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School of Natural Sciences
Lunchtime Seminar: "Chiral Perturbarion Theory
for Heavy Mesons"
MARK WISE, California Institute of Technology
March 8
School of Mathematics
Marston Morse Memorial Lecture: "The
Geometry of the Painleve Equation"
NIGEL J. HITCHIN, University of Warwick , U.K.
Special PDE Seminar: "Numerical Simulation of
Waves in Fluid Saturated Porous Media"
J. SANTOS, Purdue University
March 9
School of Mathematics
Mirror Symmetry Seminar: "Kaehler Cones and
the Secondary Fan"
DAVID MORRISON, IAS
PDE Seminar: "Asymptotic Behavior of
Solutions of Certain Elliptic Equations Involving
Critical Nonlinear Growth"
ZHENG-CHAO HAN, MS
Geometry Seminar: "On Singularities of the Heat
Flow for Harmonic Maps from Surfaces into
Spheres"
JIE QING, IAS
March 10
School of Mathematics
Superrigidity Seminar: "Geometric Superrigidity
after Mok-Siu-Yeung" (continued)
ARMAND BOREL, MS
Marston Morse Memorial Lecture: "The
Geometry of the Painleve Equation"
NIGEL J. HITCHIN, University of Warwick, U.K.
March 1
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School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar: "Medieval World Maps and
Experience: The Reception of the Travel Reports
about Asia in Cartography from the 13th to the
15th Century"
INGRID BAUMGARTNER, IAS
School of Mathematics
Marston Morse Memorial Lecture: "The
Geometry of the PairJeve Equation"
NIGEL J. HITCHIN, University of Warwick, U.K.
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Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Filamentation and Undulation of Self-focused
Laser Beams in Liquid Crystals"
DAVID MURAKI, Princeton University
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University
Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory
Seminar: "The Arithmetic of Fermat Curves"
WILLIAM MC CAELUM, University of Arizona
Special Seminar: "The Method of Chabauty and
Coleman"
WILLIAM MC CAELUM. University of Arizona
Mellon Seminars in Science and Society:
"What Scientists Do"
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, Chair, IAS, KARIN KNORR
CETINA. Speaker, IAS, PIET HUT and ROBERT
LANGLANDS, Discussants, IAS
School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "Reading the Palimpsest of
Inquiry: Notes and Queries and the History of
British Social Anthropology"
GEORGE STOCKING, IAS
March 12
School of Social Science
Science Studies Seminar: Prediction and Theory
Evaluation, Discussion of Stephen Brush,
"Prediction and Theory Evaluation in the Social
Sciences"; Brush, "The Role of Empirical Tests
in the Evaluation of Theories in Physical
Science"; and James Rule, "Relative Deprivation
and Related Psychological Theories"
JAMES RULE and STEPHEN BRUSH, IAS
March 12-13
School of Historical Studies
The History of War as Part of General History
Symposium:
"The Cultural Approach to the History of War"
JOHN W. SHY, University of Michigan
"The American Military and the Principle of
Civilian Control from McClellan to Powell"
RUSSELL F WEIGLEY, Temple University
Chair: HENRY S. BAUSUM
Commentators: CHARLES ROYSTER, Louisiana State
University and EMILY ROSENBERG, Macalester
College