Welcome to the new Algebra Seminar at UIUC!
Fall 2019
August 30, 2019 : Organizational meeting
September 6, 2019 : Chelsea Walton (UIUC) : Quantum Symmetry in the context of co/representation categories, introductory talk + research talk
September 13, 2019 : Jesse Huang and Tsutomu Okano : Reading Group talks
September 20, 2019 : Hongdi Huang (University of Waterloo) : Hopf Ore Extensions, research talk only (50 min)
September 27, 2019 : Anh-Tuong Nguyen and Bingyan Liu + Saaber Pourmotabbed :Reading Group talks
October 4, 2019 : Anh-Tuong Nguyen and Mingyan Simon Lin : Reading Group talks
Oct 4-6: GROW 2019 [math conference for female-identified undergraduate students]
October 11, 2019 : Eric Samperton and Johnson Tan: Reading Group talks
October 18, 2019 : James Zhang (University of Washington) : Brown-Goodearl conjecture for PI weak Hopf algebras, research talk only (50 min).
[Dinner photo]
October 25, 2019 : Xingting Wang (Howard University) : Noncommutative algebra from a geometric point of view, introductory talk + research talk.
[Research Talk Slides] [Dinner photo 1] [Dinner photo 2]
November 1, 2019 : Colleen Delaney (Indiana University) : Categorification and quantum symmetry, introductory talk + research talk
[Dinner photo]
November 8, 2019 : Cris Negron (University of North Carolina) : Cohomology for Hopf algebras and dualities, introductory talk + research talk
[Dinner photo 1] [Dinner photo 2]
Nov 9-10: QuaSy-Con [regional conference on Quantum Symmetries]
November 15, 2019 : Hongdi Huang and Harshit Yadav : Reading Group talks
November 22, 2019 : Robert Laugwitz (University of Nottingham) : A category interpolating Yetter-Drinfeld modules over symmetric groups, research talk only (50 min)
[Dinner photo 1] [Dinner photo 2]
December 6, 2019 : Hongdi Huang and Harshit Yadav : Reading Group talks
December 13, 2019 : Chelsea Walton : Reading Group talks
[End of semester surprise]
