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Yun Gao, Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3

Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 33952
Fax: (416) 736-5757
Email: ygao@yorku.ca

Research interests

Kac-Moody Lie algebras, extended affine Lie algebras, toroidal Lie algebras

Quantum groups, representation theory and vertex operators

Lie algebras and superalgebras associated with other algebraic structures

Recent publications

Y. Gao, S. Shang,
Universal coverings of Steinberg Lie algebras of small characteristic
Journal of Algebra 311(2007) 216--230

H. Chen, Y. Gao,
$BC_N$-graded Lie algebras arising from fermionic representations
Journal of Algebra 308 (2007) 545--566

Y. Gao, Z. Zeng,
Hermitian representations of the extended affine Lie algebra $\widetilde{gl_2(C_q)}$
Advances in Mathematics 207 (2006) 244--265

H. Chen, Y. Gao, S. Shang,
$B(0,N)$-graded Lie superalgebras coordinatized by quantum tori
Science in China, Series A--Mathematics 49 (2006) 1740--1752

For a list of selected publications, see here.

Courses taught

Modern Algebra, 2006-2007
Topics in Lie Theory, Fall 2003
Measure Theory, Fall 2001
Commutative Algebra, Summer 2001
Algebraic Curves, Winter 2000
Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, Summer 2000
Introduction to Extended Affine Lie Algebras, (Fields Institute) Fall 2000
Fields and Galois Theory, (Yale) Spring 1999

Professional activity

Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews

Co-organizer for Workshop and Conference on Infinite Dimensional Lie Theory and Its Applications,
The Fields Institute, July 17 -- 25, 2003

Organizer for the special session on Representation Theory of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras,
the AMS meeting (University of Toronto, September 22--24, 2000)

Co-organizer for the special session on Kac-Moody Lie Algebras and Generalizations,
the CMS meeting (York University, December 8--10, 2001)

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