Roland Speicher

Roland Speicher studied mathematics and physics in Saarbrücken, Freiburg and Heidelberg. He received his diploma degree in physics 1986, his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1989, and his habilitation 1994 from the University of Heidelberg. After his Heisenberg fellowship 1995–2000 he became professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Since 2010 he is professor in Saarbrücken. He was a recipient of a Premier’s Research Excellence Award from the Prime Minister of Ontario in 2000 and of the Jefferey–Williams Prize 2012 of the Canadian Mathematical Society. Prof. Speicher was invited speaker at the ICM 2014 in Seoul. In 2014 he also received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Non-commutative distributions in free probability theory”. His research centers around free probability theory and its combinatorial aspects, with applications to random matrices, statistical mechanics, and operator algebras.

• YouTube Channel of Roland Speicher
• Blog on "Free Probability Theory"
• Recorded Seminar Talks

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Recorded Lecture Series by Roland Speicher

• Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics (winter term 2020/21)
• Random Matrices (winter term 2019/20), videos on youtube (with descriptive titles)
• Non-commutative Distributions (and Operator-Valued Free Probability) (summer term 2019), videos on youtube (with descriptive titles)
• Free Probability Theory (winter term 2018/19), videos on youtube (with descriptive titles)

• Random Matrices (winter term 2019/20)
• Non-Commutative Distributions (summer term 2019)
• Free Probability Theory (winter term 2018/19)
• Von Neumann algebras, subfactors, and planar algebras (summer term 2016)