Interdisciplinary Algebra

Friday, October 28, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room C3/C4 (San Jose Convention Center)
Chairs:
Dagan Karp, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College , Robin Wilson, PhD, Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Mariel Vazquez, PhD, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University

Description: What is Algebra? Is it polynomials and polygons? Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Galois Theory, Representation Theory, Algebraic Statistics and Algebraic Combinatorics are all related in deep ways. This symposium introduces many areas of current research and discusses connections between them. Undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend!



8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM
CAT(0) Cube Complexes: From Geometric Group Theory to Moving Robots
Federico Ardila, PhD , Assistant Professor , San Francisco State University
8:55 AM
Applied Representation Theory
Rosa Orellana, PhD , Full Professor , Dartmouth College
9:15 AM
9:35 AM
The Twisted Group SL*(2,A) and How It Helps with Representation Theory
Carmen Wright, MS , Graduate Fellow, Department of Mathematics , University of Iowa