Conferences and Conversations

From 1979 to the On-Going Present
Roy Lisker

1. Einstein Centennial Symposium
   Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, March, 1979

2. International Congress of Math-Physicists
   Colorado University
   Boulder, Colorado, August 1983

3. Report on a conference on Fractals and Chaos, University of Cincinnati, September 1987 Mandelbrot's 5-Ring Fractal Circus.

4. Report on the Fermat's Last Theorem Conference
   Boston University August 9-18, 1995
   Fermat's Last Theorem
   This file capriciously disappears and re-appears on the Internet. I've not transferred its contents to Ferment Magazine because of its slender scientific content (The author is not a number theorist.) Its insights into the history of mathematics and the contemporary community of mathematicians may be valuable reading for someone lucky enough to find it.

5. The Quest for Alexandre Grothendieck
   France,Summer,1988

6. Conversations with Rene Thom
   Paris, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, July 1986

7. llth General Relativity and Gravitation Conference
   Stockholm, Sweden, August, 1986

8. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Conference
   University of Chicago, Winter 1996
   Chandrasekhar,Part 2

   On the roles of Fact and Fantasy in the depiction of the events at the Chandrasekhar Conference

9. Bolyai-Lobachevsky Non-Euclidean Geometry Conference
   Nyerigyháza,Hungary, July 1999

10. American Mathematics Society Millenium Conference (.doc)
    Washington, D.C. January 2000
    AMS Part 2(.doc)

11. Quantum Limits to the Second Law

University of San Diego, July 2002

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