Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- List of Speakers -- List of Young Researchers -- Simultaneous Surface Resolution in Quadratic and Biquadratic Galois Extensions -- An analogue of a theorem due to Levin and Vasconcelos -- On Quillen's Local Global Principle -- Asymptotic Behaviour of Cohomology: Tameness, Supports and Associated Primes -- Conic divisor classes over a normal monoid algebra -- Multi-graded algebras associated to surface singularities -- Some Results on Subalgebras of Polynomial Algebras -- Rees algebras of the second syzygy module of the residue field of a regular local ring -- A Note on Syzygies of Projective Varieties -- A Local Global Principle for the Elementary Unimodular Vector group -- Picture invariants and the isomorphism problem for complex semisimple Lie algebras -- Geometric reductivity (Mumford's Conjecture) - revisited -- On the arithmetic rank of certain Segre products -- On a Question of Huneke-Jaffe concerning Seminormality -- Strong semistability and Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity for singular plane curves.