Recent developments in noncommutative algebra and related areas (Tentative Schedule)

March 17-19, 2018

Saturday Morning (March 17, 2018)
9:00--9:50: Dan Rogalski (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Title: Stably noetherian algebras
10:00--10:50: Chris Rogers (University of Nevada at Reno, USA)
Title: Formal deformation problems and the unicity of homotopy transfer
10:50--11:20: Break (SAV Room 156)
11:20--12:10: Frank Moore (Wake Forest University, USA)
Title: Twisted Matrix Factorizations and their Applications
Saturday Afternoon (March 17, 2018)
2:30--3:30: Student 5-minute short talks
3:30--4:00: Break (SAV Room 156)
4:00--4:25: Student 5-minute short talks
4:30--4:55: Emily Cliff (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Title: Factorization structures from the non-commutative Hilbert scheme of points
5:00--5:25: Stephan Weispfenning (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Title: Generalized Gorensteinness and Homological Determinants for Preprojective Algebras
Evening: Conference dinner organized by Jonathan Beardsley (University of Washington, USA)
Sunday Morning (March 18, 2018)
9:00--9:50: Ellen Kirkman (Wake Forest University, USA)
Title: Reflection Hopf Algebras
10:00--10:50: Ken Goodearl (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Title: Catenarity and height formulas in quantum algebras
10:50--11:20: Break (SAV Room 156)
11:20--12:10: Theo Johnson-Freyd (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada)
Title: Infinitely-categorified commutative algebra
Sunday Afternoon (March 18, 2018)
2:30--3:30: Career Panels
3:30--4:00: Break (SAV Room 156)
4:00--4:25: Xin Tang (Fayetteville State University, USA)
Title: On the endomorphisms of some non-commutative algebras
4:30--4:55: Emily Nardoni (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Title: Four-dimensional supersymmetric conformal field theories from six dimensions
5:00--5:25: Jesse Levitt (University of Southern California, USA)
Title: Applications of the walks model of the colored Jones polynomial
Evening: AWM gathering organized by Elizabeth Wicks (University of Washington, USA)
Monday Morning (March 19, 2018)
9:00--9:50: Henry Tucker (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Title: Classification and invariants for fusion categories
10:00--10:50: Chelsea Walton (Temple University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Title: Poisson geometry of PI elliptic algebras slides
10:50--11:20: Break (SAV Room 156)
11:20--12:10: Ken Brown (University of Glasgow, UK)
Title: Commutative-by-finite Hopf Algebras
Monday Afternoon (March 19, 2018)
2:30--3:30: Frank Moore (Wake Forest University, USA) and John Palmieri (University of Washington, USA)
Title: Computations in Algebra
3:30--4:00: Break (SAV Room 156)
4:00--4:25: Robert Laugwitz (Rutgers University, USA)
Title: A smaller monoidal center for quantum group representations slides
4:30--4:55: Ryo Kanda (Osaka University, Japan)
Title: Normal extensions of Artin-Schelter regular algebras and flat families of Calabi-Yau central extensions