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

Geometry Seminar: "Invariant Properties for
Actions of Lie Groups and Their Discrete
Subgroups"
ALESSANDRA lOZZI, MS
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "A New Approach
to the Green-Schwarz Superstring"
NATHAN BERKOVITS, Kings College, London
March 31
School of Mathematics
Superrigidity Seminar: "Finite Energy
Retractions of Locally Symmetric Manifolds"
LESLIE SAFER, MS
Geometry Seminar: "The Structure of Branch
Points of Least Area Surfaces"
MARIO MICALLEF, University of Warwick , U.K.
School of Natural Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar: "To Wet or Not to
Wet — Whether to be First Order or Critical?
MICHAEL E. FISHER. Institute of Physical Science and
Technology, University of Maryland
April 1
School of Historical Studies
Art History Colloquium: "Sassanian Influence on
Early Medieval Bulgarian Art"
OKSANA MINAEVA, IAS
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar:
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, IAS
Institute for advanced study
'Sigma
Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Chaotic Dynamics in Nearly Integrable PDE's"
YANGUANG LI, Princeton University
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University
Harmonic Analysis and Number Theory Seminar
A. ATKIN, University of Illinois at Chicago
School of Natural Sciences
Special Theoretical Physics Seminar; "Some
Questions of Flavor in Supersymmetry"
MICHAEL DINE, University of California, Santa Cruz
School of Social Science
Luncheon Seminar: "American Intellectuals and
Civil Rights: The White Liberal Mainstream,
1954-1960"
WALTER JACKSON, MS
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April 2-3
A Celebration of Mathematics:
"Incompressible Transformations that Minimize
Momentum"
LUIS CAFFARELLI, MS
"Poly logarithms"
PIERRE R. DELIGNE, MS
"The Verlinde Algebra and the Cohomology of
the Grassmannian"
EDWARD WITTEN, IAS
"Space, Time, Mathematics"
G. DANIEL MOSTOW, Yale University
"Mathematics — From Servant to Partner"
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, MS
"Science — From Intellectual Quest to Social
Contribution"
FRANK PRESS, President, National Academy of
Sciences
April 5
School of Mathematics
Special Mirror Symmetry Seminar: "Quantum
Cohomology Rings"
VICTOR BATYREV, MSRI/University of Essen
April 6
School of Mathematics
PDE Seminar: "Large Time Behavior of Scalar
Conservation Laws"
WEINAN E, IAS
April 7
School of Mathematics
Superrigidity Seminar: "Finite Energy
Retractions of Locally Symmetric Manifolds"
(continued)
LESLIE SAPER, MS
April 8
School of Historical Studies
Medieval Seminar: "Art and Ideology in Pre-
Christian Bulgaria"
OKSANA MINAEVA, MS
School of Mathematics
Quantum Algebraic Geometry Seminar: "Sigma
Models" (continued)
EDWARD WITTEN, MS
Applied Mathematics-Math Physics Seminar:
"Numerical Schemes for Hyperbolic
Conservation Laws with Stiff Source Terms and
their Applications"
SHI JIN, Courant Institute