SPRING 1998

• January 29 :
  Speaker: Prof. Dani Wise, Cornell University
  Title: Coherent Groups and the Perimeter of 2-Complexes
• February 12 :
  Speaker: Prof. Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
  Title: Arithmetic Groups And Critical Points Of Riemannian Functionals.
• February 19 :
  Speaker: Prof. Martin Bridson, Oxford
  Title: The geometry of the word problem in finitely presented groups
• February 26 :
  Speaker: Prof. Mladen Bestvina, U. of Utah and Texas
  Title: Local connectivity of limit sets
• March 5 :
  Speaker: Prof. Alejandro Adem, University of Wisconsin
  Title: Groups, Fields and Topological Symmetries
• March 12 :
  Speaker: Prof. Jozef Siran, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
  Title: Large Graphs of Given Diameter and Degree
  Abstract
• March 24 :
  Speaker: Prof. Hermann Heineken, , University of Wuerzburg
  Title: On Normal Embeddings Of p-Groups Into p-Groups
  Abstract
• March 26 :
  Speaker: Prof. George Casella, Cornell University
  Title: Date-driven Gibbs sampling
• April 23:
  Speaker: Prof. Kenneth S. Brown, Cornell University
  Title: Geometry and Probability in Three Dimensions.
• May 7 :
  Speaker: Prof. Ron Fintushel, Michigan State University
  Title: Knot theory and 4-manifolds