Spring 1999 | Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Brandeis–Harvard–MIT–Northeastern Joint Mathematics Colloquium

Joint Mathematics Colloquium

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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