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This two-volume book contains papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. The articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. Proceedings of earlier 'Groups St Andrews' conferences have had a major impact on the development of group theory and these volumes should be equally important. This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. The articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. Proceedings of earlier 'Groups St Andrews' conferences have had a major impact on the development of group theory and these volumes should be equally important. This two-volume book contains selected papers from the international conference 'Groups St Andrews 1997 in Bath'. The articles cover a wide spectrum of modern group theory. There are articles based on lecture courses given by five main speakers together with refereed survey and research articles contributed by other conference participants. Proceedings of earlier 'Groups St Andrews' conferences have had a major impact on the development of group theory and these volumes should be equally important. 1. Galois groups through invariant relations J. A. Hulpke; 2. Construction of Co3. An example of the use of an integrated system for computational group theory J. A. Hulpke and S. A. Linton; 3. Embedding some recursively presented groups D. L. Johnson; 4. The Dedekind–Frobenius group determinant: new life in an old problem K. W. Johnson; 5. Group characters and pi-sharpness K. W. Johnson and E. Poimenidou; 6. Permutation group algorithms via black box recognition algorithms W. M. Kantor and A. Seress; 7. Nonabelian tensor products of groups: the commutator connection L.-C. Kappe; 8. Simple subalgebras of generalized Witt algebras of characteristic zero N. Kawamoto; 9. Applications of the Baker–Hausdorff formula in the theory of finite p-groups E. I. Khukhro; 10. Generalizations of the restricted Burnside problem for groups with automorphisms E. I. Khukhro; 11. The Sigmam-conjecture for a class of metabelian groups D. H. Kochloukova; 12. Rings with periodic groups of units II J. Krempa; 13. Some free-by-cyclic groups I. J. Leary, G. A. Niblo and D. T. Wise; 14. The residually weakly primitive geometries of the Suzuki simple group Sz(8) D. Leemans; 15. Semigroup identities and Engel groups P. Longobardi and M. Maj; 16. Groups whose elements have given orders V. D. Mazurov and W. J. Shi; 17. The Burnside groups and small cancellation theory J. P. McCammond; 18. Solvable Engel groups with nilpotent normal closures R. F. Morse; 19. Nilpotent injectors in finite groups A. Neumann; 20. Some groups with right Engel elements W. Nickel; 21. The growth of finite subgroups in p-groups A. Yu. Ol'shanskii; 22. Symplectic amalgams and extremal subgroups C. W. Parker and P. Rowley; 23. Primitive prime divisor elements in finite classical groups C. E. Praeger; 24. On the classification of generalized Hamiltonian groups D. M. Reboli; 25. Permutability properties of subgroups D. J. S. Robinson; 26. When Schreier transversals grow wild A. Rosemann; 27. Probabilistic group theory A. Shalev; 28. Combinatorial methods: from groups to polynomial algebras V. Shpilrain; 29. Formal languages and the word problem for groups I. A. Stewart and R. M. Thomas; 30. Periodic cohomology and free and proper actions on