Edinburgh Algebra Seminars 03-04

16th October 2007:	N Guay (Edinburgh), Algebras and Lie algebras of double affine type
	J Howie (Heriot-Watt), Decision problems for residually free groups
23rd October 2007:	L Smith (Goettingen/Sheffield), On Modular Analogs of Theorems of Chevalley, Springer, and Steinberg concerning Algebras of Coinvariants
	M Hamilton (Glasgow), Finiteness Conditions in Group Cohomology
6th November 2007:	J Guilhot (Aberdeen), On the lowest two-sided cell in affine Weyl group
	A Duncan (Newcastle), Automorphisms of Partially Commutative Groups
20th November 2007:	O Bogopolski (Dortmund), The conjugacy problem for some extensions of groups
	R Wilson (Queen Mary), Compact real forms of exceptional Lie algebras
4th December 2007:	J Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh), A geometric construction of exceptional Lie algebras
	R Weidmann (Heriot-Watt), Epimorphisms from finitely presented groups to hyperbolic groups
18th December 2007:	K Kalorkoti (Edinburgh), A finitely presented group with almost solvable conjugacy problem
	N Gilbert (Heriot-Watt), Zappa-Szep products of semigroups
15th January 200:	U Kraehmer (Glasgow), On the Hochschild and cyclic homology of quantum homogeneous spaces
	B Muehlherr (Brussels), Groups with root group data
29th January 2008:	J Elias (Barcelona), Structure theorems, classification, and rationality of the Poincaré series of certain Gorenstein ideals
	L Richard (Edinburgh), Quantum tori and Morita equivalence
12th February 2008:	Gergely Berczi (Edinburgh), Multidegrees of singularities and nonreductive quotients
	Iain Gordon (Edinburgh), Real Schubert calculus: the Shapiro-Shapiro conjecture and Calogero-Moser space
19th February 2008:	Ivan Losev (Moscow), Quantized symplectic actions on W-algebras
26th February 2008:	Nik Ruskuc (St Andrews), Some interesting properties of direct products of groups, semigroups and other algebraic structures
	Walter Mazorchuk (Glasgow), Categorical point of view on representations of S_n
11th March 2008:	Agata Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh), Some results on algebras with quadratic growth
	Stefan Kolb (Edinburgh), Centres of coideal subalgebras and representations of the affine braid group
15th April 2008:	Sue Sierra (Michigan), The classification of birationally commutative projective surfaces (preliminary report)
	Thorsten Weist (Wuppertal) , Localization in Kronecker moduli spaces and applications
29th April 2008:	Tom Lenagan (Edinburgh), Totally positive matrices
	Toby Stafford (Manchester), Cherednik algebras and differential operators on symmetric spaces
12th May 2008:	Tom Nevins (Illinois), Mirabolic Langlands duality and the Quantum Calogero-Moser system
13th June 2008:	Robin Cockett (Calgary), Reversible computation and inverse categories
	Jens Funke (Durham), Special cohomology classes arising from the Weil representation
	B Sury (Bangalore), The special unitary group of a division algebra