Title: A Friendly Introduction to Skew Braces and Their Connections with the Yang-Baxter Equation
Speaker: Sin Yi Tsang
Institution: Ochanomizu University
Date & Time: March 6, 2025, 20:00–22:00
Location: Zoom ID: 904 645 6677, Password: 2024
Skew braces are algebraic structures that emerged from the study of set-theoretic solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation. In this talk, I will begin with the definition and basic examples of skew braces, then explain their connections to solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. I will also discuss several algebraic research directions in the study of skew braces.
Sin Yi Tsang has been a faculty member at Ochanomizu University since April 2021. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016. Prior to moving to Japan, she was a Research Fellow at Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai (2018–2020) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University (2016–2018). Beyond skew braces, her research interests include Hopf-Galois structures and regular subgroups of the holomorph.
