Date: Thursday 27th October. <br />Speaker: Costya Shramov (Moscow). <br /> <br />Title: Rationality of quotients by p-groups. <br />Abstract: Let G be a p-group and V its complex representation. <br />I'll survey the known results on rationality and stable rationality of V/G, <br />in particular the obstructions to rationality. <br /> <br />Web: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/cheltsov/seminar/ <br /> <br />This seminar is a part of Edinburgh-Glasgow-Aberdeen seminar. <br />See http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~anc/highlandcow/