Arnold's Seminar: Schedule for Autumn 1998

September 15

Goo Ishikawa (Hokkaido University). Determinacy, Transversality and Lagrange Stability.
(Summary).

September 22

V.I.Arnold. Problems.
LaTeX file.
PostScript file (gzipped).

September 29

M.Kazarian. Remarks on eigenvalues and eigenvectors of Hyper-Hermitian matrices.
Summary.
Written text (in Russian, 8 pages) is available as LaTeX source (zipped) and PostScript (gzipped).

October 6

D.Panov. Surfaces in projective space.
Summary (in Russian): Cyrillic text, Transliteration.

October 13

A.Agrachev. Symplectic invariants of variational problems and geometric structures.
Summary (in Russian): Cyrillic text, Transliteration.

October 20

V.I.Arnold. Stable classification of curves.
Summary.

October 27

V.Timorin. The Hodge-Riemann relations for simple convex polytopes,
Summary.

November 3

V.Vassiliev. Finite order invariants of plane curves.
Summary.

November 10

V.Vassiliev. Finite order invariants of plane curves (continuation).

November 17

P.Pushkar. Legendrian manifolds, cooriented immersions and sphere eversions.
Summary (in Russian): Cyrillic text, Transliteration.

November 24

S.Duzhin. The four-colour theorem: a survey of recent results (after R.Thomas).
Summary.

December 1

S.Gusein-Zade. On the monodromy of a singularity of a plane curve and the Poincare series of its ring of functions.
Summary (in Russian): Cyrillic text, Transliteration.
B.Kruglikov. Entire pseudoholomorphic curves in the tamed manifolds and Kobayashi pseudodistance.
Summary,

December 8

N.Ilyushechkin. On some identities for the elements of a symmetric matrix..
Summary: in Russian and in English.

December 15

V.Vassiliev. Immersions and their intersections (after T.Ekholm).
Summary.

December 22

Vladlen Timorin. Amoebas and Laurent series (after Forsberg and Mikhalkin).
Summary.

December 29

S.Lando. On the topological classification of meromorphic functions". (a report on joint work with T.Ekedahl, M.Shapiro and A.Vainshtein).
Summary.