symbolic Logic Grant for the Conference for the 70th birthday of Menachem Magidor, Jerusalem, Israel INFTY Short Visit Grant 5552 For the 6th Young Set Theory Workshop in Oropa, Italy Association for Symbolic Logic Grant for the 6th Young Set Theory Workshop in Oropa, Italy Association for Symbolic Logic Grant for the 2013 ASL meeting in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2009-2011 Borsa di Studio a collaborazione parziale / Grant for partial collaboration, University of Turin, Torino, Italy Selected invited talks October 2017 Operator Algebra seminar, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Operator Algebra seminar, Purdue University, Purdue, USA XIVe Atelier international de théorie des ensembles, CIRM, Marseille, France www.automorph.net/avignati 3/5
August 2017 Workshop and Conference on model theory and operator algebras, UCIrvine, Irvine, California, USA July 2017 IRP Operator Algebras: Dynamics and Interactions, CRM, Barcelona, Spain July 2017 March 2017 June 2016 May 2016 March 2016 Dec. 2015 July 2015 March 2015 October 2014 July 2014 June 2014 Special section: Interactions between model theory and topology, Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Montreal, QC, Canada Special section: Continuous model theory and its applications, ASL 2017 North American Winter Meeting, Boise, Idaho, USA 44th Canadian Operator Algebra Symposium (COSy), Montreal, QC, Canada Special session on Set Theory at the Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 Annual Meeting in Storrs, CT, USA Workshop of Classification and Set Theory, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Operator Algebra session, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Workshop of C*-algebras: geometry and actions, University of Analysis seminar, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Dynamics and C*-algebras: amenability and soficity, BIRS, Banff, Alberta, Canada Workshop on model theory and operator algebras, University of Workshop on C*-algebras and dynamical systems, Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Feb. 2018 October 2017 Selected Conferences, focusing programs, masterclasses and visiting Model theory and Operator algebras, BIRS, Banff, Canada Visiting the Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Visiting University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Visiting the Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Visiting Purdue University, Indiana, USA Visiting IMPAN, Warsaw, Poland XIVe Atelier international de théorie des ensembles, CIRM, Marseille, France www.automorph.net/avignati 4/5
August 2017 Workshop and Conference on model theory and operator algebras, UCIrvine, Irvine, California, USA July 2017 IRP Operator Algebras: Dynamics and Interactions, CRM, Barcelona, Spain May 2017 Fall 2016 Spring 2016 Summer 2015 Feb. 2015 October 2014 Visiting Miami University, Ohio, USA Simons Semester in Noncommutative Geometry, the next generation, IMPAN, Warsaw, Poland Focusing program on Classification of operator algebras: complexity, rigidity, and dynamics, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden Focus Programme on C*-algebras, University of Münster, Münster, Germany Visiting Miami University, Ohio, USA Dynamics and C*-algebras: amenability and soficity, BIRS, Banff, Alberta, Canada August 2014 Masterclass and conference on Classification, STructure, Amenability and Regularity, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK July 2014 Spring 2014 Sep. 2013 Fall 2012 Workshop on model theory and operator algebras, University of Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras, Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Visiting Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark Thematic program on forcing and its applications, Fields Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada www.automorph.net/avignati 5/5