Quantum Groups and Lie Theory

• Introduction; 1. Lectures on cyclotomic Hecke algebras Susumu Ariki; 2. An introduction to group doublecross products and some uses Edwin Beggs; 3. Canonical bases and piecewise-linear combinatorics Roger Carter and Robert Marsh; 4. Integrable and Weyl modules for quantum affine sl2 Vyjayanthi Chari and Andrew Pressley; 5. Notes on balanced categories and Hopf algebras Bernhard Drabant; 6. Lectures on the dynamical Yang-Baxter equations Pavel Etingof and Olivier Schiffmann; 7. Quantized primitive ideal spaces as quotients of affine algebraic varieties K. R. Goodearl; 8. Representations of semisimple Lie algebras in positive characteristic and quantum groups at roots of unity Iain Gordon; 9. The Yang-Baxter equation for operators on function fields Jintai Ding and Timothy J. Hodges; 10. Noncommutative differential geometry and twisting of quantum groups Shahn Majid; 11. Finite quantum group and pointed Hopf algebras Ian M. Musson; 12. On some two parameter quantum and Jordanian deformations, and their coloured extensions Deepak Parashar and Roger J. McDermott; 13. Tensor categories and braid representations Hans Wenzl.

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