The Basic Notions Seminar

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     Spring 2004 at Harvard University
Organized by William Stein
Meets in Science Center 507 Mondays at 3pm

February 23	Yum-Tong Siu	Methods of $\bar\partial$ estimates in algebraic geometry
March 1	Barry Mazur	Differential structures on complex manifolds and p-adic L-functions [link to windows media video of the talk]
April 5	Noam Elkies	Hypergeometric Functions: Why
April 12	Dick Gross	Parabolics and Parahorics
April 19	John Voight (Berkeley)	An Introduction to Algebraic Stacks (Notes in DVI format)
April 26	Tom Coates	Gromov-Witten Invariants Notes: PDF or PS
May 3	Marc Levine (Northeastern)	Motives Notes: PDF,    Photos

Fall 2003

September 29	Irene Minder, Laura Matusevich & Danny Goroff	Applying for an Academic Job in Mathematics Handout (20kb pdf file, latex)
October 6	Cliff Taubes	Some Research Questions in Differential Topology
October 27	S.T. Yau	Geometry and Computer Graphics [link to 14MB pdf slides]
November 10	Jean-Pierre Serre	Writing Mathematics? (click for pics, video)
November 17	Raoul Bott	The Symbol of an Operator; a Reminiscence
December 1	Martin Nowak	Evolutionary Dynamics of Language
December 8	Shlomo Sternberg	The Euler-Maclaurin formula in higher dimensions