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March 1
School of Mathematics
Special Seminar: "Algebraic K-theory of
Operator Algebras: Higher Indices and
Regulators"
MARIUSZ WODZICKI, University of California
Members Seminar: "Singular Homology of
Abstract Algebraic Varieties"
VLADIMIR VOEVODSKY, MS
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Multiple Mirror
Manifolds and Topology Change in String
Theory"
BRIAN GREENE, Cornell University
March 2
School of Mathematics
Mirror Symmetry Seminar:
Symmetry"
DAVID MORRISON, MS
Institute for advanced study
'More About Mirror
PDE Seminar: "Inequalities for thejacobians of
Orientable Maps"
MARIO MILMAN, MS
Geometry Seminar: "Surfaces in R whose
Geodesic Flow is Ergodic"
VICTOR DONNAY, MS
March 3
School of Mathematics
Superrigidity Seminar: "Geometric Superrigidity
after Mok-Siu-Yeung" (continued)
ARMAND BOREL. MS
Geometry Seminar: "The Generic Spectrum for
Hyperbolic Surfaces with Cusps"
SCOTT WOLPERT. University of Maryland
Diophantine Approximation Seminar: "Baker's
Method" (continued)
ENRICO BOMBIERI, MS
March 4
School of Historical Studies
Art History Colloquium: "Teofilo Folengo,
Girolamo Romanino and the 'Quesrione della
Lingua' "
ALESSANDRO NOVA, MS
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, MS
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Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Dynamics of the Moving Contact Line"
PING SHENG, IAS
School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "Is Anyone Obligated to
Conduct Biomedical Research? Moral
Quandaries about a 'Constant Emergency'
NOAM ZOHAR, MS
March 4-5
School of Historical Studies
Mellon Colloquium: The Religious Orders and
Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Monks and Clocks: Observations on a Medieval
Time-Keeping Community" FRANZ GEORG
MAIER, MS
"Confession as a Sign of Conversion and a Means
of Control: The Franciscans and Penance between
the Middle Ages and Modernity" ADRIANO
PROSPERI, University of Pisa
" 'Popular' Art in Renaissance Italy: Early
Response to the Holy Mountain at Varallo"
ALESSANDRO NOVA, MS
"The Preaching of Friars and the Culture of
Congregations in the 13th Century" NICOLE
BERIOU, MS
"Chess and the Preachers" JOHN VAN ENGEN,
University of Notre Dame
"The Cultures and Development of the Early
Society of Jesus" JOHN O'MALLEY, Boston College
"The Corpse of Saint Teresa and the Waning of
the Renaissance" CARLOS EIRE, IAS
"Tradition and Revival in Religious Musical
Spectacle: The Florentine Confraternities in the
16th and 17th Centuries" JOHN HILL, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Bernini's Busts of No-Body and the Four Last
Things" IRVING LAVIN, MS
Chairs: GILES CONSTABLE, MS, IRVING LAVIN,
MS, JOHN O'MALLEY, Boston College
March 5
School of Mathematics
Several Complex Variables and PDE Seminar:
"The Topology of Transversally Elliptic
Operators"
GERARDO MENDOZA, Temple University