edited by K P Shum (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Z X Wan (Chinese Academy of Science, P R China), & J-P Zhang (Peking University, P R China)

This is the proceedings of the ICM2002 Satellite Conference on Algebras. Over 175 participants attended the meeting. The opening ceremony included an address by R Gonchidorazh, former vice-president of the Mongolian Republic in Ulaanbaatar. The topics covered at the conference included general algebras, semigroups, groups, rings, hopf algebras, modules, codes, languages, automation theory, graphs, fuzzy algebras and applications.

• On Normalized Table Algebras Generated by a Faithful Non-Real Element of Degree 3 (Z Arad & G-Chen)
• Graph Semigroups (V Dlab & T Pospíchal)
• Finite Groups with c-Normal and f-Hypercentral Subgroups (W-B Guo & KP Shum)
• Moor-Penrose Generalized Inverses of Matrices Over Division Rings (Z-X Wan)
• M-Solid Pseudovarieties and Galois Connections (K Denecke & B Pibaljommee)
• Indecomposable Decompositions of CS-Modules (JL Gomez Pardo & PA Guil Asensio)
• Hereditary Rings, QF2 Rings and Rings of Finite Representation Type (CR Hajarnavis)
• Solid Burst Error Detecting Cyclic Codes (S Jain)
• On the Homology Bifunctors Over Semimodules (XT Nguyen)
• Some Problems and Conjectures in Modular Representations (J-P Zhang)
• and other papers