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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Seminar on Orbits in Spaces of Lattices:<br />
"Margulis' proof of Oppenheim's conjecture<br />
[continued]"- M<br />
GOPAL PRASAD, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Drinfeld Modules Seminar: "Cyclotomic <strong>the</strong>ory,<br />
zeta <strong>and</strong> gamma functions"- m<br />
DAVID Goss, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, jy^g<br />
Drinfeld Modules Seminar: "Drinfeld modular<br />
<strong>for</strong>ms [continued]"- M<br />
ERNST-ULRJCH GEKELER, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Astrophysics Seminar Luncheon n<br />
J. BAHCALL, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, IAS;<br />
L. BLITZ, University of Maryl<strong>and</strong> at College Park;<br />
L. hernquist, School of Natural Sciences, IAS;<br />
H. ROOD, School of Natural Sciences, IAS;<br />
R. KULSRUD, Princeton University<br />
October 21<br />
Seminar on Three- <strong>and</strong> Four-Manifolds:<br />
"Donaldson invariants of four-manifolds, 1"- m<br />
MICHAEL ATIYAH, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
October 22<br />
Topology Seminar: "Analytic torsion <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
arithmetic Todd genus"- m<br />
CHRISTOPHE souLt. Short-term Visitor, School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Supergeometry Seminar:<br />
"Super Riemann surfaces"- m<br />
PIERRE DELIGNE, Professor, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics ,<br />
Lecture on Algebraic Aspects of<br />
String Theory, III - M<br />
DAVID I. OLIVE, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matia, IAS<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "Domesticating virtue:<br />
coquettes <strong>and</strong> rebels in <strong>the</strong> early American<br />
repubhc"- s<br />
CARROLL SMITH-ROSENBERG, School of<br />
Social Science, IAS<br />
October 23<br />
Seminar on Con<strong>for</strong>mal Field Theory -<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> advanced study<br />
m<br />
STEPHEN SHENKER, School of Natural Sciences, IAS<br />
• H School of Historical Studies M<br />
IAS<br />
October 26<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "Henon-like <strong>and</strong><br />
horseshoe mappings m <strong>the</strong> complex"- M<br />
RALPH w. oberste-vorth. School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matia, IAS<br />
Members Seminar: "Ruled surfaces <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
equations of all K-P elliptic solitons"<br />
ARMANDO treibich, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
October 27<br />
Seminar on Orbits in Spacesof Lattices:<br />
"Margulis' proof of Oppenheim's conjecture<br />
[continued]"- m<br />
IAS<br />
GOPAL PRASAD. School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics ,<br />
Drinfeld Modules Seminar: "Drinfeld<br />
motives"- M<br />
GREG w. ANDERSON, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Richard Llewelyn-Davies Lecture: "Richard<br />
Llewelyn-Davies <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> dilemma of <strong>the</strong><br />
architect"- d<br />
NOEL ANNAN, University of London<br />
Astrophysics Seminar Luncheon N<br />
J. BAHCALL, Professor, School of Natural Sciences,<br />
IAS; M. FALL, Space Telescope Science Institute,<br />
University of Maryl<strong>and</strong>; e.jenkins, Princeton<br />
University;]. Peebles, Princeton University;<br />
F. PERKINS, Plasma Physics Lab; A. stark.<br />
Bell Labs; e. turner, Princeton University<br />
October 28<br />
Number Theory Seminar:<br />
"Small eigenvalues on ro(p)"<br />
henryk iwaniec, Rutgers University<br />
School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics<br />
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Seminar on Three- <strong>and</strong> Four-Manifolds:<br />
"Donaldson invariants of four-manifolds, 11"- m<br />
MICHAEL ATIYAH, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Topology Seminar: "Towards a bivariant<br />
Chern character"- M<br />
STEVEN E. hurder, Sclxool of Ma<strong>the</strong>matia, IAS<br />
Supergeometry Seminar:<br />
"Lie superalgebras: classification"- M<br />
FREDERIC V. BIEN, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
• N School of Natural Sciences