Research of Michaela Vancliff

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Background on my Research Area

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I work in the subject of non-commutative algebra. Broadly speaking, this subject is about solving systems of "polynomial" equations where the solutions are functions (typically differential operators or matrices, etc). This means that we cannot assume that the variables in the equations commute with each other. Such equations arise in the theory of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, physics, etc.

The problem of solving a system of equations in non-commutative algebra may be translated to one involving an algebra over a field, and the representation theory (or module theory) of that algebra. My research is in the subarea of non-commutative algebraic geometry, which is about using geometric methods to understand the algebra and its representation theory that arise in this way.

The originators of this kind of non-commutative algebraic geometry are Michael Artin, John Tate and Michel Van den Bergh through work they did in the late 1980's. The subject has grown through the work of these people and of S. Paul Smith, Toby Stafford, Thierry Levasseur, Lieven Le Bruyn and James Zhang to name a few. New ideas and theories are continually being presented, and the research in this subject has grown considerably since the late 1980's. My publication list is below. Click on the preceding names to find other publications or go to http://www.math.washington.edu/~smith/Research/research.html for a more complete list.

Brief Biography

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I obtained my Mathematics Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Washington (Mathematics) under the supervision of S. Paul Smith. The University of Washington is in Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
I obtained my Mathematics bachelor degree in 1986 from the University of Warwick (Mathematics), which is in the Midlands in England.
I spent 6 months of my last academic year of my PhD in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Auckland, in Auckland, New Zealand.

After graduating from Warwick, I was a high school teacher in greater London for one academic year, after which I began my Ph.D.
After getting my Ph.D, I worked for 2 years at the University of Southern California (Mathematics) in Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.; and then for one year at the University of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium; and then for 2 years at the University of Oregon ( Mathematics ) in Eugene, OR, U.S.A. In August 1998, I began working in the Mathematics Department of the University of Texas at Arlington in Arlington, Texas, where I am now an associate professor.

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Talk at MSRI Feb 23, 2000: The Points of Quadratic Algebras. pdf file    dvi file    Video of talk

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Talk at Central Texas Algebra Conference at Baylor University, Feb 22, 2003:
The Points and Lines of Quadratic Algebras. pdf file    dvi file   

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Talk in workshop ``Interactions Between Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry'', BIRS, Banff, Canada, Sept 14, 2005: Using an Algebro-Geometric Method to Construct Clifford Quantum P3s with a Predetermined Finite Point Scheme. pdf file    dvi file   

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Publications

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Publications 4-7 were funded in part by NSF grant DMS-9622765; 8-11 by NSF grant DMS-9996056; 12-13 by NSF grant DMS-0200757, and 13-14 by NSF grant DMS-0457022.

  1. Quadratic Algebras Associated with the Union of a Quadric and a Line in P3, J. Algebra 165 No. 1 (1994), 63-90. official article

  2. The Defining Relations of Quantum n x n Matrices, J. London Math. Soc. 52 No. 2 (1995), 255-262. pdf file

  3. Embedding a Quantum Nonsingular Quadric in a Quantum P3 (with Kristel Van Rompay), J. Algebra 195 No. 1 (1997), 93-129. official article

  4. Some Quantum P3s with Finitely Many Points (with Kristel Van Rompay and Luc Willaert), Comm. Alg. 26 No. 4 (1998), 1193-1208. official article (title incorrect on that website)

  5. Some Quantum P3s with One Point (with Brad Shelton), Comm. Alg. 27 No. 3 (1999), 1429-1443. official article

  6. Embedding a Quantum Rank Three Quadric in a Quantum P3 (with Brad Shelton), Comm. Alg. 27 No. 6 (1999), 2877-2904. official article

  7. Primitive and Poisson Spectra of Twists of Polynomial Rings, Algebras and Representation Theory 2 No. 3 (1999), 269-285. pdf file

  8. Four-dimensional Regular Algebras with Point Scheme a Nonsingular Quadric in P3 (with Kristel Van Rompay), Comm. Alg. 28 No. 5 (2000), 2211-2242. official article

  9. Non-commutative Spaces for Graded Quantum Groups and Graded Clifford Algebras, Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics 1 (Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, 1999), 303-320, Progress in Physics, 18, Birkhaeuser Boston, Boston, MA, 2000. pdf file

  10. Schemes of Line Modules I (with Brad Shelton), J. London Math. Soc. 65 No. 3 (2002), 575-590. official article

  11. Schemes of Line Modules II (with Brad Shelton), Comm. Alg. 30 No. 5 (2002), 2535-2552. official article

  12. Some Finite Quantum P3s that are Infinite Modules over their Centers (with Darin R. Stephenson), J. Algebra 297 No. 1 (2006), 208-215. official article

  13. Constructing Clifford Quantum P3s with Finitely Many Points (with Darin R. Stephenson), J. Algebra 312 (2007), 86-110. official article

  14. Generalizations of Graded Clifford Algebras and of Complete Intersections (with Thomas Cassidy), preprint 2008. pdf file





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Cool Quadrics

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