The proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Invariant Theory ... held at the 830th meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Denton, TexasT.p. verso.

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Equivariant completions of affine varieties with group action ; Analytic questions in geometric invariant theory ; Equivariant intersection cohomology a survey ; Invariants of affine group schemes ; The number of invariants ; The canonical module of a ring of invariants ; On licci ideals ; Reduced normal cones are domains ; Prime ideals and group actions in noncommutative algebras ; Invariant theory and special functions ; Interconnections between symplectic and orthogonal characters ; A combinatorial theory for rational actions of rm GL_n ; Pieri's formulas for classical groups ; Submodules of symmetric powers of the natural module for rm GL_n ; A new proof of old character formulas ; Resolutions of representations ; JacobiTrudi and Giambelli identities in characteristicfree form ; Onedimensional formal group actions ; Quasiprojective orbit spaces for linear algebraic group actions ; Irreducible components of the nullcone ; On the orbits of symmetric spaces under the action of parabolic subgroups ; Towards a standard monomial theory for exceptional groups ; An extension of KazhdanLusztig theory ; Fonctorialite des polynomes de Schubert Andy R Magid ; Amnon Neeman ; Roy Joshua ; Joseph P Brennan ; George R Kempf ; Melvin Hochster ; Bernd Ulrich ; Craig Huneke Aron Simis and Wolmer Vasconcelos ; Susan Montgomery ; Robert A Gustafson ; Robert A Proctor ; John R Stembridge ; Jerzy Weyman ; Stephen Doty ; Henning Haahr Andersen ; Kaan Akin ; David A Buchsbaum ; Robert M Fossum ; A Fauntleroy ; R W Richardson ; A G Helminck ; V Lakshmibai and K N Rajeswari ; Vinay V Deodhar ; A Lascoux and MP Schutzenberger