Research

My main research interests are the representation theory of groupoid C*-algebras and algebras associated with labeled graphs.

ARTICLES

Properties preserved by groupoid equivalence (with Dana Williams).
Accepted to Journal of Operator Theory.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15620

The primitive ideal space of groupoid C∗-algebras for groupoids with Abelian
isotropy
(with Dana Williams).
Indiana University Mathematics Journal 70 (2022), no.1, 359–390. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02277.pdf

Ultragraph algebras via labelled graph groupoids, with applications to generalized
uniqueness theorems
(with Gilles de Castro and Daniel Gonçalves).
Journal of Algebra 579 (2021), 456–495. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.01357.pdf

Topological full groups of ultragraph groupoids as an isomorphism invariant (with
Gilles de Castro and Daniel Gonçalves).
Münster Journal of Mathematics 14 (2021), no.1, 165–189. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.10465.pdf

Labelled space C∗-algebras as partial crossed products and a simplicity
characterization
(with Gilles de Castro).
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 491 (2020), no.1, 124-290. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.04456.pdf

GCR and CCR Steinberg algebras (with Lisa O. Clark and Benjamin Steinberg).
Canadian Journal of Mathematics 72 (2020), no.6, 1581–1606. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.06056.pdf

The orbit spaces of groupoids whose C*-algebras are CCR.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 478 (2019), no.1, 304–319. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.05623.pdf

The orbit spaces of groupoids whose C∗-algebras are GCR.
Journal of Operator Theory 80 (2018), no.1, 167–185. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05623.

PREPRINTS

Leavitt Path Algebras of Labelled Graphs (with Giuliano Boava, Gilles de Castro and
Daniel Gonçalves).
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06036.pdf.

Algebras of one-sided subshifts over arbitrary alphabets (with Giuliano Boava, Gilles de Castro and Daniel Gonçalves).

PHD THESIS

Van Wyk, D.W. 2017. The structure of GCR and CCR groupoid C*-algebras. (Ph.D. thesis, University of Otago).

CONTRIBUTIONS

Weideman, A.J. & Van Dyk, T.J. (editors) with Van Wyk, D.W., Burmeister, T., Steyn, S., Hsuan Wu, M. 2014. Academic literacy: Test your competence [Section on quantitative literacy]. Bloemfontein: ICELDA.

SELECTED TALKS

The primitive ideal space of groupoid C*-algebras for groupoids with abelian isotropy [Joint work with Dana Williams]Joint Mathematics Meeting, AMS Contributed Paper Session on Differential and Metric Geometry, Geometric Analysis, and Algebras of Operators, Virtual, April 2022.

Introductory workshop on groupoids and Steinberg algebrasCimpa School – From Dynamics to Algebra and Representation Theory and Back, Florianópolis, Brazil, February 2022.

The primitive ideal space of groupoid C*-algebras for groupoids with abelian isotropySouth African Mathematical Society annual meeting, South Africa, December 2021.

The primitive ideal space of groupoid C*-algebras for groupoids with abelian isotropy. Web-seminar on Operator Algebras, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, August 2021.

GCR groupoids C*-algebras. Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA, October 2020.

Realizing labelled space C*-algebras as partial crossed products. Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA, July 2020.

Labelled space C*-algebras as partial crossed products. IV Workshop on Dynamics, Numeration and Tilings, Florianópolis, Brazil, 29 April – 3 May, 2019.

The orbit space of groupoids whose C*-algebras GCR or CCR, ICM.  Operator Algebras Satellite Conference, Florianópolis, Brazil, July 2018.

Groupoids whose C*-algebras are CCR. University of São Paulo, Brazil, October 2018.

GCR groupoids C*-algebras. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, March 2018.

Type I groupoid C*-algebras. Australian Mathematical Society annual meeting, Canberra, Australia, December 2016.