Edinburgh Algebra Seminars 03-04

14th October 2003:	J Howie (Heriot-Watt), Conjugacy of finite subsets of hyperbolic groups
21st October 2003:	P H Kropholler (Glasgow), Modular invariants of finite orthogonal groups
28th October 2003:	S Majid (Queen Mary, London), Noncommutative differential geometry on finite groups, enveloping algebras and q-spheres
4th November 2003:	M Domokos (Edinburgh), On orthogonal invariants of several vectors
5th November 2003:	I V Kazatchkov (Omsk and Newcastle), Algebraic geometry over groups: logical foundations
11th November 2003:	E R Dombi (St Andrews), HNN extensions of inverse semigroups
2nd December 2003:	J T Stafford (Michigan), Naive noncommutative blowing up
9th December 2003:	P Jørgensen (Leeds), Auslander-Reiten theory in topology
13th January 2004:	M S Saeed (Heriot-Watt), Homomorphic images of the triangle group Δ(2,3,4)
27th January 2004:	K A Brown (Glasgow), The symplectic leaves of the space of nxn complex matrices, the monoid of partial permutations of n objects, and the primitive ideals of the quantum matrix algebra - a menage a trois
3rd February 2004:	T H Lenagan (Edinburgh), The H-primes in quantum matrices have been captured (but not tamed)!
10th February 2004:	P Zalesskii (Brasilia), Profinite surface groups
17th February 2004:	L Rigal (St Etienne), Quantum graded algebras with a straightening law
24th February 2004:	N D Gilbert (Heriot-Watt), Actions and expansions of groups and semigroups
2nd March 2004:	B Nucinkis (ETH, Zürich), On dimensions in Bredon homology
9th March 2004:	C Maclachlan (Aberdeen), Arithmetic and Coxeter groups giving small hyperbolic manifolds
27th April 2004:	M A Ronan (Illinois-Chicago), The classification of buildings
4th May 2004:	M Elder (St Andrews), Regular, context-free and counter languages of geodesics in groups
19th May 2004:	N L Johnson (Iowa), The non-solvable triangular transitive translation planes

Algebra Seminars 2003-2004