Vern Paulsen

Professor Vern Paulsen is affiliated with the Department of Pure Mathematics and the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on Operator Algebras, Operator Theory, and their applications to Quantum Information Theory (QIT), including topics like Frame Theory, Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces, and Quantum Computation.

• Co-editor of The Functional Analysis of Quantum Information Theory (2014) and author of the textbook An Introduction to the Theory of Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (2016).
• Recent publications explore operator systems, quantum games, and entanglement, with applications to Connes' Embedding Problem and Kadison-Singer Theory.
• He has delivered invited talks at institutions such as BIRS, Vanderbilt University, and the Institut Henri Poincaré, discussing quantum probabilities, synchronous games, and operator systems.