Algebra Seminars 2002-2003


18th October 2002: A H Schofield (Bristol), Stranger duality
22nd October 2002: C J Smyth (Edinburgh), Primality testing in polynomial time: the AKS breakthrough
29th October 2002: J Slingerland (Heriot-Watt), Quantum group symmetry breaking and confinement in planar physics
5th November 2002: I Gordon (Glasgow), Symplectic reflection algebras and symplectic singularities
12th November 2002: T De Piro (Edinburgh), Hrushovski's proof of the Manin-Mumford conjecture
19th November 2002: P Lunau (Heriot-Watt), Automatic structures for fundamental groupoids of graphs of groups
3rd December 2002: A J Duncan (Newcastle), Quantum algorithms in group theory
14th January 2003: G Mislin (ETH, Zurich), The Bass conjecture and acyclic groups
11th February 2003: R Gilman (Stevens Inst Tech and Imperial College), Approximating word problems of finitely presented groups
18th February 2003: K Ardakov (Cambridge), Krull dimension of Iwasawa algebras
25th February 2003: Y Bugeaud (Strasbourg), Exponential Diophantine equations
4th March 2003: N Snashall (Leicester), Support varieties and Hochschild cohomology rings
22nd April 2003: N Ruskuc (St Andrews), Generators and presentations for wreath products and diagonal acts of semigroups
4th March 2003: N Kopteva (Heriot-Watt), The Tits alternative for generalised tetrahedron groups
10th June 2003: J McKay (Concordia), Quantum mechanics, dispersionless KP, Witten's manifold, and the Monster


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