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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Members Seminar: "Instantons, Platonic solids<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> geometry of <strong>the</strong> nilpotent vanety"- m<br />
PETER KRONHEiMER, Sdiool oj Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
February 7<br />
Seminar on Locally Symmetric Varieties:<br />
"Invariants <strong>and</strong> Sato-Shmtani<br />
zeta-functions"- m<br />
MARK STERN, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
February 8<br />
Seminar on Representation Theory of p-adic<br />
Groups: "Tamely ramified supercuspidal<br />
representations <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> classical groups"- m<br />
LAWRENCE MORRIS, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Number Theory Seminar: "Dyson's <strong>the</strong>orem<br />
m diophantme approxunations'"- M<br />
ENRICO BOMBiERi, Professor, School oj<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Ethnicity Seminar: "The national question in<br />
Pol<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Soviet Union"- s<br />
EWA MORAWSKA, 5i:/!t'o/ of Social Science, IAS<br />
February 9<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "History in crisis? The<br />
o<strong>the</strong>rs' side of <strong>the</strong> story"- s<br />
JOAN w. SCOTT, Professor, School oj Social<br />
Science, IAS<br />
Art History Colloquium: "Paradox <strong>and</strong><br />
enigma in Danhome art"- H<br />
SUZANNE BLiER, School of Historical Studies, IAS<br />
February 10<br />
Lunchtime Seminar: "Gauge <strong>the</strong>ories <strong>and</strong><br />
integrable lattice models"- n<br />
EDWARD wiTTEN, Professor, School oj Natural<br />
Sciences, IAS<br />
Number Theory Seminar: "An introduction to<br />
deophantine approximation" [continued] m<br />
ENRICO BOMBIERI, Professor, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics,<br />
IAS<br />
Fcbruan,' 13<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "Topological<br />
pressure, principal eigenvalues <strong>and</strong> growth rates<br />
of solution <strong>for</strong> parabolic equations with small<br />
parameters"- m<br />
YURI KIFER, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
RECORX) OF EVENTS <strong>1988</strong> - <strong>1989</strong><br />
February 14<br />
Medievalist Seminar: "What did monasticism<br />
mean to medieval man?"- h<br />
LUDOj.R. MiLis, School of Historical Studies, IAS<br />
Seminar on Locally Symmetric Varieties<br />
[continued]: "A Lefschetz <strong>the</strong>orem <strong>for</strong> Hecke<br />
operators"- M<br />
MARK STERN, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Members Seminar: "The traveling salesman<br />
problem <strong>and</strong> related problems in harmonic<br />
analysis"- m<br />
PETER JONES, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
Special Seminar: "Geometry <strong>and</strong> potential<br />
<strong>the</strong>ory on Lie groups"- M<br />
N. VAROPOULOS, University of Paris VI<br />
Fcbruan,- 1 5<br />
Number Theory Seminar: "Heights <strong>and</strong><br />
intersections on arithmetic surfaces"- m<br />
D. THAKUR, School of Matlmnatia, IAS<br />
February 16<br />
Luncheon Seminar: "Sacred monarchy, regicide,<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> boundaries of legitimacy"- s<br />
LLOYD moote. School of Historical Studies, IAS<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar:<br />
"Minimal action orbits"- m<br />
JOHN MATHER, School of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
FcbriKU'N' 17<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 />
February 20<br />
Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Catastrophes,<br />
spectral flow <strong>and</strong> coset models"- n<br />
CUMRUN VAFA, Harvard University<br />
Dynamical Systems Seminar: "New invanant<br />
manifolds <strong>and</strong> foliations <strong>and</strong> applications to<br />
rigidity"- M<br />
R. DE LA LLAVE, Sclwol of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
February 21<br />
Members Seminar: "Symmetric decreasing<br />
rearrangement is discontinuous in Wip(R")<br />
ELLIOTT LiEB, Sclwol of Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, IAS<br />
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