Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

Winter-Spring 1999
 
 
Date Place Speaker Title
February 4 Northeastern
509 Lake 		Neil J. A. Sloane
AT&T Shannon Labs  		The sphere-packing problem 
February 11 Brandeis
317 Goldsmith 		Julius Shaneson
University of Pennsylvania  		Euler-MacLaurin expansions in higher dimensions 
February 18 MIT
Room 2-190 		Dan Burghelea
Ohio State University  		L2-Torsion 
February 25 Harvard
Science Center, Hall D 		Benson Farb
University of Chicago  		The asymptotic geometry of groups 
March 4 Northeastern
509 Lake 		Georgia Benkart
University of Wisconsin  		Down-up algebras 
March 11 MIT
Room 2-190 		Niky Kamran
McGill University  		Some geometric aspects of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations 
March 18 Harvard
Science Center, Hall D 		Philip A. Griffiths
I.A.S.  		Complex geometry and K2(C) 
March 25 Brandeis
317 Goldsmith 		Jonathan Weitsman
U.C. Santa Cruz  		Equivariant Morse theory, old and new 
April 8 Harvard
Science Center, Hall D 		Oleg Viro
Uppsala University  		Self-linkings and self-intersections of real algebraic varieties 
April 15 MIT
Room 2-190 		Cristopher Denninger
Univ. of Münster and Harvard  		Arithmetic and dynamical cohomologies 
April 22 Northeastern
509 Lake 		Steve Gersten
University of Utah  		Hyperbolic groups; or, is geometric group theory part of homological algebra? 
April 29 Brandeis
317 Goldsmith 		Guennadi Kasparov
University of Marseilles  		Operator algebras associated with geometric objects 
May 6 Harvard
Science Center, Hall D 		Bill Fulton
University of Michigan  		Eigenvalues, invariant factors, highest weights, and Schubert calculus 
May 13 MIT
Room 2-190 		Friedrich Hirzebruch
Max Planck Institute  		The signature and the Atiyah-Bott-Singer fixed point theorem 

The Colloquium is held on Thursday afternoons. 
Tea is from 4:00 to 4:30.  Talks are from 4:30 to 5:30.  

Colloquium organizers

Brandeis University Jerry Levine levine@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Harvard University Tom Graber
Grigory Mikhalkin 		graber@abel.math.harvard.edu
mihalkin@abel.math.harvard.edu
MIT Andras Szenes szenes@math.mit.edu
Northeastern University Andrei Zelevinsky
Alex Suciu 		andrei@neu.edu
alexsuciu@neu.edu
 

Colloquium archive

Winter-Spring 1998  |   Fall 1998
 
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