Deepak Naidu Assistant Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences

Contact Information

• Address:	Department of Mathematical Sciences Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115
  Office:	Watson Hall 358.
  Phone:	815-753-6756.
  E-mail:

Current Teaching (Spring 2012)

• MATH 240 Linear Algebra and Applications. Course webpage is on blackboard.
• MATH 421/521 Algebra II. Course webpage is on blackboard.

Research Interests

• Tensor categories and their applications, representation theory.
  
  
• Structure of algebras, specifically their Hochschild cohomology and their associated deformations.

Publications and Preprints

9. Hochschild cohomology and quantum Drinfeld Hecke algebras (with S. Witherspoon), submitted November 2011 to Selecta Mathematica. [arXiv]
   
   
8. Hochschild cohomology of group extensions of quantum symmetric algebras (with P. Shroff and S. Witherspoon), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 139 (2011), 1553-1567. [arXiv]
   
   
7. Crossed pointed categories and their equivariantizations, Pacific Journal of Mathematics 247 (2010), no. 2, 477-496. [arXiv]
   
   
6. Centers of graded fusion categories (with S. Gelaki and D. Nikshych), Algebra and Number Theory 3 (2009), no. 8, 959-990. [arXiv]
   
   
5. A finiteness property for braided fusion categories (with E. C. Rowell), Algebras and Representation Theory 14 (2011), no. 5, 837-855. [arXiv]
   
   
4. Fusion subcategories of representation categories of twisted quantum doubles of finite groups (with D. Nikshych and S. Witherspoon), International Mathematics Research Notices (2009), no. 22, 4183-4219. [arXiv]
   
   
3. Some properties of group-theoretical categories (with S. Gelaki), Journal of Algebra 322 (2009), no. 8, 2631-2641. [arXiv]
   
   
2. Lagrangian subcategories and braided tensor equivalences of twisted quantum doubles of finite groups (with D. Nikshych), Communications in Mathematical Physics 279 (2008), 845-872. [arXiv]
   
   
1. Categorical Morita equivalence for group-theoretical categories, Communications in Algebra 35 (2007), 3544-3565. [arXiv]

Conferences Organized

• AMS Special Session Tensor Categories and Representation Theory held Saturday, January 7, at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts. Co-organized with Dmitri Nikshych.
  
  
• AMS Special Session Fusion Categories and Applications held October 17-18 at the 2009 Fall Central Section Meeting, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Co-organized with Eric Rowell.