Probability on Algebraic Structures

This volume presents results from an AMS Special Session held on the topic in Gainesville, Florida, USA. Papers included are written by an international group of specialists who offer a cross-section of work in the field. In addition there are two expository papers that provide an avenue for non-specialists to comprehend problems in this area. The breadth of research in this area is evident by the variety of articles presented in the volume. Results concern probability on Lie groups and general locally compact groups. Generalizations of groups appear as hypergroups, abstract semigroups, and semigroups of matrices. Work on symmetric cones is included. Lastly, there are a number of articles on progress in constructing stochastic processes on quantum groups.