At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Fall 1998 Colloquium talks.
Fall 1998
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 3 | Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong, visiting MSRI | Mathematical problems for the next century: version 2 |
| September 10 | Kevin Buzzard, University of Cambridge | Artin's conjecture on representations of Galois groups |
| September 17 | Rekha R. Thomas, Texas A&M University | Algebraic methods in integer programming |
| September 24 | Tilla Weinstein, Rutgers University, visiting UCB | Recent applications of Kulkarni's conformal boundary |
| October 1 | Sheldon Axler, San Francisco State University | Computing with harmonic functions |
| October 8 | Marius van der Put, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, visiting MSRI | The interaction of groups and differential equations |
| October 15 | William Fulton, University of Michigan, visiting MSRI | Eigenvalues of sums of Hermitian matrices, after A. Klyachko |
| October 22 | Alice Silverberg, Ohio State University, visiting UCB | Ranks of elliptic curves |
| October 29 | Karen Aardal, Utrecht University, visiting Rice University | Integer programming and basis reduction |
| November 12 | Dusa McDuff, SUNY at Stony Brook | Symplectic fibrations |
| November 19 | Benson Farb, University of Chicago | The asymptotic geometry of groups |
| November 26 | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
| December 3 | Inez Fung, UCB | El Nino and other oscillations in the climate system |
The colloquium meets Thursdays at 4:10PM in 60 Evans Hall. Lectures last 50 minutes and are followed by a short question period. The mathematical public is warmly invited to attend.
Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr., colloquium chair