Lie Algebras, Madison 1987 [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Workshop held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 23–28, 1987 / edited by Georgia Benkart, J. Marshall Osborn.

The absolute toral rank of a lie algebra -- Differential forms and the algebra W(m:n) -- Isomorphism classes of Hamiltonian lie algebras -- On lie algebras with a subalgebra of codimension one -- Forms of restricted simple lie algebras -- The subalgebra lattice of a supersolvable lie algebra -- Lie theoretic methods in cohomology theory -- An introduction to schubert submodules -- Kac-Moody modules and generalized Clifford algebras -- Workshop lectures.

During the academic year 1987-1988 the University of Wisconsin in Madison hosted a Special Year of Lie Algebras. A Workshop on Lie Algebras, of which these are the proceedings, inaugurated the special year. The principal focus of the year and of the workshop was the long-standing problem of classifying the simple finite-dimensional Lie algebras over algebraically closed field of prime characteristic. However, other lectures at the workshop dealt with the related areas of algebraic groups, representation theory, and Kac-Moody Lie algebras. Fourteen papers were presented and nine of these (eight research articles and one expository article) make up this volume.