Recent Developments in Representation Theory : Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lecture and International Conference: May 1-6, 2014, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

This volume contains selected expository lectures delivered at the Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference, held May 1-6, 2014, at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA. Several significant developments of the last decade in representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras are related to combinatorics. Three of the five lectures in this volume deal, respectively, with the Catalan combinatorics, the combinatorics of Gelfand-Zetlin polytopes, and the combinatorics of tilting modules. The remaining papers present history and recent advances in the study of left orders in left Artinian rings and a survey on invariant theory of Artin-Schelter regular algebras.