Report for the Academic Years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989
Report for the Academic Years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989
Report for the Academic Years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989
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Number Theory Seminar: "An overview of<br />
Vojta's proof [conclusion) • m<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERI, ProfcSSOr, School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
March M I<br />
Luncheon Seminar: Insecure prosperity:<br />
Jews in small-town industrial America,<br />
1880-1940"- s<br />
EWA MORAWSKA, Sdwol of Social Science, IAS<br />
March 3 i<br />
Special Seminar: "Analytic torsion of<br />
Koszul complexes"- m<br />
EZRA GETZLER, Harvard University<br />
April 3<br />
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Implications of<br />
experiment <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory of high temperature<br />
superconductivity"- n<br />
VICTOR EMERY, Brookliaveti National Liiboratory<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar:<br />
"Rational maps of degree two"- m<br />
MARY REES, Scliool of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Members Seminar: "Line geometry,<br />
differential equations <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> birth of Lie's<br />
Theory of Groups"- m<br />
THOMAS HAWKINS, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
April 4<br />
Supermanifold Theory Seminar:<br />
"A Course on supermanifold <strong>the</strong>ory"- M<br />
DiMiTRY LEITES, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Ethnicity Seminar: "Sociology <strong>and</strong><br />
historiography of immigration"- S<br />
EWA MORAWSKA, School of Social Science, IAS<br />
April 6<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "From riot to rebellion:<br />
ethnic <strong>and</strong> political crisis in Chiapas,<br />
1685-1720"-<br />
s<br />
MURDOJ. MACLEOD, School of<br />
Historical Studies, IAS<br />
April 7<br />
Lunchtime Seminar: "Renormalization group<br />
flows in G/H con<strong>for</strong>mal <strong>the</strong>ories from flows in<br />
WZW models"- n<br />
NORMAN REDLiCH, Sclwol of Natural Sciences, IAS<br />
RECORX) OF EVENTS <strong>1988</strong> - <strong>1989</strong><br />
April Ml<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "R<strong>and</strong>om<br />
perturbations <strong>and</strong> invariant measures <strong>for</strong><br />
one-dimensional maps"- m<br />
MICHAEL BENEDICKS, School of Matliematics, IAS<br />
April 1 1<br />
Supermanifold Theory Seminar:<br />
"A Course on supermanifold <strong>the</strong>ory"- m<br />
DIMITRY LEITES, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
April \2<br />
Number Theory Seminar:<br />
"First steps in Vojta's proof- m<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERI, Professor, School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
April 13<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "Remaking pohtics:<br />
citizenship <strong>and</strong> race in Britain <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
United States"- s<br />
MARGARET WEIR, Scliool of Social Science, IAS<br />
April 14<br />
Number Theory Seminar: "An introduction to<br />
diophantine approximation" [continued] -<br />
m<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERI, Professor, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics,<br />
IAS<br />
April 17<br />
Theoretical Physics Seminar:<br />
"Quantum gravity in two dimensions"- n<br />
J. POLCHINSKI, University of Texas<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "Towards<br />
universality in one-dimensional dynamics"- m<br />
GRZEGORZ SWIATEK, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
April 19<br />
Number Theory Seminar:<br />
"Vojta's proof [continued] - m<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERI, Professor, School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
April 21<br />
Lunchtime Seminar: "The cluster expansion <strong>for</strong><br />
wormholes, <strong>the</strong> large wormhole problem <strong>and</strong><br />
Newton's constant"- n<br />
s School of Social Science d Director's Office<br />
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s.P. DE ALWis, School of Natural Sciences, IAS