At the bottom of this page is a list of downloadable PDF files of the available abstracts of the Spring 1998 Colloquium talks.
Spring 1998
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| January 22 | Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Corporation | Birth of the Infinite Cluster: finite size scaling in percolation |
| January 29 | Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, U. C. Berkeley | Free Probability Theory |
| February 5 | Tai-Ping Liu, Stanford University | Hyperbolic Conservation Laws |
| February 12 | José Felipe Voloch, University of Texas at Austin | Cellular telephones and elliptic curves over rings |
| February 19 | Jerrold Marsden, U.C. Berkeley and Caltech | Variational Integrators, Collision Algorithms and Mission Planning |
| February 26 | Karl Rubin, Stanford University | Euler systems |
| March 5 | Symposium in Geometry in honor of S. S. Chern | |
| March 12 | Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs | Games, Complexity Classes, and Approximation Algorithms |
| March 19 | Brian D. Conrad, Institute for Advanced Study< | Deformation theory of Galois representations for the non-expert |
| March 27 | Spring Break! | |
| April 2 | Jay Jorgenson, Oklahoma State University | Geometry and spectral theory of degenerating hyperbolic three manifolds |
| April 9 | Marie-Françoise Roy, University of Rennes | Algorithms for real algebraic geometry: recent results and open problems |
| April 16 | Ehud Hrushovski, Dept. of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and MSRI | Is there a geometry of difference equations? |
| April 23 | Victor Kac, MIT | Classification of infinite-dimensional groups of supersymmetries |
| April 30 | Alberto Grunbaum, U. C. Berkeley | Mathematics and Imaging: Mathematics Awareness Week lecture |
| May 7 | Jeremy Gray, The Open University | On the history of the Riemann-Roch Theorem |
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