Program
PROGRAM FOR THE MUMFORD SYMPOSIUM
Date: May 5th, 1997, Monday
Place: Science Center, Hall A
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
(Math Department, 4th Floor)
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Joe Harris
(Harvard University)
David Mumford and Algebraic Geometry
10:30 a.m. - 11:30
Stuart Geman
(Brown University)
David Mumford: Contribution to Machine Vision
and the Neurosciences
11:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
(Math Department, 4th Floor)
The following short talks will be given in the afternoon:
1:00 p.m. - 3:15p.m.
Speakers:
Bernard Saint-Donat
What is the structure of Finance?
Tadao Oda
(Tohoku University)
Lattice polytopes and algebraic geometry
Emma Previato
(Boston University)
Abelian and non-abelian theta functions
Tai-Sing Lee
(Carnegie-Mellon, CS)
Feedback and visual computation in the brain
Leslie Roberts
(Queens University)
Subintegrality and Weak Subintegrality
Song-Chun Zhu
(Brown University)
How far are we from the God's model?
Ching-li Chai
(University of Pennsylvania)
Moduli of Abelian varieties
Bill Lang
(Brigham Young Univ.)
Examples of lifting of surfaces and a problem in de
Rham cohomology
Ian Morrison
(Fordham University)
Grohner bases and mixed integer programming
3:15 p.m.- 3:45 p.m. Tea
3:45 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:
Amnon Neeman
(University of Virginia)
Representability theorems in derived categories
Akihiko Yukie
(Oklahoma State Univ.)
Prehomogeneoues vector spaces and invariant
theory
Larry Gonick
Career Singularities and a Singuliar Career
David Fry
(CEO of Gullfoss Software)
Marketing on the Internet
Yung sheng Tai
(Haverford College)
Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Spaces
Yang Wang
(GA Tech.)
Fractal Tiles: A potential business opportunity for
the ceramic industry
Hosted by Mark Nitzberg and John Fogarty
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Speakers
Joe Harris
(Harvard University)
David Mumford and Algebraic Geometry
Stuart Geman
David Mumford: Contribution to Machine Vision
and the Neurosciences
Bernard Saint-Donat
What is the structure of Finance?
Tadao Oda
(Tohoku University)
Lattice polytopes and algebraic geometry
Emma Previato
(Boston University)
Abelian and non-abelian theta functions
Tai-Sing Lee
(Carnegie-Mellon, CS)
Feedback and visual computation in the brain
Leslie Roberts
(Queens University)
Subintegrality and Weak Subintegrality
Song-Chun Zhu
(Brown University)
How far are we from the God's model?
Ching-li Chai
(University of Pennsylvania)
Moduli of Abelian varieties
Bill Lang
(Brigham Young Univ.)
Examples of lifting of surfaces and a problem in de
Rham cohomology
Ian Morrison
(Fordham University)
Grohner bases and mixed integer programming
Amnon Neeman
(University of Virginia)
Representability theorems in derived categories
Akihiko Yukie
(Oklahoma State Univ.)
Prehomogeneoues vector spaces and invariant
theory
Yung sheng Tai
(Haverford College)
Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Spaces
Larry Gonick
Career Singularities and a Singuliar Career
David Fry
CEO of Gullfoss
Software
Marketing on the Internet
Yang Wang
GA Tech.
Fractal Tiles: A potential business opportunity for
the ceramic industry
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