Edinburgh Algebra Seminars 03-04

11th October 2005:	J Howie (Heriot-Watt), Subdirect products of limit groups
1st November 2005:	T Leinster (Glasgow), A simple description of Thompson's group F
8th November 2005:	N D Gilbert (Heriot-Watt), The humble P-theorem of the levellers
15th November 2005:	A J Cain (St Andrews), Decidability and undecidability for automatic semigroups
22nd November 2005:	I Gordon (Glasgow), Noncommutative Hilbert schemes
29th November 2005:	T H Lenagan (Edinburgh), Quantum algebras with a straightening law
17th January 2006:	I Cheltsov (Edinburgh), Finite subsets of projective spaces and topology of threefolds
24th January 2006:	A Miah (Edinburgh), Commutator properties of the generalised wreath product
31st January 2006:	S Launois (Edinburgh), New quantizations of the first Weyl algebra and automorphisms of quantum algebras
21st February 2006:	M Tweedale (Imperial College), Minimizing presentation invariants of groups
28th February 2006:	D J Benson (Aberdeen), Polynomial and power series invariants of finite groups
6th March 2006:	S A Lopes (Porto), Representations of q-enveloping algebras of nilpotent Lie algebras
25th April 2006:	J P Bell (Simon Fraser), A generalized Skolem-Mahler-Lech theorem for algebraic varieties
2nd May 2006:	L L Richard (Edinburgh), Quasi-Lie structure of σ-derivations of C[t^{± 1}]
	J D Mitchell (St Andrews), Relative rank - an algebraic notion of size for infinite semigroups
16th May 2006:	A Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh), Nil algebras
	M R Quick (St Andrews), Some groups which just aren't quite finite
30th May 2006:	B Baumeister (Berlin), Factorizations of groups
13th June 2006:	S J Pride (Glasgow), Relative one-relator groups
	S Donkin (York), Some representation theory of Hall's universal group