Professor Stefaan Vaes will take up the Francqui Chair 2015-2016 at the Department of Mathematics, VUB.
Stefaan Vaes is professor of mathematics at the KU Leuven and is an expert in von Neumann algebras and ergodic actions. In 2015 he obtained the prestigious Francqui prize.
Inaugural lecture: Classification of von Neumann algebras and their quantum symmetries - Monday 22 February 2016 at 18:00.

Eric Jespers, Full Professor at the Mathematics Department of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Ángel del Río, Full Professor at the Mathematics Department of Universidad de Murcia, are the co-autors of a new two-volume graduate textbook entitled 'GROUP RING - GROUPS'. With a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of describing large subgroups of the unit group of the integral group ring of a finite
group and, more generally, of the unit group of an order in a finite dimensional semisimple rational algebra.