Selections from MSRI's Video Archive

Volume 2: Table of Contents

The Chern Symposium, March 5-7, 1998

• James Simons Introductory remarks
• Raoul Bott Configuration space invariants of knots and 3-manifolds
• Robert Bryant Finsler manifolds of constant flag curvature
• Xiu-Xiong Chen Extremal metrics in Riemann Surfaces and the Uniformization Theorem
• S. S. Chern Projective Geometry
• Friedrich Hirzebruch Why do I like Chern classes?
• Blaine Lawson Algebraic cycles and the classical groups
• Kefeng Liu Mirror Principle
• Ekhard Meinrenken Duistermaat-Heckman formulas for group valued moment maps and moduli spaces of flat connections
• Chuu-Lian Terng Backlund transformations and loop ground actions
• Alan Weinstein From Riemann geometry to Poisson geometry and back again