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A local study of embeddings of complexity one ; Constructive invariant theory ; On global degree bounds for invariants ; On invariant theory of finite groups ; Combinatorics related to orbit closures of symmetric subgroups in flag varieties ; Deformation of symmetric functions and the rational Steenrod algebra ; Cohomology with Grosshans graded coefficients ; The module structure of a group action on a polynomial ring: examples, generalizations, and applications ; An invariant theoretic description of the primitive elements of the mod p cohomology of a finite loop space which are annihilated by Steenrod operations ; On Noether's and Weyl's bound in positive characteristic ; Comparing the depths of rings of invariants ; Moment polytopes of nilpotent orbit closures ; dimension and isomorphism of simple modules ; and variations on the theme of J. Chipalkatti ; Compressions of group actions ; Commutativity of weakly commutative Riemannian homogeneous spaces ; Group actions and quotients for compact Lie groups and algebraic groups ; Notes on invariant rings of divided powers ; Classical covariants and modular invariants ; Classification of nearly closed orbits for the action of semisimple complex linear groups on the projective spaces ; Convex cones and SAGBI bases of permutation invariants ; Some problems in invariant theory ; The Peterson conjecture for algebras of invariants ; Weakly symmetric and weakly commutative spaces