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The following were special events in our 1999 celebration of the
Centenary of the Mathematics Department.
- January 20
- Opening tea, celebration of Steele Prize and NSF
Postdocs
- January 20
- Valerio Toledano* (U of Paris VI)
Representation theory seminar:
Connes Fusion and the Verlinde rules for loop groups
of type BCD
- January 21
- Valerio Toledano* (U of Paris VI)
Geometry-Topology seminar:
Integrating Unitary Representations of Infinite--dimensional
Lie groups
- January 27
- Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach* (Ecole Polytechnique)
Colloquium:
The classical dynamical Yang-Baxter
equation: from Lie bialgebras to Lie bialgebroids
- January 27
- Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach* (Ecole Polytechnique)
Representation theory seminar:
On the modular class of a Poisson manifold
- February 10
- Carla Savage# (North Carolina State University)
Colloquium: Combinatorial Gray Codes
- February 11
- Carla Savage# (North Carolina State University)
Lunch with women faculty and students,
Undergraduate talk:
Integer Partitions and Their Ranks
- February 16
- Dedication of D.R.L. lobby display on
African-American
Mathematics Ph.D.s #*
- March 15
- (University of Utah)
Algebra seminar: The geometry of Kuranishi data: Obstructions
annhilate cohomology.
- March 17
- C. Herbert Clemens (University of Utah)
Colloquium:
Continuous families of curves on Calabi-Yau threefolds
- March 19
- Transfer of lobby display to permanent home in
DuBois College House #*
- March 24
- Louis Nirenberg (Courant Institute)
Colloquium: Degree theory and BMO
- April 7
- Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton University)
Colloquium: Quantizing redundant representations
- April 16-18
- Geometry Festival **
- April 26-30
- S-T. Yau (Harvard University)
Rademacher Lectures: "Mirror Symmetry"
- September 22
- Yongbin Ruan (University of Wisconsin)
Gromov-Witten invariants and Quantum cohomology
- September 29
- Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas) Schroedinger Maps
- September 30
- Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas)
Integrable Systems: Loop group and Virasoro actions on solutions
Room 4C8, at 1:30
- October 13
- Sara Billey (MIT)
Permutations, Pattern Avoidance and Applications in
Algebraic Geometry
- October 20
- Jerry Gollub (Haverford)
Transient chaotic fluid dynamics
- October 29
- Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study)
Science and Politics of Climate
- October 30
- Primary celebration event of department centenary
Speakers: Freeman Dyson, George Andrews, Cathleen Morawetz,
Bert Vogelstein
see our web page Celebration
for more details.
- November 10
- Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford University)
Symplectic Field Theory
- December 8
- Xin Zhou (Duke University)
* Supported in part by the University of Pennsylvania's French Institute
for Culture and Technology
# Supported in part by the Penn School of Arts and Sciences Trustees'
Women's Council's Fund to Encourage Women
#* with the DuBois Collective and the support of the University Archives
** Supported in part by the National Science Foundation
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