At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1997 Colloquium talks.
Spring 1997
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 23 | Cathleen Morawetz, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | DiPerna Lecture, "Transonic flow: two existence problems" |
| January 30 | Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona | Poisson geometry and the Schubert calculus |
| February 6 | Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya, Steklov Math Institute, St. Petersburg | On solvability and attractors of the Navier-Stokes equations |
| February 13 | Chern Symposium | |
| February 20 | David Eisenbud, Brandeis University | An application of Commutative Algebra to Statistics |
| February 27 | Lynne Butler, Haverford College and MSRI | Enumeratively identical lattices: Subgroups and invariant subspaces |
| March 6 | Ivan Penkov, University of California, Riverside | Shadows of representations |
| March 13 | Alexander Givental, University of California, Berkeley | PDEs and Singularities |
| March 20 | Irena Peeva, MIT | Free resolutions |
| March 27 | Spring Break! | |
| April 3 | M. S. Raghunathan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and The University of Michigan | The first betti number of locally symmetric spaces |
| April 10 | Harvey Friedman, Ohio State University | Unprovable theorems in discrete mathematics (no knowledge of logic will be assumed) |
| April 17 | Lisa R. Goldberg, Barra, Inc. | No volatility in the rational lognormal model |
| April 24 | Elwyn Berlekamp, UC Berkeley | Overview of combinatorial game theory (Mathematics Awareness Week lecture) |
| May 1 | Bas Edixhoven, University of Rennes and UC Berkeley | Polynomial relations between j-invariants of elliptic curves |
| May 8 | Christine Bessenrodt, University of Magdeburg | Representations of the symmetric groups and related groups, and their combinatorics |
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.
Kenneth A. Ribet, colloquium chair