Official Talks of project members and cooperating staff:

• ISSAC 96, Zurich, Switzerland (July 1996): Franz Binder: Fast Computations in the Lattice of Polynomial Rational Function Fields.
• Conference on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, Szeged (July 1996): Erhard Aichinger: Strictly 1-Affine Complete -Groups.
• University of Tartu, Estonia (October 2, 1996, invited by Prof.\ Dr. Kalle Kaarli): Erhard Aichinger: On Some Classes of Affine Complete Groups.
• University of Hobart, Tasmania (February 1997, invited by Prof. R. Lidl): Günter Pilz: How to solve equations.
• University of Hong Kong (February 1997, invited by J. Yu): Günter Pilz: Nearrings: Theory, Applications, Computations.
• Workshop on General Algebra (June 1997), Klagenfurt, Austria:
  • Erhard Aichinger: Local Polynomial Functions and Affine Completeness;
  • Franz Binder: The Structure of Small Nearrings with Identity;
  • Tim Boykett, Christof Nöbauer: Existence Results on Small Nearrings with Identity;
  • Jürgen Ecker: Groups with Few Polynomial Functions;
  • Roland Eggetsberger: On Decoding Non-Linear Planar-Nearring Codes.
• Conference on Nearrings and Nearfields, Stellenbosch, South Africa (July 1997):
  • Günter Pilz (invited lecture): Applications of Nearrings.
  • Erhard Aichinger: Right Distributive Algebras;
  • Franz Binder: Computing the Structure of Finite Nearrings;
  • Jürgen Ecker: The Size of for Groups of Nilpotency Class 2;
  • Roland Eggetsberger: On Decoding Non-Linear Planar-Nearring Codes;
  • Peter Mayr: On Some Properties of Linear Codes from Planar Nearrings;
  • Christof Nöbauer: A Class of Groups which cannot be the additive groups of nearrings with identity;
  • E. Aichinger, F. Binder, J. Ecker, R. Eggetsberger, P. Mayr, Ch. Nöbauer: Presentation of SONATA.
• Summer School on General Algebra and Ordered Sets (September 1997), Strbské Pleso, Slovakia: Erhard Aichinger: Right Distributive Algebras.
• Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy: (September 9, 1997, at the Seminario Matematico di Brescia):
  • Erhard Aichinger: Quasianelli planari che sono anelli e altri quasianelli che soddisfano identitá sorprendenti;
  • Peter Mayr: From Parma to Brescia - A computer aided investigation of new ideas in nearring generated geometries.
  • Günter Pilz: Computational Nearring Theory.
• 14. Österreichischer Mathematikerkongress (September 1997), Salzburg:
  • Franz Binder: Permutable Polynomials over Fields of Characteristic 0;
  • Erhard Aichinger: On Affine Complete Groups.