Algebra Seminars 2004-2005


5th October 2004: V A R Gould (York), The monoid of endomorphisms of a basis algebra
12th October 2004: L O'Carroll (Edinburgh), Segre varieties and a generalised Eakin-Sathaye Theorem
19th October 2004: I Cheltsov (Edinburgh), Birationally rigid algebraic varieties
2nd November 2004: T H Lenagan (Edinburgh), Noncommutative unique factorisation rings
16th November 2004: A Dite (Edinburgh), Quantum antisymmetric matrices
23rd November 2004: C Stroppel (Glasgow), Functorial invariants for tangles and knots
30th November 2004: P H Kropholler (Glasgow), A generalisation of the Lyndon-Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence (with applications)
17th December 2004: D Groves (CalTech), Limit groups for relatively hyperbolic groups
18th January 2005: J Scott (Leicester), Grassmannians and cluster algebras
25th January 2005: M V Lawson (Heriot-Watt), A correspondence between balanced varieties and inverse monoids
1st February 2005: T Hadfield (Queen Mary, London), Twisted homology of quantum groups
8th February 2005: D Kahrobaei (St Andrews), Residual solvability of groups
15th February 2005: D Preece (Kent), Power sequence terraces for Z_n
15th February 2005: M Katzman (Sheffield), Graphs and their ideals
1st March 2005: E G Rees (Edinburgh), Higher characters, symmetric products and Frobenius algebras
8th March 2005: M Martino (Glasgow), Quivers and Poisson geometry
26th April 2005: A Martino (CRM, Barcelona), The conjugacy problem for group extensions
3rd May 2005: S Cleary (City College, CUNY), Thompson's groups: pathologies abound
10th May 2005: C M Roney-Dougal (St Andrews), Primitive permutation groups of low degrees


The current programme is available here.

For further information, contact

Tom Lenagan
Department of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building,
Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ.

Jim Howie
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Scott Russell Building, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS.