The class of finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras is a field of
    current active research. The classication of these algebras has seen
    substantial progress since the development of the so-called "Lifting
    method" by Andruskiewitsch and Schneider [AS]. With this tool, the
    case in which the group of group-like elements is abelian is almost
    completed and recent results   by these and other authors
    such as Angiono [Ang] and Heckenberger [H] seem to lead to a very
    soon completion.
    On the other hand, the non-abelian case, though also approachable
    via this method, is far from being completed. One of the main
    obstacles is the little amount of known examples of
    finite-dimensional Nichols algebras (a key structural component of
    these Hopf algebras) and the lack of intuition on how these objects
    should behave. However examples do exist and it is expectable that
    sufficient information about them could throw some light on the
    general case.
    In this talk, we will review the classication of pointed Hopf
    algebras over the symmetric groups S_3 and S_4, as found in a joint
    work with G. Garcia [GG]. We will also construct Hopf-Galois
    extensions of these algebras and use them to show that all of them
    are actually cocycle deformations of their graded versions, which
    are Radford bi-products of the corresponding Nichols algebra and
    group algebra. This will allow us to give a classication of the
    module categories over the categories of representations of these
    algebras. These results were proved in a joint work with M.
    Mombelli[GM].
    
    [AndS]Annals of Mathematics 171 No. 1 (2010). 
    [Ang] Submitted (2011). 
    [H] Advances in Mathematics 220 (2009). 
    [GG] Israel Journal of Mathematics 183 (2011). 
    [GM] Pacic Journal of Mathematics, to appear.