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E-mail mia@math.bgu.ac.il
Address Ben-Gurion university of the Negev
              Beer-Sheva 84105
              Israel

Research interests
Research grants
Editorship and Refereeing
Recent publications
Organizational activities
Research Students
Additional Information

Research interests:

		Hopf algebras and quantum groups and their applications to physics.
		Non-commutative ring theory.

Research grants:

		1980-1983 U.S.-Israel Binational Fund (with S. Montgomery). Quality of the completed work was rated excellent by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
		1986-1989 3 years Grant from The Basic Science Foundation, The Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
		1991-1994 3 Years Grant from Israel Ministry of Science joint with Prof. Davidson of the Physics Dep. of Ben Gurion Univ. Prof. Nissimov and Prof. Pacheva.
		1996-1999 3 years Grant (with S. Westreich) from the Basic Science Foundation, the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
		2001-2005 3 years Grant (with A. Yekutieli, M. Artin,J. Zhang) from the US-Israel Binational Fund.

Editorship and Refereeing:

		Editorship in Scientific Journals
			Editor in Communications in Algebra
			Organizer of the special double volume on Hopf algebras of the Israel Journal of Mathematics vol. 72, No. 1-2, (1990).
		Refereeing for Scientific Journals
			Journal of Algebra
			Israel Journal of Mathematics
			Proccedings of the American Math. Soc.
			Pacific Journal of Mathematics
			Communications in Algebra
			Zentralbladt fur Mathematics
		Refereeing for Research Projects administered by:
			Israel Academy of Sciences, Basic Research foundation.
			United State - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF).
			Israel Ministry of Sciences.
			US National National Sciences Foundation (NSF).
			International Science Foundation, Washington D.C.
			US National SecuriAgency (NSA) administered by the AMS.
			Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
			Member of a specialists register of the Hong Kong Research Grant Council.

Recent publications:

		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"From supersymmetry to quantum - commutativity",
		J. of Algebra, Vol 168, (1994), 1-27.
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Central invariants of H-module algebras",
		Comm. in Algebra, 21 ( 8 ) ( 1993 ), 2859 - 2883.
		Miriam Cohen, Davida Fischman and Sara Westreich,
		"Schur's double centralizer theorem for triangular Hopf algebras",
		Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 122 (1994), 19-29.
		Miriam Cohen,
		"Quantum commutativity and central invariants",
		Advances in Hopf algebras, Marcel Dekker, 25-38.
		Miriam Cohen, Serban Raianu and Sara Westreich,
		"Semiinvariants for Hopf algebra actions",
		Israel, J. of Mathematics, 88 (1994), 279 - 306.
		Miriam Cohen, Sara Westreich and Shenglin Zhu,
		"Determinants, Integrality and Noether's theorem for Quantum Commutative Algebras",
		Israel J. of Mathematics, 96 (1996), 185-222.
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Determinants and symmetries in Yetter-Drinfeld categories",
		Applied categorical structures, Kluwer Academic Pub,  6 (1998), 267-289.
		Miriam Cohen, Davida Fischman and Susan Montgomery,
		"On Yetter Drinfeld Categories and H- commutativity",
		Communications in Algebra, Vol 27, 3 (1999), 1321-1345.
		Miriam Cohen,
		"Representations and corepresentations of Hopf algebras",
		Marcel Dekker Lecture Notes Series in pure and applied math, Vol. 210, (2000), 67-80.
		Miriam Cohen, Anatoli Koryukin and Sara Westreich,
		"On generalized in variants of injective nonsingular module  algebras",
		J. of Algebra, Vol.223, 2(2000), 489-510.
		Miriam Cohen, Zhu Shenglin,
		"Invariants of the adjoint coaction and Yetter Drinfeld categories",
		J. of Pure and Applied Algebra, 159 (2001),149-171.
		Miriam Cohen
		"On generalized characters",
		Contemporary Math, Vol. 267 (2000),55-65
		Miriam Cohen and Steve Shnider,
		"Supersymmetry",
		Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Some interrelations between Hopf algebras and their duals",
		J. Algebra 283 (2005) 42-62.
		Miriam Cohen, Shlomo Gelaki and Sara Westreich,
		"Hopf algebras",
		Handbook in Algebra, 2005.
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Fourier transforms for Hopf algebra",
		Contemporary mathematics, Vol. 433, 2007
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Characters and a Verlinde-type formula for symmetric Hopf algebra",
		J. Algebra 320, 2008
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Higman ideals and Verinde-type formulas for Hopf Algebras",
		Ring and Module theory, Trends in Math 2010
		Miriam Cohen and Sara Westreich,
		"Structure constants related to symmetric Hopf Algebras",
		J. Algebra, 324 (2010)

Organizational activities:

		Position in academic administration ( partial list )
			1985-1990	Undergraduate chairman, Math. Dep. Ben Gurion Univ.
			1987-1992	Chairman of Committee of BGU's Faculty center.
			1988-1990	Member of the Vaad Hasegel Haakademi (Union of the Academic Faculty).
			1989-1993	Elected Member of the Executive Committee (Vaad Hapoel) of Ben Gurion University.
			1990-1991	Chairman of the Committee on public affairs of the Faculty of  Natural Sciences.
			1993-1995	Chairman of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Ben-Gurion University of  the Negev.
			1996-1997	Member of the appointments committee of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
			1997	Elected representative of the Faculty of Natural Sciences in the Council of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
			1998-2002	Elected Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of BGU.
			2003-present	Director of center for Advanced studies in Math at BGU.
			2006-present	Member of the Math Department appointment committee.
		Professional functions outside universities/Institutions, Conference organization
			1983	Organization of an Algebra Meeting at Ben-Gurion University, in cooperation with the Israel Mathematical Society.
			1985	Organization of the Algebra Seminar at UCLA.
			1989	Member of the organizing committee of the International meeting in Ring theory honoring Prof. S.A. Amitsur.
			1989	Chairman of organizing committee of the International meeting on Hopf algebras, at Ben-Gurion University.
			1990	Organization of a day of study ("Yom Iyun") on Hopf algebras
			1990	Organizer of the joint algebra seminar Bar-Ilan - BGU.
			1993	Organization of the annual meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union.
			1994	Organization of the annual meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union.
			1994	Initiation and preliminary organization of the joint Israel Mathematical Union and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) International meeting, May 1995.
			1994	Israeli Chair of the speaker Committee of the Joint Israeli Mathematical Union and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) International meeting, in May 1995.
			1997	Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress in Algebra and Combinatorics, Hong Kong.
			2000	Member of the organizing committee of the International workshop on Hopf algebras, Math Science Research Institute, Berkeley, California
			2002-present	Member of the evaluation committee of a center of excellence program administered the Israel Science foundation.
			2002	Member of the Scientific committee of the International conference on Hopf algebras in Non Commutative Geometry and Physics, Belgium.
			2002,2004,2006,2008	Chair of the organization and Scientific committee of the Flato Colloquia on Mathematics and Physics, BGU
			2003	Speaker at the Women Scientists Forum at the Israel Academy of sciences, Jerusalem.
			2004	Member of the organizing committee of the International meeting on Quantum Groups, Technion, Israel.
			2005	Chair of the session on Einstein and Quantum mechanics, Albert Einstein Legacy Symposium organized by the Israel Academy of Sciences.
			2007	Member of the organizing committee of the Amitsur meeting, Haifa University.
			2007	Member of the organizing committee of the International meeting on Hopf Algebras in Honour of S. Montgomery, USC, California.
			2010	Member of the organization of the Flato Colloquia, BGU.
		Professional consulting
			1986-1988	Chairman of the Education Subcommittee, Project Renewal, Yeroham.
			1987-1988	Member of a subcommittee of the Ministry of Education dealing with the Linear Algebra curriculum in high schools.
			1988-1992	Member of the National body of advisors to the President of BGU on women's stature in Institutions of Higher Learning.
			1991	Member of the executive committee and scientific advisor of the Institute of Industrial Mathematics affiliated with BGU, Beer-Sheva.
			2001-2003	Member of the Ford Foundation award committee on Environmental mental projects.
			2002	Member of the advising committee of the Rector of Haifa University .
			2001	Member of the professional evaluation committee of the Harvey Prize, Technion, Israel.
			2003	Member of the grant committee of the Clore foundation for outstanding Ph.D students.
			2004	Member of the Professional evaluation committee of the Emet Prize.

Research Students:

		Post Doctoral Fellows:
			1989-1992	Dr. Sara Westreich Dr. Noah Dana Picard
			1992-1994	Dr. Shenglin Zhu (sponsored by Vatat)
			1993-1995	Dr. Avital Frumkin
			1994-1996	Dr. Amnon Rosenman
			1996-1998	Dr. Andrey Reznikov
			2000-2001	Dr. Yuval Genosar
			2007-2009	Dr. Marco Zunino
			2008-2010	Dr. Zak Mesvan

		Ph.D. students
			Davida Fishman, graduated in 1989
			1993-1997 Shlomo Gelaki, winner of the Rothschild Post Graduate fellowship (1997)

		M.Sc. students
			1989-1992	Shlomo Gelaki Eli Zingerman

Additional Information:

		1991	Co-founder of the Institute for Industrial Mathematics affiliated with BGU, Beer-Sheva.
		1992-1994	President of the Israel Mathematical Union.
		1994	Israeli delegate to the council of the Euorpean Mathematical Society (attended in this capacity the 1994 Council meeting in Zurich).
		1996	Established (with Prof. Berend and Prof. Chipman) the special program in Bioinformatics of the Mathematics and CS Department at BGU.
		2003-present	Member of the National Committee on the Information Technology Society, appointed by the Prime Minister of Israel.