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2009 Fall Western Section Meeting
Riverside, CA, November 7-8, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1054

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

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Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra

• Saturday November 7, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, I
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some twisted homogeneous coordinate rings related to superpotential algebras.
    S. Paul Smith*, Dept. of Math., University of Washington
    (1054-16-260)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence for twisted homogeneous coordinate rings.
    Susan J. Sierra*, Princeton University
    Jason Bell, Simon Fraser University
    Daniel Rogalski, University of California San Diego
    (1054-16-252)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalizing Twisted Homogeneous Coordinate Rings.
    Chelsea M Walton*, University of Michigan
    (1054-16-11)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spectra of quantum Schubert cells and quantum flag varieties.
    Milen Yakimov*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1054-16-116)
• Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, II
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Enumeration of torus-invariant primitive ideals in quantum matrices.
    Jason P Bell*, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Karel Casteels, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Stephane Launois, Department of Mathematics, University of Kent
    (1054-16-199)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finding generators of $H$-prime ideals in $O_q(M_{m,n}(C))$ using graph theory.
    Karel Casteels*, Simon Fraser University
    (1054-17-198)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Frobenius-Schur indicators of representations of Hopf algebras and the trace of the antipode.
    Yevgenia Kashina, DePaul University
    M. Susan Montgomery*, University of Southern California
    Siu-hung Richard Ng, Iowa State University
    (1054-16-48)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A trace-like invariant for representations of Hopf algebras.
    Andrea Jedwab*, University of Southern California
    (1054-16-136)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of pointed Hopf algebras.
    Mitja Mastnak, Saint Mary's University
    Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
    Peter Schauenburg, U. Munchen
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M
    (1054-16-127)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, III
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Q-Commutative Power Series Rings at Roots of Unity.
    Edward S. Letzter*, Temple University
    (1054-16-143)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Goldie ranks of skew power series rings of automorphic type.
    Edward S. Letzter, Temple University
    Linhong Wang*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (1054-16-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A noncommutative completion of the prime spectrum.
    Richard Vale*, Cornell University
    (1054-16-60)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lie algebras and Lie groups over noncommutative rings.
    Arkady Berenstein*, University of oregon
    Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University
    (1054-16-104)
• Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions Between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra, IV
  Room 142, Engineering 2
  Organizers:
  Kenneth R. Goodearl, University of California Santa Barbara goodearl@math.ucsb.edu
  Daniel S. Rogalski, University of California San Diego drogalsk@math.ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Clifford algebras of ternary forms and vector bundles on cubic surfaces.
    Emre Coskun, University of Western Ontario, Canada
    Rajesh S Kulkarni*, Michigan State University
    (1054-16-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Graded Skew Clifford Algebras and their Associated Geometry.
    Thomas Cassidy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
    Michaela Vancliff*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1054-16-72)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $K_2$ algebras and $A_\infty$ structures.
    Pete Goetz*, Humboldt State University
    (1054-16-256)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Koszul property as a homeomorphism invariant and a measure of singularities.
    Brad S Shelton*, OR
    Hal Sadofsky, OR
    (1054-55-226)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometry of 'spaces' represented by triangulated categories.
    Alexander Rosenberg*, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
    (1054-18-305)

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