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Workshop on Computational Algebraic Analysis

January 5-7, 2000

• Toshinori Oaku Free resolutions in algorithms for D-modules
• Toby Stafford Invariant holonomic systems on reductive Lie algebras
• Carlos Berenstein An effective Nullstellensatz in arbitrary Characteristic
• I-Chiau Huang A concrete realization of the Bott formula
• Harry Tsai Computation of homomorphisms between holonomic D-modules
• Anton Leykin On computing Bernstein-Sato polynomials.
• Michel Granger The standard fan of an analytic D-module
• Alicia Dickenstein Rational hypergeometric functions
• Niky Kamran Non-linear differential operators with invariant subspaces of analytic functions and separation of variables
• Timur Sadykov Horn system of partial differential equations and series of hypergeometric type.
• Fumitsuna Maruyama The F4 algorithm in the Weyl algebra.
• Tewodros Amdeberhan WZ and q-WZ Cohomology: from hard core to Computational
• Frederic Chyzak Algorithmic Proof of Combinatorial Identities of Holonomic Type
• Robin Pemantle Extracting coefficients of meromorphic functions of several variables
• Greg Smith Irreducible components of characteristic varieties
• Bruno Salvy Computation of Convolution Integrals
• Andrei Gabrielov Rational functions with real critical points, real Schubert calculus, and a conjecture of Shapiro and Shapiro
• Jose Maria Ucha On AnnD (1/f) and some D-modules of dimension 2
• Mikael Passare Multiple Laurent series and amoebas

Combinatorial Algebra

January 10-14, 2000

• Charles Leedham-Green On the Classification of p-Groups and Pro-p Groups
• Michael Newman Lie algebras, p-groups and computers
• Vladislav Kharchenko A Combinatorial Approach to Quantizations of Lie Algebras
• Antonio Giambruno On Minimal Varieties of Associative Algebras and Exponential Growth
• Victor Petrogradsky The Hierarchies of Growth and Generating Functions for Lie Algebras
• Bernd Sturmfels Noncommutative Grobner Bases for Commutative Algebras
• Kyu-Hwan Lee Grobner-Shirshov Basis Theory for Irreducible sl_[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "n" hasn't been defined.] -Modules
• Leonid Bokut Grobner-Shirshov Bases and the Composition Diamond Lemma for Associative Conformal Algebras
• Rostislav Grigorchuk The Theory and Applications of Branch Groups
• Victor Ufnarovski Noncommutative Computer Algebra - What Can Be Done?
• Uzi Vishne Primitive Algebras with Arbitrary GK-dimension
• Victor Kac Integrable Representations of Affine Superalgebras and Appel's Function
• Yiftach Barnea Representations of Free Pro-p Groups
• Alexander Retakh Simple Conformal Algebras of Finite Growth
• Chongying Dong Vertex Operator Algebras, Quantum Doubles, and Dual Pairs
• Elena Poletaeva Superconformal Algebras, Semi-infinite Cohomology, and Lie Superalgebrasof the Hodge Theory
• Michael Roitman Universal Constructions in the Theory of Conformal and Vertex Algebras
• Vladimir Shpilrain Measuring Sets in a Free Group
• Olivier Mathieu Classification of Weight Modules
• Pavel Shumyatsky A Verbal Version of the Restricted Burnside Problem
• Rosa Orellana q-Centralizer Algebras for Spin Groups
• Dmitri Rumymin Amitsur-Levitski Theorem and Reduced Enveloping Algebras
• Isaiah Kantor A Vector Field Formula for the Lie Algebra of a Homogeneous Space
• Maria Gorelik On Theorems of Kostant and Duflo for Lie Superalgebras
• Ana Cristina Vieira Identities in the Lower Central Series of the Gupta-Sidki 3-Group and theIterated Wreath Product of Z_p
• Martin Liebeck Powers of Classes in Simple Groups and Applications
• Benjamin Klopsch Pro-p Groups of Linear Subgroup Growth
• Jie-Tai Yu Some Remarks on Nagata's Problem
• Vera Serganova On Weight Representations of Lie Algebras and Generalized Harish-Chandra Modules
• Ivan Shestakov Speciality of Lie-Jordan Algebras
• Igor Pak Generating Random Group Elements
• Yuri Bahturin Identities of Graded Algebras

Mathematics of Quantum Computation

February 7-11, 2000

• Richard Jozsa Quantum Information and Compression
• Andrew Yao Quantum Protocols
• Sumit Daftuar How many dimensions are needed for catalysts of entanglement transformations?
• Ashwin Nayak Holevo's theorem and its implications for quantum communication and computation
• Umesh Vazirani Fourier Transforms, Quantum Algorithms, and Complexity
• Michael Freedman A topological modular functor which is universal for quantum computation
• Robert Solovay Lie Groups and Quantum Circuits
• Zhenghan Wang A modular functor which is universal for quantum computation
• Lisa Hales Fourier Sampling Arbitrary Periodic Functions
• Samuel Lomonaco The Non-Abelian Fourier Transform and Quantum Computation
• Daniel Gottesman Group Theory and Quantum Error Correction
• Dorit Aharonov Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing
• Daniel Lidar Universal Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation On Decoherence-Free Subspaces
• Miklos Santha Self-Testing of Universal and Fault-Tolerant Sets of Quantum Gates
• Andris Ambainis Quantum lower bounds by quantum arguments
• Mary Beth Ruskai Minimal Entropy of States Emerging from Noisy Channels
• Nolan Wallach Extrema for Entropy of n-qubit States and Quantum Error Correcting Codes
• Isaac Chuang Quantum Computers: Physical Implementation
• Timothy Havel Geometric Algebra Methods for Quantum Information Processing
• Leonard Schulman Molecular Scale Heat Engines and Scalable Quantum Computation
• Gilles Brassard Trading Entanglement for Communication
• Alexi Kitaev Fermionic Quantum Computation

Interactions between Algebraic Geometry and Noncommutative Algebra

February 14-25, 2000

• Hanspeter Kraft Computational Invariant Theory: A survey and some new developments
• Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann Geometry of chain complexes and outer automorphisms under derived equivalence
• Mikhail Kapranov Noncommutative neighborhoods and noncommutative Fourier transform
• Victor Ginzburg Noncommutative Geometry and Calogero-Moser space
• Tim Hodges Degeneration of R-matrices
• Georgia Benkart Down-up Algebras and Some Generalizations
• William Crawley-Boevey Singularities arising from quivers
• Ed Letzter Is there a computational noncommutative algebraic geometry?
• Christine Riedtmann Degenerations of modules
• James Zhang Some applications of dualizing complexes
• Iain Gordon Blocks of enveloping algebras in positive characteristic and related algebras
• Rajesh Kulkarni On the Clifford Algebra of a Binary Form
• Lutz Hille Toric Quiver Varieties
• Aidan Schofield Division algebras and moduli spaces
• Jerzy Weyman Quiver representations and Invariant Theory
• Andrzej Skowronski Tame algebras and complete intersections
• Grzegorz Zwara Smooth morphisms of module varieties
• Tony Giaquinto PBW basis for certain Schur algebras
• Henning Haahr Andersen Quantum analogues of cohomology of vector bundles on flag varieties
• Yan Soibelman On some questions of deformation theory and non-commutative geometry
• Amnon Yekutieli The Auslander Condition and Perverse Sheaves
• Christof Geiss Derived tame tree algebras
• Darin Stephenson Weighted Quantum Polynomial Rings
• Eric Vasserot Quiver varieties with symmetries
• Paul Smith Intersection theory for non-commutative surfaces
• David Patrick Blowing-up noncommutative weighted projective spaces
• Izuru Mori Intersection Multiplicity over Noncommutative Algebras
• Thierry Levasseur Invariant differential operators under the action of a reductive group
• Gerald Schwarz Finite Dimensional Representations of Invariant Differential Operators
• Ian Musson Completion of solvable enveloping algebras at the clique of the augmentation ideal
• Severino Collier Coutinho Holomorphic foliations and nonholonomic modules
• Colin Ingalls Quantum Toric Varieties
• Nicolai Reshetikhin Integrability of characteristic systems
• Michaela Vancliff The Points of Quadratic Algebras
• Alexei Bondal A symplectic groupoid of triangular bilinear forms and the braid group
• Daniel Chan Noncommutative polarizations
• Daniel Levcovitz Algebraic D-modules and Characteristic varieties
• Jacques Alev Hochshild (co)homology of certain algebras of invariant differential operators
• Jean-Luc Brylinski Chern-Simons theory and bundles of infinite-dimensional matrix algebras
• Alexander Rosenberg Noncommutative schemes and spaces
• Dennis Keeler Sigma-ample divisors
• Ranee Brylinski Is there equivariant deformation quantization?
• Alan Weinstein Nonassociative geometry?

Geometric and Topological Aspects of Group Theory

May. 8 -12, 2000

• Mark Feighn The topology at infinity of Out(F_n)
• Michah Sageev CAT(0) cube complexes and the Kropholler-Roller conjecture
• Geoffrey Mess Ends and boundaries of groups
• Mike Handel Abelian subgroups of Out(F_n)
• Peter Scott Canonical splittings of groups and of 3-manifolds
• Hyam Rubinstein CAT(0) structures on 3-manifold groups
• Peter Shalen Boundary slopes of knots, and 3-manifolds with cyclic fundamental group
• Marc Culler Smallish knots in small 3-manifolds
• Noel Brady Dimensions of CAT(0) E(G) and underline[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "E" hasn't been defined.] (G) spaces
• Roger Alperin Uniform exponential growth
• Benson Farb Pushouts (after Serre and Gersten-Stallings)
• Mladen Bestvina Van Kampen's embedding obstruction for discrete groups
• Lee Mosher Quasi-actions on trees
• Kevin Whyte The large scale geometry of graphs of groups
• Martin Bridson Combings of groups and grammatical complexity
• Karen Vogtmann The geometry of spaces of finite labelled trees
• Ruth Charney Automorphisms of Coxeter groups
• Dani Wise Negative curvature and residual finiteness

MSRI/PMMB Short Course: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Molecular and Cell Biology

June 12-23, 2000

• Sylvia Spengler, Basic Biology for NonBiologists
• Terry Speed, Chromosome maps
• Terry Speed, Molecular evolution and database searching
• Ram Samudrala, Protein Structure Prediction
• Lior Pachter, The Mathematics of Gene Recognition
• Wilma Olson, DNA Sequence and Three-dimensional Structure
• Nick Cozzarelli, Mechanisms of DNA Unlinking and Chromosome Segregation
• Richard Karp, Some Combinatorial and Algorithmic Problems Related to DNA Microarrays
• David Baker, Prediction and design of protein structures and folding mechanisms
• James Wang Transertion, gene silencing, and DNA supercoiling in bacteria
• Michael Levitt, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
• James White, Geometry and Topology of DNA
• De Witt Sumners, DNA Knots
• Steve Levene, Modern Theory of Gel Electrophoresis
• Alexander Vologodskii, Large-scale conformational properties of DNA
• Orly Alter, Singular Value Decomposition for Genome-Wide Expression Data Processing and Modeling
• Ignacio Tinoco, RNA Structure and Function
• Sandrine Dudoit, Linkage Analysis of Complex Human Traits Using Identity by Descent Data
• David Bensimon, Elastic properties of twisted stretched single DNA
• Philip Green, Construction of human expressed sequence tag (EST) contigs and their usein estimating gene number
• John Marko, How are centimeter-long chromosomes dealt with inside micron-scalecells?
• Elizabeth Thompson, 1. Monte Carlo Likelihood for genetic analyses and 2. Coalescents, phylogenies, and disequilibrium mapping
• Eric Siggia, Extracting Regulatory Motifs from Genomes and Microarray data

Mathematics and Computational Biology of Genome Analysis

June 12-23, 2000

• Kelly A. Frazer, Active conservation of noncoding sequences revealed by cross species comparsions
• Pavel A. Pevzner, Identification of Modified Proteins by Tandem Mass-Spectrometry
• Gary A. Churchill, Making the Most of Microarray Experiments
• William S. Hancock, An Integrated View of Bioinformatics for both Genomics and Proteomics
• Wing Hung Wong, A model-based expression index from oligonucleotide expression arrays.
• Brian D. Ripley , Finding Needles in Haystacks: Tools for Finding Structure in Large Datasets .
• Nancy J. Cox, Genetic Variation in the NIDDM1 Region .
• Amir Ben-Dor, Computational Methods in Analyzing Gene Expression Data .
• Elizabeth A. Thompson , LINKAGE ANALYSIS; past, present and future
• Bruce Conklin , G-protein control of electrically active tissue

Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop

July 24-28, 2000

• Elwyn Berlekamp, Environmental Go
• Bill Spight, Analysis of the 4/21/98 Jiang-Rui endgame
• Bill Fraser, Analysis Tools: "Brute-Force" and "Winsolve"
• Matthew Cook, Still Life
• Jurg Nievergelt, Half-a-century of computer chess: The longest running experiment in knowledge engineering
• Michael Lachmann, Cris Moore, Ivan Rapaport, Who wins Domineering on rectangular boards?
• Fabian Maeser, Global threats in combinatorial games: A computation model with applications to chess endgames
• Vadim Anshelevich, The game of Hex: The hierarchical approach
• Tom Ferguson, Another form of Matrix Nim
• Frank Harary, Wolfgang Slany, Oleg Verbitsky, A symmetric strategy in graph avoidance games
• Len Haff, A natural map of numbers and combinatorial games
• Georg Snatzke, Amazons
• Richard Nowakowski, The game of End-Nim
• Katherine Scott, Loony dots and boxes endgame
• Howard Landman, Alternate proof of the periodicity of the Sprague Grundy Function of Wythoff's Game
• Dong Geon Kim, A decoding scheme for 4-ary lexicodes with minimum distance 4
• Eric Demaine, Martin Demaine, Helena Verrill, Coin-moving puzzles
• Jeremiah Farrell Games on word configurations
• Cris Moore, One-dimensional Peg Solitaire
• Matthew Ginsberg, Games of some chance: Extending computational techniques to games of imperfect information
• Arthur Benjamin, Le Her
• John Conway, Infinite Games
• Scott Huddleston,Jerry Shurman, Transfinite Chomp
• Jacob Lurie, Vines
• David Wolfe, Go endgames are hard
• David Eppstein, Searching for spaceships
• Aviezri Fraenkel, Two-player games on cellular automata
• Martin Mueller, Arrows: A Program that Plays Amazons
• Takenobu Takizawa, An Application of Mathematical Game Theory to Go Endgames -- Some Width Two-Entrance Rooms with/without Kos --
• Sol Golomb, Hypercube Tic-Tac-Toe
• David Moews, The abstract structure of the group of games.
• Jonathan Schaeffer, The Games Computers (and People) Play
• Bob Li, A game of switching network and a game of triangles.
• Robert McEliece, How Close to Maximum Likelihood is Iterative (Turbo) Decoding?
• Gadiel Seroussi, Elliptic curves / cryptology
• Dilip Sarwate, Fast Implementations of Berlekamp's BCH Decoding Algorithm
• Oscar Moreno, Exponential sums and improved minimum distance bounds for codes and improvements on the Chevalley-Warning and Ax-Katz results.
• Noam Elkies, The influences of algebraic geometry of curves over finite fields on coding theory.

Non Workshop Lectures

• Ehud Friedgut The Probabalistic Method
• Herbert Edelsbrunner Mathematical Problems in the Reconstruction of Shapes
• Bruce Beasley On The Use of Computers in the Design of Sculpture

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