AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, May 11, 2008 00:21:07

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2008 Spring Western Section Meeting
Claremont, CA, May 3-4, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1039

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups

• Saturday May 3, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, I
  Davidson Lecture Hall, Adams Hall
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Gizem.Karaali@pomona.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
  Serban Raianu, California State University Dominguez Hills sraianu@csudh.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized quantum doubles with projection.
    Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison University
    Daniel Bulacu, University of Bucharest
    (1039-16-119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Burnside's Theorem for Finite Quantum Groups.
    Jorg Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
    (1039-16-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ideals of the enveloping algebra $U(sl_3)$.
    Stefan Catoiu*, DePaul University
    (1039-16-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Representation theory of liftings of quantum planes.
    William Chin*, DePaul University
    Leonid Krop, DePaul University
    (1039-16-141)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representations of liftings of quantum linear spaces.
    Leonid Krop*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
    (1039-16-100)
• Saturday May 3, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, II
  Davidson Lecture Hall, Adams Hall
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Gizem.Karaali@pomona.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
  Serban Raianu, California State University Dominguez Hills sraianu@csudh.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An indicator-type invariant for non semisimple Hopf algebras.
    Andrea Jedwab*, University of Southern California
    (1039-16-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The theory of integrals: from compact groups to Hopf algebras and coalgebras.
    Miodrag Cristian Iovanov*, SUNY @ Buffalo, USA & University of Bufharest, ROMANIA
    (1039-16-152)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension $p^n$ which fit into cocentral abelian extensions.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1039-16-150)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The sum of a finite group of weights of a Hopf algebra.
    Apoorva Khare*, University of California at Riverside (Department of Mathematics)
    (1039-16-111)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Hopf symbol.
    Yorck Sommerh\"auser*, University of South Alabama
    (1039-16-74)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Generalized Lie algebras.
    Mikhail V. Kochetov*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1039-17-161)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, III
  Davidson Lecture Hall, Adams Hall
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Gizem.Karaali@pomona.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
  Serban Raianu, California State University Dominguez Hills sraianu@csudh.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Root system and Weyl grpupoid of Nichols algebras.
    Hans-J\"urgen Schneider*, Mathematisches Institut, LMU M\"unchen, Germany
    Istvan Heckenberger, Mathematisches Institut, LMU M\"unchen, Mathematisches Institut, Universit\"at Leipzig, Germany
    (1039-16-127)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pseudosymmetric braidings and Yetter-Drinfeld modules.
    Florin Panaite, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
    Mihai D. Staic*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Freddy Van Oystaeyen, University of Antwerp
    (1039-16-33)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On finite braid representations.
    Imre Tuba*, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley
    (1039-81-176)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The half twist in ribbon categories.
    Peter Tingley*, University of California, Berkeley
    Snyder Noah, University of California, Berkeley
    (1039-17-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On deformations of graded Hopf algebras.
    Mitja Mastnak*, University of Waterloo
    (1039-17-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of pointed Hopf algebras.
    Mitja Mastnak, University of Waterloo
    Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
    Peter Schauenburg, Universitaet Muenchen
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A&M University
    (1039-18-80)
• Sunday May 4, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Quantum Groups, IV
  Davidson Lecture Hall, Adams Hall
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College Gizem.Karaali@pomona.edu
  M. Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California smontgom@math.usc.edu
  Serban Raianu, California State University Dominguez Hills sraianu@csudh.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Calogero-Moser spaces, representations of rational Cherednik algebras, and the Shapiro Conjecture.
    Iain Gordon, Edinburgh University
    Emil Horozov, Sofia University
    Milen Yakimov*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1039-05-172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The boson-fermion correspondence and one-sided quantum groups.
    Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University
    (1039-16-36)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lie bialgebras and Quantum Symmetric Algebras.
    Sebastian Zwicknagl*, University of California, Riverside
    (1039-17-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebra structures in nonlinear control systems.
    Matthias Kawski*, Arizona State University
    (1039-93-177)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion

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