Archive of Virtual Workshop held November 20-21, 2021

Videos of some talks are in a playlist in our YouTube Channel, and linked below!

This workshop covered a broad range of topics in algebra and combinatorics.
There were two plenary speakers and the first 6 short talks on Saturday, November 20, and the remaining 6 short talks on Sunday, November 21.
A Gathertown space was open for socializing, discussion, networking, etc for the duration of the conference.
Our simple space has many shareable whiteboards, some in private spaces, floor areas for meeting, screenshare capability, and the meeting schedule in the back of the room where you enter.
If Gathertown is new to you, see our meeting's beginner's guide.

Plenary Speakers

All times are in th EST (UTC-5, Eastern Standard, New York USA) time zone.

Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
SLIDES Walking on Graphs, A tour inspired by the McKay Correspondence, Representations, and Invariant Theory
Saturday, November 20, 10:20-11:10AM
Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
AWM 50 Years and Counting
Sunday, November 21, 12:00-12:20pm
Patricia Hersh (University of Oregon)
SLIDES Posets arising as 1-skeleta of simple polytopes, the nonrevisiting path conjecture, and poset topology
VIDEO Saturday, November 20, 2:40-3:30PM

Schedule and Short Presentation Speakers

Abstracts

Saturday Morning
11:20-11:40am Ritika Nair (University of Kansas)
On the Lefschetz property for quotients by monomial ideals containing squares of variables
VIDEO
11:50-12:10pm Soffia Arnadottir (University of Waterloo)
SLIDES Quantum walks on Cayley graphs
VIDEO
12:20-12:40pm Mariia Sobchuk (University of Waterloo)
Quantum indpendence and chromatic numbers

Saturday Afternoon
2:10-2:30pm Tina Chen (University of Waterloo)
TALK Bipartite walks and the Hamiltonians
VIDEO
2:40-3:30pm Plenary Talk by Patricia Hersh
3:40-4:00pm Faith Zhang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Recursive Rank One Perturbations for Pole Placement and Cone Reachability
4:10-4:30pm Mee Seong Im (United States Naval Academy)
Grothendieck rings of periplectic Lie superalgebras
4:40-5:00pm Sarah Brauner (University of Minnesota)
SLIDES A Type B analog of the Whitehouse representation
VIDEO

Sunday
10:00-10:20am Iva Halacheva (Northeastern University)
SLIDES Braid group actions, crystals, and cacti.
VIDEO
10:30-11:50am Elizabeth Kelley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
SLIDES Rooted Clusters for Graph LP Algebras
PAPER https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.14785
VIDEO
11:00-11:20am Sabrina Lato (University of Waterloo)
SLIDES Spectral Moore Bounds
PAPER https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10367
11:30-11:50am Sunita Chepuri (University of Michigan)
SLIDES k-Positivity of the Dual Canonical Basis
VIDEO
12:00-12:20pm Plenary talk by Georgia Benkart
12:30-1:00pm Sheila Sundaram (Pierrepont School)
SLIDES The plethystic inverse of the odd Lie modules
VIDEO

Schedule

Organizers:

Seth Chaiken (webmaster) (University at Albany)
Laura Colmenarejo (North Carolina State University)
Cristian Lenart (University at Albany)
Antun Milas (University at Albany)
Karin Reinhold (University at Albany)
Lauren Rose (Bard College)
Changlong Zhong (University at Albany)