Preparatory School on

Operads and Universal Algebra

June 21 – June 25, 2010, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

The purpose of this preparatory school is to provide prerequisite knowledge to operads and universal algebra for graduate students and non-experts. This school should prepare the audience through mini-courses for the Summer School and International Conference on the same subjects in the following weeks when more advanced topics and current research will be discussed.

Schedule of Preparatory School

	Monday June 21	Tuesday June 22	Wednesday June 23	Thursday June 24	Friday June 25	Saturday June 26	Sunday June 27
8:30-9am	Opening
9-10am	Loday 1	Loday 2	Hartl 1	Loday 3	Loday 4
10:10-11:10am	Wang 1	Huang 1	Sun 1	Sun2	Hartl 2
11:10-11:30am	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
11:30-12:30	Wang 2	Guo 2	Yang 2	Yang 3	Huang 3
12:30-2:30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
2:30-3:30pm	Guo 1	Yang 1	Break	Huang 2	Sun 3		Bus to Tianjin
3:30-4pm	Break	Break		Break	Break
4-5pm	Tutorial	Tutorial		Tutorial	Tutorial

Summaries

Jean-Louis Loday: Four lectures on Associative algebras, Lie algebras, bialgebras, Lie bialgebras, dendriform and Zinbiel algebras.

Manfred Hartl: Two lecture on model categories.

Lizhong Wang: Two lectures on representations of symmetric groups, Young diagrams and Frobenius characteristic.

Zhifeng Yang: Three lectures on catetories, functors, monads and homological algebra.

Yi-Zhi Huang: Three lectures on vertex operator algebras.

Shanzhong Sun: Three lectures on A-infinity algebras.

Li Guo: Two lectures on Rota-Baxter algebras.