International Hopf Algebras Conference
DePaul University, February 1-3, 2002
PROGRAM

Friday, February 1, Room 8005, DePaul Center (afternoon session in Room 8204, DePaul Center)
 
10:30-11:00 Coffee/Cookies/Welcome
11:00-11:35 William Chin, DePaul University
        ``Spectra of quantized hyperalgebras''
12:00-12:35 Sarah Witherspoon, University of Massachusetts and Amherst College
        ``Clifford Correspondence for Hopf Algebras''
Lunch Break  
2:20-2:55 Miriam Cohen, Ben Gurion University, Israel
        ``Some interrelations between Hopf algebras  and their duals'' (joint with Sara Westreich)
3:20-3:55 Yuri Bahturin, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and Moscow State University
        ``Generalized Lie Solvability of Associative Algebras"
4:20-4:55 Mikhail Kotchetov, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
        ``Polynomial Identities in Hopf Algebras: Passman's Theorem and Its Dual"
5:20-5:55 Axel Schueler, University of Southern California
     ``Laplace operator and Hodge decomposition for quantum groups'' (joint with Istvan Heckenberger)

Saturday, February 2, Room 8005, DePaul Center
 
9:00-9:35 Serban Raianu, Syracuse University
        ``Semiprime Crossed Products'' (joint with Declan Quinn)
10:00-10:35 Margaret Beattie, Mount Allison University, Canada
        ``Duals of pointed Hopf algebras"
11:00-11:35 David Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago
        ``The double of the Taft Hopf Algebra as a Source of Link Invariants"(joint with Sara Westreich)
12:00-12:35 Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California
        ``Skew derivations of some finite-dimensional algebras, with applications
         to actions of u_q(sl2) and the double of the Taft Hopf algebra"(joint with H.-J. Schneider)
Lunch  
2:20-2:55 Nicolas Andruskiewitsch, University of Cordoba, Argentina
        ``A characterization of quantum groups'' (joint with H.-J. Schneider)
3:20-3:55 Richard Ng, Towson University
        ``Non-semisimple Hopf Algebras of Dimension $p^2$''
4:20-4:55 Yevgenia Kashina, Syracuse University
   ``Frobenius-Schur Indicators for Hopf Algebras'' ( joint with Geoffrey Mason and Susan Montgomery)
5:20-5:55 Yorck Sommerhaeuser, University of Munich, Germany
        ``Self-dual modules of semisimple Hopf algebras'' ( joint with Y. Kashina and Y. Zhu)

Sunday, February 3, Room 8005, DePaul Center
 
9:00-9:35 Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University
        ``The  Hopf algebra of permutations of Malvenuto and Reutenauer'' (joint with Frank Sottile)
9:55-10:30 Jean-Louis Loday, CNRS and Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (visiting Northwestern Univ.)
        ``Hopf algebras on planar trees''
10:50-11:25 James Zhang, University of Washington
        ``Gorenstein property of noetherian PI Hopf algebras''
11:45-12:20 Quanshui Wu, Math. Institute, Fudan University, China
        ``Regularity of Involutory PI Hopf Algebras''
12:40-1:15 Julia Pevtsova, Northwestern University
        ``Support varieties for Frobenius kernels''
1:35-2:10 Zoran Skoda, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-Madison
        ``Localized coinvariants"