International Conference on Combinatorial and Computational Algebra, held at the University of Hong Kong.

Includes bibliographical references.

Deformations and liftings of representations ; Embeddings of relatively free groups into finitely presented groups ; Fixed point ratios, character ratios, and Cayley graphs ; GrobnerShirshov bases and composition lemma for associative conformal algebras: an example ; Derivations in nearring theory ; Automorphic orbits of elements of free algebras with the NielsenSchreier property ; Universal central extensions of the matrix Lie superalgebras rm sl(m,n,A) ; The useful world of onesided distributive systems ; On the structure of conformal algebras ; Unipotent Jacobian matrices and univalent maps ; Automorphisms and coordinates of polynomial algebras ; On Bass' inverse degree approach to the Jacobian conjecture and exponential automorphisms ; A note on possible counterexamples to the AbhyankarSathaye conjecture constructed by Shpilrain and Yu ; Algorithms for polynomials in two variables ; Peak reduction technique in commutative algebra: a survey ; Reversion, trees, and the Jacobian conjecture ; Various constructions of good codes ; Combinatorics and algebra: a medley of problems? A medley of techniques? Eli Aljadeff and Andy R Magid ; A Yu Olshanskii and M V Sapir ; Aner Shalev ; L A Bokut Y Fong and WF Ke ; Y Fong ; Alexander A Mikhalev and JieTai Yu ; A V Mikhalev and I A Pinchuk ; Gunter F Pilz ; Efim Zelmanov ; L Andrew Campbell ; Vesselin Drensky and JieTai Yu ; Arno van den Essen ; Arno van den Essen and Peter van Rossum ; Walter D Neumann and Penelope G Wightwick ; Vladimir Shpilrain and JieTai Yu ; David Wright ; WenChing Winnie Li ; ManKeung Siu