AWM ADVANCE workshop at JMM 2018, San Diego, CA

AMS-AWM Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, I –8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center)

Organizers:

• Anne Shepler, University of North Texas
• Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A & M University
• 8:30 a.m.
  The McKay Correspondence for Semisimple Hopf Actions on Regular Graded Algebras. 
  Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
  Kenneth Chan, University of Washington, Seattle
  Chelsea Walton, Temple University
  James J. Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle
• 9:00 a.m.
  Color Lie rings and PBW deformations of skew group algebras.
  Siân Fryer*, University of California Santa Barbara
  Tina Kanstrup, University of Bonn
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
  Anne Shepler, University of North Texas
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
• 9:30 a.m.
  Preprojective algebras.
  Gordana G Todorov*, Northeastern University
  Van Nguyen, Hood College
  Shijie Zhu, Northeastern University
• 10:00 a.m.
  Spline models for algebra and geometry.
  Elizabeth Drellich*, Swarthmore College
• 10:30 a.m.
  Detecting projectivity of modules and nilpotence in cohomology for finite dimensional (graded) Hopf algebras.
  Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington
  David J. Benson, University of Aberdeen
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah
  Henning Krause, University of Bielefeld
• 11:00 a.m.
  slkslk friezes from Grassmannians.
  Karin Baur, University of Graz
  Eleonore Faber, University of Leeds
  Sira Gratz, University of Glasgow
  Khrystyna Serhiyenko*, University of California, Berkeley
  Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University
• 11:30 a.m.
  Deformations of semisimple Hopf algebras.
  Adriana Meija Castano, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
  Sonia Natale, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
  Maria Vega, United States Military Academy
  Chelsea Walton*, Temple University

AMS-AWM Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, II –2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m. (Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center)

Organizers:

• Anne Shepler, University of North Texas
• Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A & M University

2:00 p.m.
A Weyl character type formula for cluster variables in type A. 
Vyjayanthi Chari*, University of California, Riverside
Matheus Brito, Departamento de Matemática, UFPR, Curitiba – PR – Brazil

2:30 p.m.
Gerstenhaber structure of a class of special biserial algebras.
Joanna Meinel, Universität Stuttgart
Van C. Nguyen*, Hood College
Bregje Pauwels, The Australian National University
Maria Julia Redondo, Universidad Nacional del Sur
Andrea Solotar, Universidad de Buenos Aires

3:00 p.m.
On classification of modular categories by dimension.
Julia Plavnik*, Texas A&M University

3:30 p.m.
Explicit constructions of Segal-Sugawara vectors.
Natasha Rozhkovskaya*, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University

4:00 p.m.
Computing weight multiplicities.
Pamela E. Harris*, Williams College

4:30 p.m.
An elliptic Schur-Weyl construction of the rectangular representation of the DAHA.
David Jordan, University of Edinburgh
Monica Vazirani*, UC Davis