Algebra Seminars 1999-2000


19th October 1999 : N D Gilbert (Heriot-Watt): Homology and computation of Peiffer products

26th October 1999 : B Schroers (Edinburgh): Fourier transform and the Verlinde formula for the quantum double of a finite group

2nd November 1999 : J Brodzki (Exeter): The p-adic group GL(n) and cyclic homology

9th November 1999: J Harlander (Frankfurt): Finiteness properties for metabelian groups

18th November 1999: J Strooker (Utrecht): Auslander's invariants and canonical elements

23rd November 1999: A Cox (City University): Infinitesimal representations of Schur algebras

7th December 1999: A J Macintyre (Edinburgh): Difference equations and the Frobenius automorphism

1st February 2000: J Howie (Heriot-Watt): Killing free products of groups

8th February 2000: I Araujo (St. Andrews): Finite presentability of semigroup constructions

15th February 2000: I J Leary (Southampton): Eilenberg-Ganea done properly

22nd February 2000 : L O'Carroll (Edinburgh): Splitting syzygy modules

29th February 2000: A W Mason (Glasgow): Nagao's theorem

25th April 2000: D Parashar (Robert Gordon University): Coloured quantum deformations

2nd May 2000: M O'Neill (Glasgow): Krull dimension of conformal sl(2) enveloping algebras

9th May 2000: A G T Williams (Heriot-Watt): Arithmeticity of orbifold generalised triangle groups

16th May 2000: M P F du Sautoy (Cambridge): p-groups, PORC, periodicity and zeta functions


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