Algebra Seminars 2000-2001


17th October 2000 : R D Camina (Cambridge): Linearity of pro-p groups

24th October 2000 : M Batty (Edinburgh): Asymptotic homology of graph groups

31st October 2000 : T H Lenagan (Edinburgh): Hunting H-primes in quantum matrices

14th November 2000: A R Prince (Heriot-Watt): Semifields and generalised quadrangles

28th November 2000: U H M Martin (St. Andrews): Termination

12th December 2000: M Battacharjee (Guwahati, India / Leeds): Tree-like limit structures in infinite primitive Jordan groups

16th January 2001: L O'Carroll (Edinburgh): Uniform Artin-Rees theorems and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity

23rd January 2001: C Smyth (Edinburgh): Variations on the theme of Hilbert's Theorem 90

30th January 2001: K Kalorkoti (Edinburgh): Macaulay's form of the resultant

13th February 2001: J Schroer (Leeds) Varieties of Gelfand-Ponomarev modules

20th February 2001: V Metaftsis (Heriot-Watt) Subgroup separability of certain HNN extensions

6th March 2001: R I Grigorchuk (Steklov Institute, Moscow) Branch groups and L-presentations

1st May 2001: A J Baker (Glasgow) Some homological observations

8th May 2001: R Corran (Leicester) Monoids with least common multiples

15th May 2001: H-B Foxby (Copenhagen) Torsion and completion in commutative algebra

29th May 2001: M Domokos (Budapest) Rings of matrix invariants in positive characteristic

5th June 2001: R Lawther (Lancaster) Fixed point spaces in actions of exceptional groups


The current programme is available here.