Proceedings of the 21st Summer Research Institute, Australian Mathematical Society held at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, January 12February 6, 1981Verso of t.p.

Includes bibliographies.

Homology representations of finite groups of Lie type ; Matrix correlation functions ; Some aspects of singular integral equations a numerical analyst's viewpoint ; Some examples of algebraic surfaces ; Lie groups and combinatorics ; Paper folding, spacefilling curves and RudinShapiro sequences ; Nearrings: what they are and what they are good for ; The optimal recovery of functions ; Recent bounds for codes, sphere packings and related problems obtained by linear programming and other methods ; Three aspects of the statistics of directions ; Bifurcation and catastrophe theory ; Euclid with an unfamiliar ring ; Absolute retracts, relatively injective simple objects and BrownMcCoy radicals ; A comparison theorem and other formulae in the character ring of a finite group of Lie type ; On commutative group algebras ; Orthogonal systems of polynomials over a finite field with coefficients in a subfield ; A lattice colouring problem ; Substitution automata, functional equations and "functions algebraic over a finite field" ; The formal power series approach to elementary catastrophe theory ; On Central Extensions of Rational Points of Algebraic Groups ; Ideals and stability ; Singular integrals on bounded symmetric domains. II ; A new class of convex bodies ; Geometry of Banach spaces and convex subsets of bf C^2 ; FEED Forms Entry Editor ; Comparison of Palaeomagnetic Records from Lake Sediments ; Mathematics and phylogeny ; Equivalence between distance functions ; The Rose of Intersections ; Goodnessoffit and outlier detection procedures for samples from Fisher's distribution on the sphere ; Enhancements to MDOS ; TwoWay Table Analysis of Physiological Data ; Production and Reproduction of Statistical Software for Z80 Microprocessors C W Curtis and G I Lehrer ; R Delbourgo ; David Elliott ; F Hirzebruch ; I G Macdonald ; Michel Mendes France ; Gunter Pilz ; T J Rivlin ; N J A Sloane ; Geoffrey S Watson ; E C Zeeman ; Desmond FearnleySander ; B J Gardner ; R B Howlett and G I Lehrer ; G Karpilovsky ; Rex Matthews ; C J Smyth ; A J van der Poorten ; Michael A B Deakin ; Vinay V Deodhar ; William Meersman ; Josephine Mitchell ; Werner Ricker ; David Yost ; David Broadfoot ; R M Clark ; Roland Corluy ; Roland Corluy and William Meersman ; P J Dichomides ; N I Fisher ; Leonard Hamey ; Don McNeil ; B P Murphy