<p> Monday, Mar. 9 at 4 pm in MS 6221</p> <br>

<p> Speaker:  V. S. Varadarajan, UCLA</p><br>

<p> Title:  Airy Functions on Local Fields </p><br>

<p> Abstract: The classical Airy function and its many applications are 
well known. A few
years ago Kontsevich defined a matrix generalization of the Airy integral 
and
found that its theory had many applications to intersection theory on the 
moduli
space of curves.

In my talk which will be as elementary as possible I shall show that the
Kontsevich integral has a very wide generalization and discuss the 
properties of this
generalization. The work is joint with my former students Rahul Fernandez
and David Weisbart.</p>