Report for the Academic Year 1992-1993 - The Institute Libraries ...

January 29
School of Social Science
Science Studies Seminar: Testing Hypotheses
about the History of Science, Discussion of
Rachel Laudan, "Good History and the Good of
History"; Rachel Laudan, Arthur Donovan and
Larry Laudan, "A Repository for More than
Anecdote or Chronology: The Study of Science
as the Science of Science"; and Frank SuUoway,
"The 'Science' of Science"
RACHEL LAUDAN, IAS
February 1
School of Mathematics
Members Seminar: "Complex Structures on S' x
S^"
ZHENBO QIN, MS
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Semmar: "Quark Mass
Matrix Models"
NATHAN SEIBERG, Rutgers University
February 2
School of Mathematics
Mirror Symmetry Seminar: "Calabi-Yau
Hypersurfaces in Toric Varieties"
DAVID MORRISON, MS
PDE Seminar; "High Frequency Asymptotics for
Control of PDE"
CLAUDE BARDOS, Universile de Paris VII
Geometry Seminar: "Minimal Lagrangian
Surfaces in Kahler-Einstein Surfaces"
YNG-ING LEE, MS
February 3
School of Mathematics
Superrigidity Seminar: "Harmonic Map Theory"
(continued)
RICHARD SCHOEN, MS
Geometry Seminar: "Gauge Theory on
Punctured Riemann Surfaces"
JONATHAN PORITZ, MS
Diophantine Approximation Seminar: "Baker's
Method" (continued)
ENRICO BOMBIERI, IAS
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School of Natural Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Entropic Forces in
Fluid Membranes"
MARK GOULIAN, Universily of California , Santa
Barbara
February 4
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, MS
Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Singular Solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson
Equations"
GEORGE MAJDA, MS
Special Seminar: "A Candidate for Conformal
Field Theory in Higher Dimensions and On
Periodicity of the Standard Map"
MAXIM KONTSEVICH, IAS
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University
Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory
Seminar: "A Degenerate Principal Series for G,"
R. HOWE, Yale Uniuersity
School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "Bourgeois Virtue"
DONALD MCCLOSKEY, University of Iowa
February 5
School of Mathematics
Several Complex Variables and PDE:
"CR-embeddings and Deformations of Surface
Singularities"
CHARLES EPSTEIN, University of Pennsylvania
School of Natural Sciences
Lunchtime Seminar: "Semilocal Strings and
Cosmology"
MARTIN BUCHER, MS
February 8
School of Mathematics
Members Seminar: "Vassiliev Invariants of
Knots"
MAXIM KONTSEVICH, MS
February 9
School of Mathematics
Mirror Symmetry Seminar: "Resolving
Singularities of Calabi-Yau Hypersurfaces"
DAVID MORRISON, MS