Associate Professor Pinhas Grossman

ABOUT ME

Biography

I joined the School of Mathematics at UNSW in 2013, after temporary positions at Vanderbilt University in the USA, Cardiff University in the UK, and IMPA in Brazil. My research interests are in the area of subfactors, which lies at the nexus of operator algebras, quantum topology, and representation theory.

Education

• PhD in Mathematics (UC Berkeley, 2006)
• BA (Yeshiva University, 2000)

RESEARCH

Research Grants

• ARC Discovery Grant 2014 – 2016, Symmetries of Subfactors, held jointly with Scott Morrison (ANU) and Vaughan Jones (Vanderbilt University)
• National Science Foundation Grant 2008-2011, Subfactors and Planar Algebras

TEACHING & OUTREACH

Courses I have taught at UNSW

MATH1131: Calculus

MATH1141: Algebra

SCIF1121: Professional Perspective and Practice

MATH2069: Vector Calculus

MATH3611: Higher Analysis

MATH5615: Banach and Operator Algebras

Professional affiliations and service positions

Since 2017 I have been the Honours coordinator for Pure Mathematics.

From 2013-2016 I was the organizer of the School’s Pure Mathematics Seminar.