A joint research project of algebraists from the universities of Antwerp, Biele feld, Essen, Leeds, Paris VI and Trondheim on "Invariants and Representations of Algebras" has been supported from 1991 to 1997 by the European Union programmes "Science" and "Human Capital and Mobility", it was coordinated by Mme M. -P. Malliavin (Paris VI). Later, algebraists from the universities of Edinburgh, Ioannina, Murcia and Torun joined the collaboration. This network is now coordinated by C. M. Ringel (Bielefeld). It has received funds from the European Commission in order to organize four conferences as part of the pro gramme "Training and Mobility of Researchers", to be held during the period 1997-1999 at Essen, Murcia, Bielefeld and Ioannina. The first Euroconference of this series took place at the University of Essen, April 1-4, 1997. It was devoted to "Computational Methods for Representations of Groups and Algebras" . The organizers were P. Draxler (Bielefeld) and G. Michler (Essen). This volume collects most of the material presented at the conference. There had been an additional introductory lecture by H. Gollan; it is not included here, since its contents is available in the lecture notes: P. Fleischmann, G. O. Michler, P. Roelse, J. Rosenboom, R. Staszewski, C. Wagner, M. Weller, "Linear algebra over small finite fields on parallel machines", Vorlesungen Fachbereich Math. Univ. Essen, 23 (1995). Together with these notes, this volume will provide a survey on the present state of art.

Inhalt
I Introductory Articles.- 1 Classification Problems in the Representation Theory of Finite-Dimensional Algebras.- 2 Noncommutative Gröbner Bases, and Projective Resolutions.- 3 Construction of Finite Matrix Groups.- II Keynote Articles.- 4 Derived Tubularity: a Computational Approach.- 5 Problems in the Calculation of Group Cohomology.- 6 On a Tensor Category for the Exceptional Lie Groups.- 7 Non-Commutative Gröbner Bases and Anick's Resolution.- 8 A new Existence Proof of Janko's Simple Group J4.- 9 The Normalization: a new Algorithm, Implementation and Comparisons.- 10 A Computer Algebra Approach to sheaves over Weighted Projective Lines.- 11 Open Problems in the Theory of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.- 12 Relative Trace Ideals and Cohen Macaulay Quotients.- 13 On Sims' Presentation for Lyons' Simple Group.- 14 A Presentation for the Lyons Simple Group.- 15 Reduction of Weakly Definite Unit Forms.- 16 Decision Problems in Finitely Presented Groups.- 17 Some Algorithms in Invariant Theory of Finite Groups.- 18 Coxeter Transformations associated with Finite Dimensional Algebras.- 19 The 2-Modular Decomposition Numbers of Co2.- 20 Bimodule and Matrix Problems.