Algebra Seminars 1998-1999


20th October 1998 : N J Richmond (Leeds): Strata for the variety of modules

27th October 1998 : I G Gordon (Edinburgh): Representations of Hopf algebras arising from Lie theory

3rd November 1998 : T H Lenagan (Edinburgh): Poincare series of multifiltered algebras

10th November 1998: D Rumynin (Warwick): Unrestricted representations and Springer fibres

17th November 1998: J S Wilson (Birmingham ): Simple images of triangle groups

1st December 1998: R A Weston (Heriot-Watt): Crystals, paths and walls: vertex models and the crystal base

8th December 1998: H W Braden (Edinburgh): WDVV equations and symmetries

15th December 1998: P H Kropholler (QMW): Classifying spaces for proper group actions

19th January 1999 : G A Jones (Southampton): Braids, cacti and polynomials

26th January 1999: N Suess (Edinburgh): Bounding the rank of an elliptic curve

2nd February 1999: M Brightwell (Heriot-Watt): The geometry of the Niemeier lattices

23rd February 1999: A G T Williams (Heriot-Watt): Free subgroups in generalised triangle groups

1st March 1999: A Jacobs (Glasgow): The Gerstenhaber-Giaquinto-Schack conjecture and twisting

9th March 1999 : M Prest (Manchester): Factorisation of homomorphisms between modules

27th April 1999: L Davison (Laurentian University, Ontario): Transcendence of some classes of continued fractions and some connections to formal languages

4th May 1999 : V Bavula (Edinburgh): Generalised Weyl algebras


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