Streaming Video - Spring 1998

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Cryptography and Mathematics
January 11-12, 1998

Josh Benaloh A problem in computational group theory and its application to structured hashing
Neal Koblitz Overview of elliptic curve cryptography
Susan Landau Cryptographic policy
Kevin McCurley A whirlwind tour of cryptography
Luke O'Connor Using formal languages to analyse exponentiation algorithms
Jim Omura Commercial applications of cryptography
Bart Preneel Cryptanalysis and design of message authentication codes
Dan Simon On the derivability of collision-intractable hash functions

Introductory Workshop on Model Theory of Fields
January 12-16, 1998

Edward Bierstone Geometry, part 1
Edward Bierstone Geometry, part 2
Zoe Chatzidakis Model Theory of Fields
Jan Denef Geometry, part 1
Jan Denef Geometry, part 2
Bradd Hart Dimension Theory, part 1.
Bradd Hart Dimension Theory, part 2
Bradd Hart Dimension Theory, part 3
Ehud Hrushovski Recent Developments, part 1
Ehud Hrushovski Recent Developments, part 2
Angus Macintyre Recent Developments, part 3
Dugald Macpherson Dimension Theory, part 1
Dugald Macpherson Dimension Theory, part 2
Dugald Macpherson Dimension Theory, part 3
Dave Marker Basic Model Theory, part 1
Dave Marker Basic Model Theory, part 2
Dave Marker Basic Model Theory, part 3
Dave Marker Model Theory of Differential Fields
Barry Mazur Geometry, part 1
Barry Mazur Geometry, part 2
Lou van den Dries Model Theory of Fields, part 1
Lou van den Dries Model Theory of Fields, part 2
Lou van den Dries Model Theory of Fields, part 3

Chern Symposium
March 5-7, 1998

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
Phillip Griffiths Neo-modern Hodge theory
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
James Simons Introductory remarks
Chuu-Lian Terng Backlund transformations and loop ground actions
Alan Weinstein From Riemann geometry to Poisson geometry and back again

Workshop on Geometric Stochastic Analysis and Fine Properties of Stochastic Processes
March 23-27, 1998

A. Atsuji Value distribution theory for holomorphic and harmonic maps by stochastic techniques
J. Bertoin Two problems involving the geometry of regenerative sets
K. Burdzy A new Ray-Knight theorem
T. Colding Spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds
P. Li Mean value inequality on complete manifolds
J. Pitman Ranked functionals of Brownian and Bessel excursions
S. Rosenberg Bounded and L^2 harmonic forms on complete manifolds

Workshop on Homotopy theory for algebraic varieties with applications to K-theory and quadratic forms
May 11-16, 1998

Eric Friedlander Algebraic and topological K-theory
Fabien Morel The Steenrod Algebra
Fabien Morel Basic facts and problems in the homotopy theory of algebraic varieties
Fabien Morel Grothendieck-Witt rings of quadratic forms in the homotopy theory of algebraic varieties
Markus Rost On multiplicative functions and characteristic numbers Examples of norm varieties
Andrei Suslin Bloch-Lichtenbaum spectral sequence
Vladimir Voevodsky Introduction to homotopy theory I

Vladimir Voevodsky Introduction to homotopy theory II Algebraic cobordism
Vladimir Voevodsky Degree formula

Understanding the Genome: Technological and Mathematical Challenges
May 21-23, 1998

David Botstein Of Genes and Genomes
Elbert Branscomb Comparative Genomics: What, Why, Problems and Challenges
Phil Green Genome Sequence Assembly
David Haussler Using Hidden Markov Models for Biosequence Analysis: Recent Tests and New Methods
Leroy Hood Future Mathematical Challenges Posed by the Systems Analysis of Genomes and Proteomes
Robert Lipshutz Genes, Chips, and Genomes
Pavel Pevzner Gene Hunting Without Genomic Sequencing: the Twenty Questions Game with Genes
David Siegmund Statistical aspects of gene mapping
Donna Slonim Mining Gene Expression Data
Gary Stormo Uncovering Regulatory Networks Using Pattern Recognition Algorithms
Ellen Wijsman
Statistical and Computational Contributions to Gene Mapping: History and Current Developments

Model Theory, Algebra and Arithmetic
June 1-5, 1998

Lou Van den Dries Logarithmic-exponential series: model theoretic aspects
Kobi Peterzil Expansions of algebraically closed field in o-minimal structures
Emmanuel Ullmo Points of small height on curves of genus g>1
Florian Pop Elementary equivalence and Isomorphism
Anand Pillay Effective bounds and the isotrivial case of Mordell-Lang
Deirdre Haskell Elimination of imaginaries in algebraically closed valued fields
Diane Meuser On the rationality of zeta functions
Hans Schoutens Bounds in Cohomology
Andrei Gabrielov Complexity of Computations with Pfaffian and Noetherian Functions
Paul Vojta Recent developments in the relation between diophantine problems and Nevanlinna theory
Alexandru Buium An Arithmetic Analogue of Differential Algebraic Geometry
Thomas Scanlon Diophantine Consequences of Dichotomy Theorems in Differential and Difference Fields
Olga Kharlampovich Elementary theory of free groups I
Andrei Myasnikov Elementary theory of free groups II
Patrick Speissegger The pfaffian closure of an o-minimal structure
Boris Zil'ber Fields with pseudo-exponentiation
Frank Wagner Groups in Simple Theories
Angus Macintyre Primes and their residue fields in weak systems of arithmetic
Dan Abramovich Lang's conjecture and uniformity
Henri Gillet On the integrally closed subrings of the field of algebraic numbers
Ehud Hrushovski Around the first order theory of Frobenius

Low Dimensional Topology - The KirbyFest
June 22-26, 1998

Fredric Ancel Contractible open n-manifolds (n>4) are determined by their Z-boundaries
Joan Birman Vassiliev invariants of knots and links: a survey
Andrew Casson Setting the Stage: Surgery in the Sixties
Daryl Cooper The Orbifold Theorem
Simon Donaldson Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in 4-space
Robert Edwards That marvelous torus
Michael Freedman Some Ideas of Kirby's: in, around, and outside of mathematics
Stavros Garoufalidis The stable cohomology of the mapping class group with arbitrary coefficients
Cole Giller Emerging mathematical ideas in neurosurgery
Bob Gompf Applications of Kirby Calculus
Cameron Gordon The knot complement theorem
Michael Hirsch Foliated surfaces and algorithms for unknots
Vaughan Jones Noncommutative Geometry
Curt McMullen Foliated Teichmuller theory
John Morgan Holomorphic bundles over elliptic curves and families of del Pezzo surfaces
Yoav Moriah Non-isotopic Heegaard Splittings of nonmimimal genus
Rob Kirby Problem Session
Colin Rourke The Compression Theorem
Danny Ruberman Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
Larry Siebenmann Kirby and the promised land of topological manifolds: memories and memorable arguments
Ron Stern Some curious symplectic and non-symplectic 4-manifolds
Dennis Sullivan Combinatorial topology and the continuum model of geometry
Cliff Taubes The Geometry of the Seiberg-Witten Invariants
Larry Taylor Remarks on an old friend of Rob's: R⁴'s from then 'til now
Peter Teichner Filtering the knot concordance group by Whitney Towers
Charles Thomas Complexifying Diffeomorpism Groups of a Surface
William P. Thurston Are 3-manifolds transparent? Diamonds, glass and surgery

Algorithmic Algebra and Geometry: Summer Program for Graduate Students of MSRI Sponsoring Institutions
July 6-17, 1998

Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 1
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 2
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 3
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 4
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 5
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 6
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 7
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 8
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 9
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 10
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 11
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 12
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 13
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 14
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 15
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 16
Dave Bayer Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 17
Sorin Popescu Algorithms in Algebra and Geometry, part 18

Anders Bjorner Combinatorics and Homology of Graph Properties
Bernd Sturmfels Cutting Corners

Non Workshop Lectures Spring 1998
Conversations between Mathematics Teachers and Mathematics Researchers

Kieth Devlin Life by the Numbers (April 20, 1998)
Harriette Stevens The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (March 30, 1998)
Model Theory of Fields Seminar, April 20 - 23, 1998

Alex Wilkie Some (counter) examples in o-minimality I

Alex Wilkie Some (counter) examples in o-minimality II

Alex Wilkie Some (counter) examples in o-minimality III
Three Talks on Physical Oceanography, February 23, 1998

T. M. Chin Kalman filter and other data assimilation techniques in physical oceanography today
Frank Henyey Linear stochastic PDE's for acoustics and internal waves in the ocean
Peter Muller Stochastic Forcing of Oceanic Motions (or how far you can get with dX(t)= -alpha X(t)dt + sigma dW(t))
Miscellaneous Talks

Jennifer Chayes Hyperscaling and Critical Crossing Probabilities in Percolation (January 19, 1998)

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