The next workshop hosted by AAC is called Atlantic TQFT Spring School 2024. It is organized by Luuk Stehouwer and Theo Johnson-Freyd from Dalhousie University. One can find the full announcement of the workshop here.

Our next event, jointly organized with the Network of Ontario Lie Theorists, will be International workshop "Nonassociative algebras and Geometry". The dates are August 12 - 16, 2019. The workshop's venue will be Bonne Bay Marine Station of Memorial University of Newfoundland in Norris Pont, NL, on the west coast of Newfoundland, within Gros Morne National Park.

The first mini course 0f 2019 "Representations of simple finite dimensional and affine Lie algebra" was delivered by Professor Vyacheslav Futorny from University of São Paulo on January 21 - 24, 2019 on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Further details can be found here.

In 2018 we organized two mini courses.

The latest one, "Functional Identities and Zero Product Determined Algebras" was given by Professor Matej Bresar from the University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor, Slovenia. It was held from September 10 - 14, 2018 on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Further details can be found here.

The earlier mini course entitled "Tensor Categories and Topological Field Theory" was given by Professor Christoph Schweigert from the University of Hamburg. It was held from March 5 to March 9, 2018 on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Further details can be found here.

 

Our most recent International Workshop, jointly organized with the Network of Ontario Lie Theorists, was "Combinatorics of Group Actions and its Applications". It was held on the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland from August 28 - September 1, 2017. The details are here.

 

One of our previous mini course was held from March 6  to March 10, 2017. Its title was "Hopf Algebras and Their Generalizations from a Categorical Point of View" and it was given by Professor Gabriella Böhm of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. See the details here.

 

One of our previous International Workshop, jointly organized with Network of Ontario Lie Theorists, was "Hopf Algebras, Algebraic Groups and Related Structures". The dates were June 13 - 17, 2016. The workshop's venue was the main campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, NL, on the east coast of Newfoundland. For full details click here.

 

The XVIII AARMS-AAC mini course was named "Nichols Algebras" and was given by Professor István Heckenberger from University of Marburg, Germany. The dates were March 14 - 18, 2016. For full details click here.

 

In August 2015, jointly with Network of Ontario Lie Theorists, we organized an International Workshop "Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras". The dates were August 17 - 21, 2015. The workshop's venue was Bonne Bay Marine Station of Memorial University of Newfoundland in Norris Pont, NL, on the west coast of Newfoundland, within Gros Morne National Park. For the details click here.

 

The XVII AAC mini-course “Branch groups: theory and practice”was given by Professor John Wilson of Oxford University, UK, on September 15 - 19, 2014. See details here.

 

On August 28 - September 1, 2014, AAC jointly with the Network of Ontario Lie Theorists have organized an International Workshop "Enveloping Algebras and Representation Theory". See details here. 

Participants of the workshop in Bay Bulls, NL

Workshop photo

 

On August 26, 2014 Professor Victor Kac of Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave a Distinguished Colloquium. The data is as follows.

Distinguished Colloquium
Tuesday, August 26, at 3 p.m.
Auditorium SN-2109
“Ramanujan mock theta function and representations of infinite-dimensional Lie superalgebras”

Abstract. In his last letter to Hardy in 1920, Ramanujan listed 17 functions, which he called "mock theta functions" since they behave like theta functions but have no modular invariance properties of theta functions. Since then there have been substantial progress in understanding of mock theta functions.
About 10 years ago, Zwegers introduced non-holomorphic corrections, which made these functions modular. In the recent work with Wakimoto, we linked mock theta functions to representation theory of affine Lie superalgebras. This in turn sheds new light on the theory of mock theta functions.

 

The XVI AAC mini-course was given by Professor Yuly Billig of Carleton University on February 20 - 22, 2014. See the web page of the mini-course here.

 

Atlantic Algebra Centre is pleased to announce the results of the Third AAC/AARMS Graduate Prizes for the graduate students in the Maritime Provinces, specializing in Algebra. The first prize worth $750 has been awarded to Ms Nursel  Erey (supervisor - Dr Sara Faridi). The second prize worth $250 has been awarded to Ms Svenja Huntemann (supervisors - Drs Sara Faridi and Richard Nowakowski). 

 

Atlantic Algebra Centre has awarded Graduate Research support in the amount of $1,000 to a student of Memorial University Mr Huadong Su doing research in Algebra under the supervision of Dr Yiqiang Zhou.

 

On June 1 - 4, 2013 Atlantic Algebra Centre held an International workshop "Combinatorial Algebra", followed by a mini course "Commutative Algebra". This was a satellite event to CMS Summer meeting in Halifax, NS. See the details here. The picture below shows some of the speakers of the workshop during their trip to Peggy's Cove.

 

 

 On October 14, 2012 Atlantic Algebra Centre organized a mini confrerence  “Combinatorial Theory of Groups and Hopf Algebras" as a follow-up to SCIENCE ATLAN-TIC Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Conference 2012 at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. The first announcement can be found following this link. The schedule of the mini conference can be found here.

From left to right: Dr. Alexander Olshanskiy (Vanderbilt), Dr. Olga Kharlampovich (CUNY), Dr. Alex Miasnikov (Stevens Institute), and AAC Director Dr. Yuri Bahturin, watching the low tide at Hopewell Rocks, NB, during the mini conference “Combinatorial Theory of Groups and Hopf Algebras".

 

The XV AAC mini course "Combinatorial Group Theory" was given by Professor Mark Sapir (Vanderbilt University, USA) on March 4 - 7, 2013.