Report for the Academic Year 1992-1993 - The Institute Libraries ...
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Applied Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Math Physics Seminar:<br />
"ScaUng <strong>The</strong>ory <strong>for</strong> Locahzation and Density of<br />
States"<br />
THOMAS SPENCER, MS<br />
School of Social Science<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "Folklore and Au<strong>the</strong>nticity:<br />
Excerpts of a History of Values in Scholarship<br />
and Practice"<br />
REGINA BENDIX, MS<br />
October 23<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
Lunchtime Seminar: "Dilaton Gravity and WZW-<br />
Models"<br />
CHIARA NAPPI, IAS<br />
October 26<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
Members Seminar: "Renormalization of Circle<br />
Mappings"<br />
EDSON DE FARIA, MS<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
<strong>The</strong>oretical Physics Seminar: "Tunneling to<br />
Monopoles in Quantum Hall Systems"<br />
A. ZEE, University oj Cali<strong>for</strong>nia, Santa Barbara<br />
October 27<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Factorization in<br />
CFT" (Verhnde-<strong>for</strong>mula)<br />
GERD FALTINGS, MS<br />
PDE Seminar: "<strong>The</strong> Cauchy Problem <strong>for</strong><br />
Generalized Porous Medium Equations"<br />
PANAGIOTA DASKALOPOULOS. MS<br />
Scalar and Mean Curvature Seminar: "<strong>The</strong> Ricci<br />
Flow on R (<strong>the</strong> limiting case <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> porous<br />
medium equation)"<br />
LANG-FANG WU, Princeton University<br />
October 28<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
Superrigidity Seminar: "Harmonic Maps and<br />
Non-archimedean Superrigidity" (continued)<br />
RICHARD SCHOEN, IAS<br />
Diophantine Approximation Seminar: "New<br />
Effective Methods <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Thue Equation"<br />
(continued)<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERI. MS<br />
<strong>Institute</strong> <strong>for</strong> advanced study<br />
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Geometry Seminar: "Kahler-Einstein Metrics and<br />
Mum<strong>for</strong>d Stability"<br />
GANG TIAN. Courant <strong>Institute</strong><br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Generalized<br />
Coherent Potential Approximation — <strong>The</strong>ory of<br />
Quasi Modes in Dense Random Media"<br />
PING SHENG, IAS<br />
October 29<br />
School of Historical Studies<br />
Art History Colloquium: "<strong>The</strong> Early Islamic<br />
Monuments of Jerusalem: Reflections on a Recent<br />
Publication"<br />
MYRIAM ROSEN-AYALON, MS<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma<br />
Models, 11"<br />
EDWARD WITTEN, MS<br />
Geometric Heat Flows Seminar: "A Survey of<br />
Geometric Flows" (continued)<br />
RICHARD HAMILTON. MS<br />
Ricci Flow Seminar: "Results and Conjectures in<br />
<strong>the</strong> Ricci Flow" (continued)<br />
RICHARD HAMILTON, IAS<br />
Applied Ma<strong>the</strong>matics-Math Physics Seminar:<br />
"Periodic Solutions of Non-linear Wave and<br />
Schroedinger Equations"<br />
I.M. SIGAL, MS<br />
School of Social Science<br />
Science Studies Seminar: Constructionism and<br />
Networks, Discussion of Bruno Latour, "Give<br />
Me a Laboratory"; Steven Shapin, "Pump and<br />
Circumstance"; and Sergio Sismondo, "Some<br />
Social Constructions"<br />
KARIN KNORR-CETINA, STEPHEN COLE, JAMES<br />
RULE, MARIANNE DE LAET. MS<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "Arias of Ambiguity:<br />
Intercession and Social Status in Islamic Cairo"<br />
SHAUN MARMON, MS<br />
October 30<br />
Faculty Lecture: "Revolutions in Astronomy"<br />
FREEMAN DYSON, IAS
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