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

"The Japanese Army as a Bureaucracy,
1868-1945"
SHIN'ICHI KITAOKA, Rikkyo Unwersity
"War and the Rise of Nationalism in Twentieth-
Century China"
ARTHUR WALDRON, Naval War College and Brown
University
Chair: MARIUS JANSEN, Princeton University
Commentators: GEOFFREY PARKER. University of
Illinois and JOANNA WALEY-COHEN. New York
University
"The Study of War and its Limits: The Militiirische
Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805"
PETER PARET, MS
"The First World War and the Crisis in European
History"
SIR MICHAEL HOWARD, Yale University and
Director's Visitor, IAS
Chair: DENNIS SHOWALTER, Colorado College
Commentators: CARLA HESSE, IAS and MICHAEL
GEYER. University of Chicago
Concluding Remarks: JOHN W. SHY, University of
Michigan
March 15
School of Mathematics
Special Seminar: "Character Values and
Hyperelliptic Curves"
THOMAS HALES, University of Chicago
Special Geometry Seminar: "Kodaira Embedding
for Singular Varieties"
CHARLES VUONO, University of Utah
Members Seminar: "Parabolic Free Boundary
Problems"
LUIS A. CAFFARELLI, IAS
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Heavy
Quarkonium on the Lattice"
KENT HORNBOSTEL, Southern Methodist University
March 16
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, MS
PDE Seminar: "Necessary Conditions for the
Local Solvabihty of the Tangential CR
Equations"
PAULO CORDARO. MS
Institute for advanced study
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Geometry Seminar: "Compactness Results for
the Singular Yamabe Problem"
DANIEL POLLACK, University of Texas
Special Seminar: "Character Values and
Hyperelliptic Curves" (continued)
THOMAS HALES, University of Chicago
March 17
School of Mathematics
Superrigidity Seminar: "Geometric Superrigidity
after Mok-Sui-Yeung" (continued)
ARMAND BOREL. IAS
Geometry Seminar: "Hyperbolization of
Polyhedra"
RUTH CHARNEY, IAS
Diophantine Approximation Seminar: "Baker's
Method Kummer Theory"
ENRICO BOMBIERI, MS
School of Natural Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Tunneling and
Transport in Luttinger and Quantum Hall States"
MATTHEW FISHER, IBM Watson Research Center
March 18
School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar: " Reportationes: A Source for
the History of Preaching in the 13th Century"
NICOLE BERIOU, MS
School of Mathematics
Special Seminar: "Unitarity and Functoriality"
ILYA PIATETSKI-SHAPIRO, Yale University
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University
Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory
Seminar: "The Arithmetic of Dynamical
Systems"
JOE SILVERMAN, Brown University
School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "Is Science (Still) a Pubhc
Good?"
MICHEL CALLON, MS
Institute Lecture: "The Reorientation of
Strategy"
SIR MICHAEL HOWARD, Yale University and
Director's Visitor, IAS