International Workshop
“Groups, Rings, Lie and Hopf
Algebras”
Second
Announcement
Format:
The
Workshop “Groups, Rings, Lie and Hopf Algebras” will be held in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, Canada, from May 28 to June 1, 2001, in Memorial University of
Newfoundland. The Arrival Days are May 26 and May 27. The Workshop will start
at 9 a.m. on Monday, May 28, and finish on Friday, June 1, in the
afternoon. We plan to have three
one-hour lectures a day, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, with
ample breaks for discussions. The lectures will be followed by sessions for
contributed talks. Those of you, who wish to give a talk, please send us your
title and short abstract (10 – 15 lines) before April 28. We also plan to publish the proceedings of
the Workshop.
Program Outline:
Our list of lecturers/main speakers and titles of their lectures now is as follows:
Eric
Jespers (University
of Brussels) “Construction of Noetherian algebras”
Susan
Montgomery (University
of Southern California) “Finite-dimensional
semisimple Hopf algebras”
Alexander
Ol’shanskii (Vanderbilt
University) “Isoperimetric functions for groups”
Sudarshan Sehgal (University of Alberta) Topic will be announced later
Ivan Shestakov (University of Sao Paulo) “Superalgebras of brackets and
applications”
Mikhail Zaicev (Moscow State University) “Polynomial identities and
codimension growth”
Efim Zelmanov (Yale University) Topic will be announced later.
Financial
Support:
A limited financial support from the Organizing
Committee is available only for the graduate and senior undergraduate students,
whose participation is approved by the scientific advisor. Please e-mail your
applications to Mikhail Kotchetov (mikhail@math.mun.ca) before April
28, 2001.
Deadlines:
The deadline for applications from the participants of
the Workshop is April 28. Later
applications may be declined because the number of the participants is limited
and we already have applications from North and South America, Europe and Asia!
Deadline for submitting abstracts is May 10.
The registration fee is only CAN $50, due at the time
of registration. It should be paid at the registration desk by cash or
check only. The registration fee will be waived for the students. The deadline
for submitting contributions to the Proceedings is October
1, 2001.
Lodging:
The accommodation options for the participants can be
found here.
How to Get
Here:
St.
John’s is the provincial centre of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador,
the east most in Canada. Please do not confuse it with Saint John, the largest
city of the Province of New Brunswick (this occasionally happens to our
visitors!). There are a
number of flights to St. John’s from Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa (Canada),
London (UK), New York and Boston (USA). For some schedules of Air Canada
flights for the days of May 26 and May 27, see the Workshop’s
Web Page. The St. John’s International Airport is only few miles from
the downtown. A taxi flat rate is about $20. We will also arrange to pick up
the participants from the most
“popular” flights. Please keep us informed about your plans!
Sight Seeing:
We
plan to arrange a tour for Whale Watching/Icebergs on Wednesday, May 30, in the afternoon. The price is
approximately $30. For those of you who want to take part, please indicate your
interest on the Registration Form.
Registration Form:
Can be found on the Workshop’s
Web Page.
How to contact us:
Workshop “Groups, Rings, Lie and Hopf Algebras”,
Department of Mathematics and
Statistics,
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
St. John’s, NF, A1C 5S7, Canada
Phone: (709) -737-8783/4
FAX: (709)-737-3010,
E-mail: mathstat@math.mun.ca
Organizers:
Yuri Bahturin (yuri@math.mun.ca)
Edgar Goodaire (edgar@math.mun.ca)
Mike Parmenter (michael1@math.mun.ca)
Yiqiang Zhou (zhou@math.mun.ca)