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School of Natural Sciences
Theorerical Physics Seminar: "Quantum
Background Independence in String Theory"
EDWARD WITTEN. IAS
May 12
School of Mathematics
Geometry Seminar; "Some Geometry and
Dynamics Around Manifolds of Negative
Curvature"
CHENGBO YUE, Penn State
May 14
School of Natural Sciences
Lunchtimc Seminar: "The Many Faces of KP"
JEREMY SCHIFF, MS
May 18
School of Mathematics
PDE Seminar: "The Spectrum of the Laplacian
on Forms and Applications"
JOSE ESCOBAR, Indiana University
May 20
School of Mathematics
PDE Seminar: "The Location of Singularities of
P-harmonic Maps"
BOB HARDT, Rice University
Geometry Seminar: "Local Solvability of
Degenerate Systems of PDE"
DENNIS DETURCK, University oj Pennsylvania
May 21
School of Social Science
Science Studies Seminar: Models of Science-
Society Networks, Discussion of M. Norton
Wise, "Mediations: Enhghtenment Balancing
Acts, or the Technologies of Rationalism";
Michel Gallon, "Four Models for the Dynamics
of Science"; and Michel Gallon and John Law,
"Social Ordering: Some Lessons from the
Sociology of Science and Technology"
MICHEL CALLON, IAS and M. NORTON WISE,
Princeton University
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May 26
School of Mathematics
Geometry Seminar: "Gauss Curvature Flows and
Entropy Inequalities"
BEN ANDREWS, CMA Canberra
School of Natural Sciences
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Phase Transitions in
Correlated Random Media: He in Aerogel"
JON MACHTA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
May 27
School of Mathematics
Geometry Seminar: "On the Behavior of the
Dirichlet Energy for Maps from Spheres"
DONG ZHANG, Jo/i«5 Hopkins University
May 28
School of Natural Sciences
Lunchtime Seminar: "Electroweak Symmetry
Breaking at the SSC and LHC"
JON BAGGER. Johns Hopkins University
School of Social Science
Science Studies Seminar: Reality of the Daily
Research Routine, Presentation of Audiotape:
Andor Carius and Ronald Steckel, "Fusion: An
Audio Spectral Analysis of the Princeton Plasma
Physics Laboratory and Its Fusion Test Reactors
TFTR, PLT and PDX"
MICHEL CALLON and KARIN KNORR-CETINA,
MS
June 24
School of Natural Sciences
PubUc Lecture: "Dealing with Genes 11"
MAXINE SINGER. President of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington PAUL BERG, Discussant, Stanford
University
July 14
School of Natural Sciences
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Quantum
Background Independence in String Theory"
EDWARD WITTEN, MS