Seminar:

Spring 2013, Thursdays, Milner 216, 4:00-4:50 PM


Date: January 24

"  Introduction to Hopf Algebras "
  Jacob White  

Abstract

In this talk, we introduce Hopf algebras, which can be viewed as vector-space generalizations of groups. We shall discus some basic results, examples, and some connections to algebraic topology, combinatorics, and other areas.