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CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS 124 Azumaya Algebras~ Actions~ and Modules Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Goro Azumaya's Seventieth Birthday http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/124 Contemporary Mathematics Standing orders are accepted for Contemporary Mathematics as well as other book series published by the American Mathematical Society. If you are interested in receiving purchasing information on each new volume in the Contemporary Mathematics series as it is published, please write or call the American Mathematical Society. Customer Services American Mathematical Society Post Office Box 6248 Providence, Rhode Island 02940-6248 1-800-321-4AMS (321-4267) Titles in This Series Volume 1 Markov random fields and their 13 Algebraists' homage: Papers in applications, Ross Kindermann and ring theory and related topics, J. Laurie Snell S. A. Amitsur, D. J. Saltman, and 2 Proceedings of the conference on G. B. 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