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

March 19
School of Mathematics
Special Seminar: "Character Values and
Hyperelliptic Curves" (conclusion)
THOMAS HALES, University of Chicago
School of Natural Sciences
Lunchtime Seminar: "Model for the Normal State
of CuO Superconductors"
FRANK WILCZEK, MS
March 23
School of Mathematics
Mirror Symmetry Seminar: "Mirror Symmetry
for K3 Surfaces"
DAVID MORRISON, MS
PDE Seminar: "The Diameter and Location of
the First Nodal Line of a Convex Planar Domain"
DAVID JERISON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geometry Seminar: "A Survey of Harmonic
Morphisms"
VIJAY PARMAR, MS
Special PDE Seminar: "Approximating
Degenerate Quasilinear Parabolic Equations"
MICHAEL CRANDALL, Uniuersity of California,
Santa Barbara
March 24
School of Mathematics
Diophantine Approximation Seminar: "Baker's
Method — Zero Estimates on Group Varieties"
ENRICO BOMBIERI, MS
School of Historical Studies
Islamic Seminar
OLEG GRABAR and MOHAMMAD AL-ASAD, MS
March 25
School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar: "The Discovery of the Middle
East by Thirteenth Century Pilgrims"
ARYEH GRABOIS, IAS
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, IAS
Geometry Seminar: "Kahler-Einstein Metrics on
Quasi-projective Manifolds"
ST. YAU, Harvard University
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School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "Science in a Pluralistic
World"
PIET HUT, MS
Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Zero Relaxation Limit for Conservation Laws"
GUI-QIANG CHEN, University of Chicago
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University
Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory Seminar
"Repartition of Cubic Roots Mod p and the 7
Cubes Problem"
OLIVIER RAMARE, MS
March 26
School of Social Science
Science Studies Seminar: History of Modern
Economics, Discussion of Yuval Yonay, "From
Marshall to Samuelson: The Great Watershed in
Economic Science," "The Sovereignty of
Consumers in Science," and "The Theory of
Value and the Value of Theory"
YUVAL YONAY. IAS
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Some
Developments Related to String
Phenomenology"
VADIM KAPLUNOVSKY, University of Texas
March 29
School of Mathematics
Members Seminar: "Eisenstein Cohomology and
the p-adic Class Number Formula"
HARTMUT MAENNEL, MS
School of Mathematics
Special PDE Seminar: "Transitional One-
dimensional Hydrodynamic Flow with a Mobile
Bed"
PABLOJACOVKIS, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "A New Approach
to the Green-Schwarz Superstring"
NATHAN BERKOVITS, King's College, London
March 30
School of Mathematics
PDE Seminar: "Translating Solutions of the
Mean Curvature Flow"
STEVEN ALTSCHULER. IAS