May 9 (Wed.) (colloquium talk) Prof. Shigeru Kuroda (TMU) An adventure of polynomial ring : Hilbert's 14th problem, a SAGBI basis and an automorphism June 22 (Fri.) (joint with geometry seminar) 16:00-17:00 @ 8-618 Prof. Masahiko Saito (Kobe) The Painleve properties of algebraic differential equations and minimal models June 27 (Wed.) Prof. Hiro-o Tokunaga (TMU) On local trigonal fibrations July 18 (Wed.) Prof. Satoru Fukasawa (Waseda U.) On the number of Galois points on a plane curve in positive characteristic October 10 (Wed.) Prof. Kiwamu Watanabe (Waseda U.) Classification of polarized manifolds admitting homogeneous varieties as ample divisors January 16 (Wed.) (16:00-17:00) Prof. Ryuji Tanimoto (Osaka U.) (16:00-17:00) Computational invariant theory for the one-dimensional additive group and Weitzenboeck problem January 23 (Wed.) 15:30-16:00 Mr. Yukishige Takano (TMU) A description of flipping contraction of three-dimensional toric variety with non-Q-factorial terminal singularities 16:00-16:30 Mr. Kohei Sato (TMU) Existence of crepant resolution for abelian quotient singularities by order p elements in dimension 4 16:30-17:00 Mr. Taketo Shirane (TMU) On some quadruple covering of plane 17:00-7:30 Mr. Hiroyuki Fukuchi (TMU) On security of open key ciphering by use of algebraic surface 17:30-18:00 Mr. Yuki Ito (Niigata Univ.) On the invariant rings of locally finite iterative higher derivations of a polynomial ring January 30 (Wed.) Prof. Shigeru Kuroda (TMU) Shestakov-Umirbaev reductions and Nagata's conjecture on a polynomial automorphism