Conferences and Conversations

From 1979 to the On-Going Present,(by order of Upload!)
Roy Lisker

1. Conference to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Evariste Galois
   Institute Henri Poincaré, October24-28,2011
   (1)A Visit to the Institut de France, October 19
   (2)Opening ceremonies and discourses, October 24
   (3)An exhibition,public lectures banquet

2. Conference on Cosmology at the Ecole Normale Superieure
   October 29, 2010 (partial coverage) : Penrose, Rovelli, Dijkgraaf,Connes, Kontsevich

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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

10. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Conference, Part 1
    University of Chicago, Winter 1996
    
    1.pdf
    2.doc

    Chandrasekhar,Part 2
    1.pdf
    2.doc

    Chandrasekhar HTML

    Separating fact from fiction in my report on the Chandrasekhar Conference:
    parody,doc;parody,pdf

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

12. American Mathematics Society Millenium Conference
    Washington, D.C. January 2000
    1.doc
    2.pdf
    AMS Part 2
    1.doc
    2.pdf

13. Quantum Limits to the Second Law

University of San Diego, July 2002

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