Schedule of the Workshop

"Groups, Rings, Lie and Hopf Algebras"

At Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's,

Newfoundland, Canada, May 27 - June 1, 2001

All lectures and talks (except for Zelmanov's public lecture

on Monday, 29) will be held in Science Building,

room SN-4063 on the 4th floor

May 28, 2001

9:15 Opening of the Workshop

9:30 - 10:30 Olshanskii A.: Isoperimetric functions for groups (1st lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Jespers E.: Construction of Noetherian algebras (1st lecture)

Lunch break

2:00 - 3:00 Shestakov I.: Superalgebras of brackets and their applications (1st lecture)

3:05 - 3:35 Neher E.: Lie superalgebras graded by 3-graded root systems

Coffee break

3:55 - 4:25 Racine M.: Octonions obtained from associative algebras

4:30 - 4:50 Catoiu S.: Arithmetics of the restricted enveloping algebra of sl₂ and its quantum analogue

4:55 - 5:15 Oseledets C.: Root direct limits of Lie superalgebras

5:20 - 5:40 Bahturin Y.: Locally finite simple Lie algebras as root graded algebras

7:00 - 8:00 Public Lecture of Efim Zelmanov "Abstract Algebra in the 20th Century" in Arts and Administration Building AA-1043, followed by reception in Faculty Club

May 29, 2001

9:30 - 10:30 Zaicev M.: Polynomial identities and codimension growth (1st lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Zelmanov E.: Lie algebras over rings of differential operators (lecture)

Lunch break

2:00 - 3:00 Montgomery S.: Finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras (1st lecture)

3:05 - 3:35 Taft E.: Some new quantum groups

Coffee break

3:55 - 4:25 Beattie M.: Pointed Hopf algebras with the same associated graded Hopf algebra

4:30 - 4:50 Sommerhauser Y.: The Drinfel'd double and the modular group

4:55 - 5:15 Kashina J.: Semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension 2ⁿ

5:20 - 5:40 Ng R.: Non-commutative, non-cocommutative Hopf algebras arise from finite abelian groups

5:45 - 6:05 Mastnak M.: Hopf algebra extensions arising from semi-direct products of groups

May 30, 2001

9:30 - 10:30 Shestakov I.: Superalgebras of brackets and their applications (2nd lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Zaicev M.: Polynomial identities and codimension growth (2nd lecture)

Lunch

Whale watching tour in the afternoon

Workshop dinner at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Club

May 31, 2001

9:30 - 9:50 Brešar M.: Functional identities and Lie homomorphisms

9:55 - 10:25 Martindale W.: Polynomial-preserving maps on certain Jordan algebras

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Shestakov I.: Superalgebras of brackets and their applications (3rd lecture)

Lunch break

2:00 - 3:00 Jespers E.: Construction of Noetherian algebras (2nd lecture)

3:05 - 3:35 Montgomery S.: Finite-dimensional semisimple Hopf algebras (2nd lecture)

Coffee break

3:55 - 4:25 Ferrero M.: Unitary strongly prime rings and related radicals

4:30 - 4:50 Aguiar M.: Universality of quasisymmetric functions

4:55 - 5:15 Kamiya N.: On radicals of triple systems

5:20 - 5:40 Zhou Y.: Ikeda - Nakayama annihilator condition of modules

June 1, 2001

9:30 - 10:30 Zaicev M.: Polynomial identities and codimension growth (3rd lecture)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 Olshanskii A.: Isoperimetric functions for groups (2nd lecture)

Lunch break

2:00 - 3:00 Sehgal S.: Identities in UKG (lecture)

3:05 - 3:35 Bodi B.: Conjugacy classes of the group of units in group algebras of finite p-groups

Coffee break

3:55 - 4:25 Gonsalves J.: Unitary units in group algebras

4:30 - 4:50 Bodi V.: Torsion free groups with indecomposable holonomy group

4:55 - 5:15 Osterburg J.: Idempotents in twisted group algebras

5:20 - 5:40 Kotchetov M.: Identities in cocommutative Hopf algebras

5:40 Closing of the workshop