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April 26<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
Special Seminar: "Group Actions and Mori<br />
<strong>The</strong>ory"<br />
MICHEL BRION, Universiti de Grenoble<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
<strong>The</strong>oretical Physics Seminar: "Calabi-Yau<br />
Cosmic Yarn"<br />
TRISTAN HUBSCH, Howard University<br />
April 27<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
Lunchtime Seminar: "New QCD Results from<br />
Superstring <strong>The</strong>ory — Part HI"<br />
ZVI BERN. IAS<br />
April 28<br />
Chaos, Order, and Creativity:<br />
An Interdisciplinary Colloquium<br />
Introduction<br />
IRVING LAVIN, MS<br />
Loops, Primes and Membranes: A Non-<br />
Euchdean Look at Quantum Chaos<br />
DENNIS HEJHAL. IAS<br />
Evolution and Entropy<br />
STEPHEN BRUSH, MS<br />
Science, Reason, and Passion<br />
ILYA PRIGOGINE, Instituts Internalionaux de Physique<br />
et de Chimie, Universite Libre de Bruxelles<br />
Chair: FRANK WILCZEK, MS<br />
Leonardo's Watery Chaos<br />
IRVING LAVIN, MS<br />
Spirals of Life: D'Arcy Thompson Looking<br />
Backwards and Forwards<br />
MARTIN KEMP, University of St. Andrews<br />
Symmetry in Science, Art, and Thought<br />
FRANK WILCZEK. IAS<br />
Chair: IRVING LAVIN, MS<br />
AprU 29<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University<br />
Harmonic Analysis and Number <strong>The</strong>ory<br />
Seminar: "<strong>The</strong> Intersection Cohomology of <strong>the</strong><br />
Reductive Borel Serre Compactification"<br />
LESLIE SAPER. IAS<br />
AprU 30<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
Lunchtime Seminar: "Line Liquids and <strong>the</strong><br />
Landau-Peierls Instability"<br />
RANDY KAMIEN. MS<br />
<strong>Institute</strong> <strong>for</strong> advanced study<br />
74<br />
School of Social Science<br />
Science Studies Seminar: Is <strong>The</strong>ory-Choice<br />
Determined by Evidence or Social Interests?,<br />
Discussion of Larry Laudan, "Demystifying<br />
Underdetermination"; and Peter Slezak, "Bloor's<br />
Bluff: Behaviourism and <strong>the</strong> Strong Programme"<br />
LARRY LAUDAN, MS<br />
May 4<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
<strong>The</strong>oretical Physics Seminar: "New Techniques<br />
in Perturbative QCD"<br />
DAVID KOSOWER, CERN<br />
May 5<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Kinetic<br />
Roughening Phenomena"<br />
TIM HALIPIN-HEALY. Barnard College, Columbia<br />
University<br />
May 6<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
IAS, Princeton University, Rutgers University<br />
Harmonic Analysis and Number <strong>The</strong>ory Seminar<br />
S. GELBART. Weizmann <strong>Institute</strong><br />
May 7<br />
Faculty Lecture<br />
"Primordial Loyalties and Standing Entities:<br />
Anthropological Reflections on <strong>the</strong> Politics of<br />
Identity"<br />
CLIFFORD GEERTZ. IAS<br />
May 10<br />
School of Natural Sciences<br />
<strong>The</strong>oretical Physics Seminar: "Masses and<br />
Coupling Constants <strong>for</strong> QCD in <strong>the</strong> Valence<br />
Approximation"<br />
D. WEINGARTEN, IBM Research<br />
May 11<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
PDE Seminar: "Boundary Value Problems <strong>for</strong><br />
Surfaces of Constant Gauss Curvature"<br />
JOEL SPRUCK. Jofifii Hopkins University<br />
Geometry Seminar: "Extremal Metrics on a<br />
Riemann Surface with a Curvature Forcing<br />
Term"<br />
XIU-XIONG CHEN. University of Pennsylvania
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