Introduction
The conference is in part a celebration of the past, present and future contributions to mathematics of Ken Goodearl. While the central connecting theme is noncommutative algebra, there will be coverage of the broad connections of this subject with analysis, combinatorics, geometry, mathematical physics, and topology.
Recent exciting developments and emerging future directions will be emphasized, with particular focus on representations of algebras, noncommutative algebraic geometry, homological and categorical techniques for Hopf algebras, and C*-algebras.
Features of note:
- focus on emerging topics, and on the links between them;
- opportunities for presentations from graduate students, young researchers, and mathematicians from under-represented groups.
The conference poster can be downloaded here (PDF).
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Speakers
The following speakers have confirmed their attendance:
- Gene Abrams (University of Colorado, U.S.A.)
- Pere Ara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
- Konstantin Ardakov (University of Nottingham, U.K.)
- Jason Bell (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Yuri Berest (Cornell University, U.S.A.)
- Daniel Chan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Marius Dadarlat (Purdue University, U.S.A.)
- George Elliott (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
- Colin Ingalls (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- David Jordan (University of Sheffield, U.K.)
- Uli Krähmer (University of Glasgow, U.K.)
- Rajesh Kulkarni (Michigan State University, U.S.A.)
- Stéphane Launois (University of Kent, U.K.)
- Martin Lorenz (Temple University, U.S.A.)
- Susan Montgomery (University of Southern California, U.S.A.)
- Ian Musson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A.)
- Christopher Phillips (University of Oregon, U.S.A.)
- Daniel Rogalski (University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.)
- Sue Sierra (University of Washington and Princeton University, U.S.A.)
- Agata Smoktunowicz (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
- Jan Trlifaj (Charles University, Czech Republic)
- Friedrich Wehrung (Université de Caen, France)
- Michael Wemyss (University of Oxford, U.K.)
- Sarah Witherspoon (Texas A & M University, U.S.A.)
- Quanshui Wu (Fudan University, China)
- Milen Yakimov (University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
Organizing committtee
Pere Ara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Ken Brown (University of Glasgow), Tom Lenagan (University of Edinburgh), Edward Letzter (Temple University), Steven O'Hagan (University of Glasgow), Toby Stafford (University of Manchester) and James Zhang (University of Washington)