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School of Historical Studies
Islamic Seminar
ANDRAS HAMORI, Princeton Uniuersity
School of Natural Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Statics and
Dynamics of Polymer Brushes"
JOHN MARKO, Cornell University
December 10
School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar: "Muslim Women in Law and
Society: Attitudes to Economic Activity"
MAYA SHATZMILLER, IAS
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Moduli
Spaces and Mirror Symmetry"
DAVID MORRISON, MS
Geometric Heat Flows Seminar: "A Survey of
Geometric Flows" (continued)
RICHARD HAMILTON, MS
Ricci Flow Seminar: "Results and Conjectures in
the Ricci Flow" (continued)
RICHARD HAMILTON, IAS
Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Spectral Gap and Logarithmic Sobolev
Inequality for Glauber and Kawasaki Dynamics"
HT. YAU, Courant Institute
School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "From Marshall to
Samuelson: The Great Watershed in Economic
Science"
YUVAL YONAY, MS
December 11
"Realism and Idealism in American Diplomacy
The Origins: Homage to Felix Gilbert"
BERNARD BAILYN, Harvard University
School of Mathematics
Special Geometry Seminar: "Lagrangian
Intersections, Fundamental Group, and Pseudo-
isotopics"
YAKOV ELIASHBERG, Stanford University
Institute for advanced study
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School of Social Science
Science Studies Seminar: The Study of
Laboratories, Discussion of Karin Knorr-Cetina,
"The Couch, the Cathedral, and the Laboratory";
Stefan Hirschauer, "The Manufacture of Bodies
in Surgery"; and Thomas Kuhn, "The Trouble
with the Historical Philosophy of Science"
KARIN KNORR-CETINA, IAS
December 12
School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar: "Was there a Medieval Middle
Class? Mediocres in the Middle Ages"
GILES CONSTABLE, MS
"Between God and Men: Formal Construction of
Woman's Voice in Medieval Christianity"
THOMAS HEAD, MS
"The Political Impact of Heresy and Its
Persecution in Late Medieval Bohemia"
ALEXANDER PATSCHOVSKY, MS
December 14
School of Mathematics
Members Seminar: "Approaches to Algebraic
Conformal Field Theory and Moonshine"
JAMES LEPOWSKY, IAS
December 15
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, MS
December 16
School of Mathematics
Special Number Theory Seminar: "The Riemann
Zeta Quantum Analogy"
M. BERRY, Department of Physics, Bristol, England
Superrigidity Seminar: "Classification of Rank 2
Flat Bundles Over Projective Varieties"
KEVIN CORLETTE, MS
Diophantine Approximation Seminar: "New
Effective Methods for the Thue Equation"
(continued)
ENRICO BOMBIERI, MS