ALGEBRA SEMINAR 
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS 
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY



Spring 2001 Schedule.
Lectures are at 2:35 pm, Wednesdays in Harrelson Hall room 335, unless otherwise noted.

Organizors: N. Jing and W. Wang

January 24, Spring Festival

January 31, Styrkas Konstantin, Duke University (cancelled)

February 14, Gaik Melikian, North Carolina Central University
                   " Simple Exceptional Lie  Algebras of  Small Characteristics"

February 21, Ling Wu, NCSU
                  "Symmetric Spaces and classification of involutions over arbitrary field"

February 28, cancelled

March 8, Y. Hara, NCSU
                  "BRST resolution for principally graded Wakimoto modules of the \tilde{sl}(2)"

March 14, Spring Break

March 21, Brenda Burns, NCSU
                 "The Staircase Decomposition for Reductive Monoids"

March 28 (Tuesday), Zhenbo Qin, Univ. of Missouri
                 "On Hilbert schemes"

April 4, Robert Proctor, UNC
                "The Right Generalization of Young Diagrams"

April 11, No talk (Good Fri)

April 18, Kailash Misra, NCSU (cancelled)

May 5, Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University
                "From representations of quivers to quantum groups"
 

Fall 2000 Schedule.
Lectures are at 2:35 pm, Wednesdays in Harrelson Hall room 335, unless otherwise noted.

Organizors: N. Jing and W. Wang

September 6, Manfred Minimair, NCSU
        "Efficiently computing resultants of composed Laurent polynomials"

September 13, Tom Lada, NCSU
         "The Algebra of Gauge Transformations"

September 27, Yuji Hara, NCSU and Univ. of Tokyo
         "Elliptic Quantum Group and Deformed Virasoro Algebra"

October 4, Yuji Hara, NCSU and Univ. of Tokyo
          "Elliptic Quantum Group and Deformed Virasoro Algebra"

October 11, Robert Hartwig, NCSU
          "Applications of Msets to Max-algebras and Non-negative Matrices"

October 18, Fall Break

October 26, Thursday, Gail Letzter, Virginia Tech; Room: HA 119, 4:00-4:50
           "Quantum symmetric pairs"

October 31, Tuesday, Eric Sharpe, Duke University
           "Discrete torsion"

November 10, Friday, Rm HA 373, Nikolai Vavilov, Northwestern Univ.
           "Structure of Chevalley groups over commutative rings"

November 15, Maxim Vybornov, Duke University

November 22, Thanksgiving
 

Spring 2000 Schedule.

January 26, cancelled due to Inclement weather

February 2, James Zhang, MSRI and Univ. Washington
       "Homological Indentities"

February 4 Friday, Stephen Berman, University of Virginia and Univ. of Saskatchewan
       "A View of Extended Affine Lie Algebras with Some Historical Perspectives"

February 16, Chen, S.Y., Academia Sinica, Taiwan
      "Howe duality for Lie superalgebras"

February 23Konstantin Styrkas, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
      "From regular representations to vertex operator algebras and conformal field theories"

March 1, Mohan Putcha, NCSU
       "Bruhat-Chevalley order on monoids"

March 8, Weiqiang Wang, NCSU
       "Howe duality and symmetric function identities"

March 22, Naihuan Jing, NCSU
        "Twisted vertex operators and McKay correspondence"

April 4, Kwangil Koh, NCSU
        "The Geometrical Concept of a spin vector"

April 12, Tom Lada, NCSU (cancelled)

April 27, Thursday, Vybornov, Duke Univ.
        "Geometric construction of crystals"

May 1,  Mondy, Martin Markl, Czech Academy of Science (Special Seminar)
        "Ideal Perturbations" in Room 272 HA, 2:30 pm

May 3, Liz Jurisich, College of Charleston
          "An Equivalence of Categories of modules for Generalized Kac Moody algebras"
 
 
 
 

Fall 1999 Schedule.

August 16 Monday,  Thalia Jeffries, Universidad Michicaono, Mexico

August 25, Rm 377 ,  Anatoli Vlasov, Northeastern University (joint Math-Phys/Algebra seminar)

September 1,  Hoon Hong ,  N. C. State University

September 8, Observation of Labor Day

September 15, Cancelled due to Hurricane Floyd

September 22,  Weiqiang Wang,  N. C. State University

September 29,  Weiqiang Wang,  N. C. State University

October 6 ,  Vitaly Tarasov, UNC and St. Petersburg Branch of Steklov Math Institute

October 13, Observation of Fall Break

October 20 ,  K. Misra

October 27 ,  John Swallow, Davison College

November 3 ,  Amassa Fauntleroy,  N. C. State University

November 10 ,  Naihuan Jing, N. C. State University

November 17 Loek Heminck, N. C. State University

November 24, Observation of Thanksgivings

November 29 Mahesh Bhandari, Indian Institute of Technology 
 
 
 

Fall 1997 ScheduleSpring 1998 Schedule,   Fall 1998 Schedule,


Seminar Organizer:

Naihuan Jing
jing@math.ncsu.edu

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