Algebra Seminars 2001-2002


6th November 2001: A J McIntyre (Edinburgh), Bounds in the theory of polynomial ideals
13th November 2001: C Roever (Newcastle), Subgroups of fractal branch groups
20th November 2001: T H Lenagan (Edinburgh), Coinvariant theory
6th November 2001: V Bavula (Sheffield), The problems of Dixmier for the Weyl Algebra
4th December 2001: M Edjvet (Nottingham), Irreducible cyclic presentations of the trivial group
15th January 2002: N D Gilbert (Heriot-Watt), HNN extensions of semigroups
29th January 2002: J Howie (Heriot-Watt), Intersections of Magnus subgroups in one-relator groups
5th February 2002: S Howson (Nottingham), Non-abelian Iwasawa theory, and applications of euler characteristics
13th February 2002: R Fioresi (Bologna), Algebraic supergroups and quantum supergroups
19th February 2002: T Kucera (Winnipeg/Manchester), The injective modules over Jategaonkar's rings
G Puninski (Moscow/Manchester), Finite length modules over a ring of differential operators
5th March 2002: C Maclachlan (Aberdeen), Two-generator arithmetic Kleinian groups
12th March 2002: M Domokos (Edinburgh), Matrix invariants and related topics
23rd April 2002: G Cliff (Edmonton/QMW), The coordinate ring of the quantum symplectic group
7th May 2002: M W Liebeck (Imperial College), Random walks on finite groups
14th May 2002: E B Vinberg (Moscow), Commutative homogeneous spaces
23rd May 2002: V A Puninskaya (Moscow), Strongly minimal modules


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