Algebra Forum

December 4 - 5, 2008

Room 517, Meng Wah Complex, HKU

Programme and Abstract (in PDF format)

Programme                                                                                 Thursday, December 4

 

9:50

Opening Remarks

TSANG Kai-Man, Head, Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong

10:00 - 10:50

On Classification of Quantum Groups

Efim ZELMANOV, University of California at San Diego and The University of Hong Kong

Tea Break

11:10 - 12:00

Block Coverings in Finite Groups

ZHANG Jiping, Beijing University

Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:20

Infinite Dimensional Algebras

Lance SMALL, University of California, San Diego

15:30 - 16:20

Noncommutative Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity and AS-regular Algebras
WU Quanshui, Fudan University

Tea Break

16:40 - 17:30

Green's Formula with C*-action and Caldero-Keller's Formula for Cluster Algebras
XIAO Jie, Tsinghua University

18:00

Conference Dinner

 

Friday, December 5

 

10:00 - 10:50

The Unique Embedding and Tietze Transformation
YU Jie-Tai, The University of Hong Kong

Tea Break

11:10 - 12:00

Cohomology of Affine Hecke Algberas of Type A
XI Changchang, Beijing Normal University

12:10

Closing Remarks

MOK Ngaiming, Director, Institute of Mathematical Research, The University of Hong Kong

Organized by MOK Ngaiming, TSANG Kai-Man, YU Jie-Tai and Efim ZELMANOV