Talks Held during the Fall 2001 Semester


October 31, 2001:

Evgenii Shustin, Tel Aviv University,


Title: Analytic Order of Singular and Critical Points.

November 7, 2001:

Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, University of Wroclaw, Poland,


Title: Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups of Large Dimension and Related Topics.

November 14, 2001:

Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, University of Wroclaw, Poland,


Title: Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups of Large Dimension and Related Topics (continuation).

November 21, 2001:

Vladimir Berkovich, Weizmann Institute

Title: p-Adic Analytic and Piecewise Linear Spaces.

November 28, 2001:

Michael Entov, Technion

Title: Commutator Length of Symplectomorphisms.

December 5, 2001:

Sergei Yakovenko, Weizmann Institute

Title: Quasi-Algebraicity of Picard-Vessiot Extensions and Zeros of Abelian Integrals.

December 12, 2001:

No Seminar

December 19, 2001:

Yakov Varshavsky, Hebrew University


Title: On the Characterization of Complex Shimura Varieties.

December 26, 2001:

Michael Polyak, Tel-Aviv University


Title: Cubic Complexes.

January 2, 2002:

Michael Farber, Tel-Aviv University


Title: Lusternik - Schnirelman Theory and Dynamics.

January 9, 2002:

Alfred Inselberg, Tel-Aviv University


Title: Visualizing Multidimensional Geometry and Some Applications.

January 16, 2002:

David Lehavi, Hebrew University


Title: A Smooth Plane Quartic can be Reconstructed from its Bitangents.

January 23, 2002:

Pho Duc Tai, Bar Ilan University

Title: Geometry of Sextics of Torus Type.

January 30, 2002:

Inna Scherbak, Tel-Aviv University


Title: Fuchsian Differential Equations and sl_2 Representations.



Talks held during the spring 2002 semester.


March 13, 2002:

T. Keilen, Kaiserslautern University

Title: Irreducible Families of Curves on Algebraic Surfaces.

April 10, 2002:
 Yael Karshon, Hebrew University
Title: Sheaves of Hamiltonian Spaces.
April 24, 2002:
Yong-Geun Oh, IAS Princeton & University of Wisconsin Madison
Title: Large Volume Limit of Floer's Moduli Space.
May 1'st, 2002:
 Genadi Levin, Hebrew University

Title: Julia Sets: An Interplay Between Geometry & Dynamics.
May 15, 2002:
 Dmitry Novikov, Purdue University

Title: Convex-Concave Hypersufaces in Real Projective Space.
May 22, 2002:
 Paul Seidel, IAS Princeton
Title: Fukaya Categories & Deformation Theory
May 29, 2002:
 Gang Tian, MIT
Lefschetz Pencils & the Symplectic Isotopy Problem
June 5, 2002:
 Dmitry Burago, Penn State University

Title: Gaussian Measures of Surfaces, Ellipticity of Volume Functionals, and
Volume/Distance Estimates.
June 12, 2002:
 Pierre Milman, University of Toronto

Title: Differentiable Functions on Closed Sets: A Problem of Whitney