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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Topology Seminar m<br />
GRAEME B. SEGAL, University of Ox<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Supergeometry Seminar: "The super-Virasoro<br />
algebras: representation <strong>the</strong>ory [continued]"- m<br />
ALVANY ROCHA-CARiDi, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "Apes, aliens, cyborgs,<br />
<strong>and</strong> women"- s<br />
DONNA HARAWAY, School of Social Science, IAS<br />
1 )ci.L'nibi-r 4<br />
Seminar on Con<strong>for</strong>mal Field Theory m<br />
DANIEL FRIEDAN, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matia, IAS<br />
Seminar on Con<strong>for</strong>mal Field Theory -<br />
GRAEME SEGAL, University of Ox<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> advanced study<br />
m<br />
lAS-Princeton University Lunchrime Seminar:<br />
"Ghosdy Polyakov integrals; dual Peierls<br />
brackets"- n<br />
MARK RUBIN, Rockefeller University<br />
Astrophysics Seminar: "Intrinsic shapes of<br />
elliptical galaxies"<br />
MARijN franx. University of Leiden<br />
December 7<br />
Special Lecture: "SI -actions <strong>and</strong> elliptic<br />
genera revisited"- M<br />
CLIFFORD TAUBES, Harvard University<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "Algorithms<br />
<strong>for</strong> a global perspective"- m<br />
STEPHEN SMALE, University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />
at Berkeley <strong>and</strong> IBM<br />
Members Seminar: "The trace class problem in<br />
<strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory of automorphic <strong>for</strong>ms"- m<br />
WERNER mOller, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Con<strong>for</strong>mal<br />
<strong>the</strong>ories <strong>and</strong> punctured surfaces"- n<br />
CUMRUn wafa. Harvard University<br />
I )cccmlicr 8<br />
Art History Colloquium: "Vittore Carpaccio's<br />
Young Knight reconsidered"- H<br />
lubomIr konecny. School of Historical Studies, IAS<br />
Seminar on Orbits in Spaces of Lattices:<br />
"Unipotent flows"- M<br />
GOPAL PRASAD, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Drinfeld Modules Seminar: "Drinfeld motives<br />
[concluded]"- m<br />
GREG w. ANDERSON, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matia, IAS<br />
Drinfeld Modules Seminar:<br />
"Periods of second kind"- m<br />
ernst-ulrich gekeler. School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Astrophysics Seminar Luncheon •<br />
n<br />
J. BAHCALL, Professor, School of Natural Sciences,<br />
IAS; P. HUT, Professor, School of Natural Sciences,<br />
IAS; J. E. gunn, Princeton University; B. PACZYNSKI,<br />
Princeton University; j. Peebles, Princeton<br />
University; r. tyson. Bell Labs<br />
December 9<br />
Number Theory Seminar: "Elementary<br />
bounds <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> degree of Artin L-fiinctions in<br />
characteristic p [concluded]"- m<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERJ, Professor, School of<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Seminar on Three- <strong>and</strong> Four-Manifolds:<br />
"Floer homology groups <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Brieskom<br />
spheres Z(p,q,r)"- m<br />
GORDANA matiC, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Simulation Seminar: "Live Halos in Merger<br />
Calculations" - n<br />
JOSHUA BARNES. School of Natural Sciences, IAS<br />
"Constructing spherical models"<br />
HERWIG dejonghe, School of Natural Sciences, IAS<br />
"Smooth particle hydrodynamics<br />
in a tree code"<br />
LARS hernquist. School of Natural Sciences, IAS<br />
December 1<br />
1<br />
Topology Seminar: "Renormalized cycUc<br />
cocycles <strong>and</strong> eta invariants"- m<br />
STEVEN E. HURDER, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matia, IAS<br />
Supergeometry Seminar: "KP <strong>and</strong> SKP<br />
hierarchies, I", m<br />
takahiro shiota, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
H School of Historical Studies M School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics N School of Natural Sciences<br />
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