Report for the Academic Years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989

Lecture on Aspects of String Theory, IV m
DAVID I. OLIVE, School of Mathematics, IAS
Luncheon Seminar: "Durkheim and the social
constitution of the subject"- s
JERROLD SEIGEL, School of Social Science, IAS
October 30
Seminar on Conformal Field Theory •
RECORX) OF EVENTS 1987 - 1988
m
STEPHEN SHENKER, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
November 2
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "Zeta-functions
for hyperbohc flows"- m
MARK POLLICOTT, Scliool of Mathematics, IAS
Members Seminar: "Rational functions and
curves of genus 0"- M
JOHN THOMPSON, University of Florida at
Gainesville
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Graviton
dominance in ultra-high energy scattering"- n
GERALD T'HOOFT, Scliool oj Natural Sciences, IAS
November 3
Seminar on Orbits in Spaces of Lattices:
"Margulis' proof of Oppenheim's conjecture
[continued]"- M
GOPAL PRASAD, School of Mathematics, IAS
Dnnfeld Modules Seminar:
"Drinfeld motives"- m
GREG w. ANDERSON, School of Mathematics, IAS
Astrophysics Seminar: "Evolution and
clustering of heavy element absorption
redshifts in quasars"- N
WALLACE SARGENT, California Institute of Technology
Astrophysics Seminar Luncheon •
n
A. BABUL, Princeton University; c. bailyn, Harvard
University; j. gaustad, Swarthmore College;
w. haxton. University of Washington;
J. QUASHNACK, Princeton University; w. sargent,
California Institute of Technology; j. taylor,
Princeton University
November 4
Number Theory Seminar: "Exphcit
construction of expanding graphs"- M
FREDERIC V. BiEN, School of Mathematics, IAS
Seminar on Three- and Four-Manifolds:
"Donaldson invariants of four-manifolds, III"- m
PETER B. kronheimer, School of Mathematics, IAS
Gender Seminar: Discussion of Caroline
Steedman's book. Landscapefor a Good Woman- s
November 5
Art History Colloquium: "Paris and the origins
of Gothic architecture"- h
w. STEPHEN GARDNER, School of Historical
Studies, IAS
Topology Seminar: "What is BRS cohomology
and why?"- m
JAMES D. STASHEFF, School of Mathematics, IAS
Supergeometry Seminar:
"Lie superalgebras: representations"- m
FREDERIC V. BIEN, School of Mathematics, IAS
Lecture on Algebraic Aspects of String
Theory, V - m
DAVID I. olive, School of Mathematics, IAS
Luncheon Seminar: "The language of practice
and the practice of language: lost wor(l)ds of
late nineteenth-century Stockholm"- s
ALAN pred. University of California at Berkeley
November 9
Manton Morse Memorial Lecture, I: "The
Einstein-Hilbert variational problem on the
space of Riemannian metrics"- M
RICHARD M. SCHOEN. Stafford University
Special Seminar: "Inverse problems and
potential theory"- m
AVNER FRIEDMAN, University of Minnesota
November 10
Seminar on Orbits in Spaces of Lattices:
"Margulis'proof of Oppenheim's conjecture
[continued]"- M
ARMAND BOREL, Professor, School of Mathematics,
IAS
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Marston Morse Memorial Lecture, II:
"The Einstein-Hilbert variational problem on
the space of Riemannian metrics"- M
RICHARD M. SCHOEN, Stanford University