Lectures from Other Organizations: 1996

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Dartmouth College

Chance Lectures, December 1997

Mark Breen , Fairbanks Museum Local weather forecasting
Daniel Wilks , Cornell University National weather forecasting
Arnold Barnett , MIT Risks in Everyday Life
Sheri Aggarwal , Dartmouth College Stock Market Valuation
Olaf Vancura , Harvard University Probability and statistics in gaming
David Moore , Gallup Organization How are polls carried out?
Bruce Weir , North Carolina State University The use of DNA fingerprinting in the courts
Ray Hyman , University of Oregon Statistical issues in ESP research
Hal Stern , Iowa State University Statistics in sports

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar

Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, November 9, 1996

Dusa McDuff Symplectomorphisms and the flux homomorphism
Ron Stern Knots, Links and 4-Manifolds

SIAM

45th Annual Meeting, July 1997

Eric Grosse The Impact of the Internet on Scientific Computing
John L. Hennessy High Performance Computer Architecture
William Kahan The Baleful Effect of Computer Languages and Benchmarks Upon AppliedMathematics, Physics and Chemistry
Joseph B. Keller Mathematics of Games and Sports
Donald E. Knuth 35 Years of (Linear) Probing
Paul C. Messina Clusters and Massively Parallel Computers: Are the Architectures Converging?
Peter Schršder Multiresolution Algorithms in Computer Graphics
Margaret H. Wright The Pursuit of Optimality: From the Big Picture to the Gory Details

Stanford University

An Ahlfors Celebration, September 15 - 19, 1997

Jerry Alexanderson Ahlfors - Fields Medalist
Kari Astala Quasiconformal Mappings, Homogenization and Optimal Conductivity Estimates for Composite Materials
James Cannon Discrete Riemann Mappings
Linda Keen Relating the Geometric and Analytical Approaches to Classifying Punctured Tori
Steven Krantz Lars Ahlfors: Geometer and Teacher
Robert Osserman The Schwarz-Pick-Ahlfors Lemma
Dennis Sullivan The Ahlfors-Bers measurable Riemann mapping theorem for higher dimensions
Paul Voltja Some Problems in Nevanlinna Theory Related to the abc Conjecture
Michael Wolf Flat Structures of Complete Minimal Surfaces in Euclidean 3-space

UC Berkeley

Floer Lecture 1997

Simon Donaldson Lefschetz Fibrations of Symplectic 4-manifolds

Bowen Lectures 1997

Simon Donaldson The Moment Map in Differential Geometry, pt 1.
Simon Donaldson The Moment Map in Differential Geometry, pt 2.
Simon Donaldson The Moment Map in Differential Geometry, pt 3