Lehigh Math Colloquium Schedule, Fall 1996 and Spring 1997
- Professor Ludwig Danzer
- Dortmund University
- September 11, 1996
- Aperiodic species of strictly ordered tilings of E^{2}, H^{2} and E^{3}
- Professor Stephen Michael Zemyan
- Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County
- September 19, 1996
- On the role of the Schwarzian derivative in univalent function theory
- Professor Garth Isaak
- Lehigh University
- September 25,1996
- Feedback Arc Digraphs
- or
- How bad can things get when ranking players in a tournament?
- Professor B. K. Ghosh
- Lehigh University
- October 2, 1996
- Poll Result: 72 of 600 Random Voters Favor Perot
- => Perot has 13.5% plus or minus 4% of the US Electorate
- with 95% Confidence
- Professor James Deardon
- Lehigh University
- October 9
- Cost Sharing and Licensing
- Professor Howard Fegan
- Lehigh University
- October 30, 1996
- First Order Invariant Operators
- Professor Ken Monks
- University of Scranton
- November 13, 1996
- Stripping, excess, and conjugation
- my affair with the Steenrod algebra
Michael Aizenman
- Princeton University
- January 29, 1997
- From percolation to Conformal Field Theory
Richard Clelland
- SUNY Stony Brook
- February 12, 1997
- Combined Simulation of Fluid and Granular Materials
Jerry King
- Lehigh University
- February 19,1997
- Under the Influence of Karl Weierstrass
Robert Kusner
- U. Mass.
- February 26,1997
- A Tour through the Moduli Spaces of Constant-Mean-Curvature Surfaces
Wenbo Li
- University of Delaware
- March 5. 1997
- On the expected length of the longest increasing subsequence
- under nonproduct measures
Benoit Mandelbrot
- Yale and IBM
- Pitcher Lectures: Fractals in Mathematics and the Sciences
- March 18: Open questions inspired by pictures of fractals
- March 19: Fractals: roles in the theories of chaos and disorder
- March 20: Fractals and scaling in finance:
- discontinuity, concentration and risk
Bill Mitchell
- University of Florida
- April 9, 1997
- When is the closed unbounded filter an ultrafilter?
David Mason
- University of Delaware
- April 16,1997
- The Fractal Nature of Functional Laws of the Iterated Logarithm
Herbert Robbins