Recorded 28 February 2025. Jorge Garza Vargas of the California Institute of Technology presents "A new approach to strong convergence" at IPAM's Free Entropy Theory and Random Matrices Workshop. Abstract: In this talk I will discuss in detail some of the steps used in a new method for establishing strong convergence, as well as specific new instances of strong convergence that are of relevance in the context of operator algebras and free probability. This is joint work with Chi-Fang Chen, Joel Tropp, and Ramon van Handel. Learn more online at: https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/workshops/free-entropy-theory-and-random-matrices/