ALGEBRA SEMINAR
DEPARTMENT OF
MATHEMATICS
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
UNIVERSITY
Organizer: Kailash C. Misra
E-mail: misra
at math dot ncsu dot edu
Fall 2002 Schedule:
September 11, Tom Lada, NCSU
"Representations of L-infinity Algebras"
September 18, Naihuan Jing, NCSU
"From
Platonic Solids to Affine Lie Algebras"
October 9, Amassa Fauntleroy, NCSU
"Free
Graded Polynomial Algebras, Unipotent Roots, and Combinatorics"
October 23, Thalia Jeffres, UNC - Chapel Hill
"Regularity of the Heat Operator on a Cone"
November 8, Haisheng Li, Rutgers University - Camden
"Vertex
Algebras and Vertex Poisson Algebras"
November 15, Yun Gao, York University, Toronto
"Algebraic K-Theory and Lie Algebras"
December 6, Edlyn Teske, University of
Waterloo, Canada
"Weak
Fields for Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
Spring 2003 Schedule:
January 28, Antun Milas, University of Arizona
"Some applications of the theory of vertex operator algebras"
4:00-5:00, HA 335
January 31, Sarah Witherspoon, Amherst College
"Cohomology in Algebra"
3:40-4:40, HA 330
February 3, Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts
"Enumerative Real Algebraic Geometry"
1:30-2:30, HA 330
February 5, Bojko Bakalov, University of California- Berkeley
"Conformal Algebras in Higher Dimensions"
1:30-2:30, HA 330
February 7, David Hemmer, University of Georgia
"Specht module filtrations for representations of the symmetric
group"
3:40-4:40, HA 330
April 11, Noriko Yui, University of Toronto
"Calabi-Yau varieties and mirror symmetry"
1:30-2:20 , HA 261
Fall 2003 Schedule:
September 3, Irina Kogan, N.C. State University
"Orbits on the space of polynomials under GL(n,C) action"
2:35-3:25, HA335
September 10, Bojko Bakalov, N.C. State University
" Introduction to Vertex Algebras and Conformal Algebras"
2:35-3:25, HA335
September 17, Bojko Bakalov, N. C. State University
"Field Algebras"
2:35-3:25, HA335
September 24, Naihuan Jing, N.C. State University
"Affine Lie algebras, McKay correspondence and their quantum
analogs"
2:35-3:25, HA335
October 15, Agnes Szanto, N.C. State University
"Subresultants and the solution of over-constrained
multivariate
polynomial systems"
2:35-3:25, HA335
October 22, Tom Lada, N.C. State University
"Symmetric Brace Algebras"
2:35-3:25, HA335
October 29, Amassa Fountleroy, N.C. State University
"Automorphisms of certain projective bundles over toric verieties"
2:35-3:25, HA335
November 5, David Eisenbud, University of California-Berkeley
"Resultants and Elimination Theory, Old and New"
(Colloquium) 4:00-5:00,
HA201
November 12, Loek Helminck, N.C. State University
"Algorithms to compute twisted involutions and their
Bruhat order"
2:35-3:25, HA335
November 21, Zviad Kharebava, N.C. State University
"Singular Cochains and Rational Homotopy Type"
3:40-4:30, HA335
December 3, Michael Singer, N. C. State University
"Inverse Problems in Galois Theory"
2:35-3:25, HA 335
Spring 2004 Schedule:
March 3, Professor Hayk Melikyan, NCCU
" Maximal
Subalgebras of Modular Simple Lie Algebras"
2:35-3:25, HA335
March 24, Seth Sullivant, UC- Berkeley
"Phylogenetic Invariants "
2:35-3:25, HA335
March 26, Professor Haisheng Li, Rutgers University-Camden
"On
certain categories of modules for affine Lie algebras"
2:35-3:25, HA 335
March 31, Professor Martin Markl, Mathematics Institute, Czech Academy
"Transfering Algebraic Structures"
2:35-3:25, HA 335
April 14, Professor Bojko Bakalov, N.C. State University
" Twisted Modules over Lattice Vertex Algebras"
2:35-3:25,
HA 335
April 22, Professor Patricia Hersh, University of Michigan
"
A GL_n(q) analogue of the partition lattice
and discrete Morse theory for posets"
2:35-3:25, HA335
Seminar Organizer: Kailash C. Misra