2010-11
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
Week of September 13
AVI WIGDERSON,
Institute for Advanced Study
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis
SHIRI ARTSTEIN-AVIDAN,
Tel-Aviv University
2009-10
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications
April 21-23, 2010
DARRELL DUFFIE,
Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at The Graduate
School of Business, Stanford University,
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications
TBA, Spring 2010
NICOLE EL KAROUI,
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique
Director of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique.
Head of the Financial Modeling Group, at the Center for Applied
Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique.
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program on the Foundations of Computational Mathematics
November 23- 25, 2009
ÉVA TARDOS,
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on the Foundations of Computational Mathematics -
September 16-18, 2009
HENDRIK LENSTRA,
Mathematisch Instituut, Universiteit Leiden
Modelling finite fields
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Mathematics in Quantum Information
August 17,18,20
MATTHEW B. HASTINGS,
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Audio
of talk)
2008-09
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on o-minimal structures and real analytic geometry
May 25-27, 2009
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE
YOCCOZ, Collège de France Audio
of Talk)
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Arithmetic Geometry, Hyperbolic Geometry and Related
Topics
November 12-14, 2008
YUM-TONG SIU,
Harvard Audio of talk)
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program on Arithmetic Geometry, Hyperbolic Geometry and Related
Topics
September 29-October 3, 2008
SHOU-WU ZHANG,
Columbia University (Audio of
Talk)
Periods, Heights, L-values
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program on Mathematical and Quantitative Oncology
August 6-8, 2008
MARTIN NOWAK,
Harvard University (Audio of Talk)
August 6 - Somatic Evolution of Cancer
August 7 - Evolution of Cooperation
August 8 - Prevolutionary Dynamics (the origin of life)
2007-08
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Operator Algebras
May 28-30, 2008
ALAIN
CONNES, Collège de France
May 28- The spectral characterization of manifolds
May 29 - A CKM invariant in Riemannian geometry
May 30 - About the field with one element
Distinguished Lectures
Thematic Program on New Trends in Harmonic Analysis
April 9,10,11 2008
TIM GOWERS,
University of Cambridge (Audio
and Slides)
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program on New Trends in Harmonic Analysis
February 25-27, 2008
JILL PIPHER,
Brown University Audio and Slides
Multi-parameter Fourier Analysis
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Operator Algebras
November 5-7, 2007
UFFE
HAAGERUP, Odense (Audio
and Slides)
Free probability and the invariant subspace problem for von
Neumann algebras
2006-07
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program on Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory
May 14, 15, 17, 2007
MICHAEL HOPKINS,
Harvard University (Audio
of talk)
May 14 - Classical and quantum invariants of manifolds
May 15 - Homotopy invariance of string topology
May 17 - The topological WZW space of conformal blocks
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in Cryptography
November 22-23, 2006 at 3:30 p.m.
SHAFI GOLDWASSER,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Audio
of talk)
Limits of Obfuscation
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in Cryptography
September 25-27, 2006
GERHARD FREY,
Institut für Experimentelle Mathematik, Universität
Duisburg-Essen (Audio of talk)
Duality Theorems in Arithmetic Geometry and Applications
2005-06
Coxeter Lectures
Thematic Program on Holomorphic Dynamics, Laminations, and
Hyperbolic Geometry --
March 27-29, 2006
YAIR MINSKY,
Yale (Audio of
talk)
Curve complexes, surfaces and 3-manifolds
Distinguished Lectures
Thematic Program on Holomorphic Dynamics, Laminations, and Hyperbolic
Geometry
January 9-11, 2006
GREGORY MARGULIS,
Yale (Audio of
talk)
January 9-- Irrational quadratic forms I.
January 10 -- Indefinite qiadratic forms II
January 11 - On one interesting class of functions on the
space of lattices
Coxeter Lectures
Thematic Program on Renormalization and Universality in Mathematics
and Mathematical Physics
November 23-25, 2005
LAI-SANG
YOUNG, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Audio
of talk)
A mathematical theory of strange attractors
Coxeter Lectures
Thematic Program on Renormalization and Universality in Mathematics
and Mathematical Physics
September 13-15, 2005
ODED SCHRAMM,
Microsoft (Audio
of talk)
Scaling limits of two dimensional random systems
2004-05
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in the Geometry of String Theory-
M AY 9-11, 2005
RENATA
KALLOSH, Physics, Stanford (Audio
of talk)
Talk 1: Towards String Cosmology
Talk 2: Stabilization of moduli in string theory I
Talk 3: Stabilization of moduli in string theory II
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in the Geometry of String Theory
April 4-7, 2005
EDWARD WITTEN,
IAS, Princeton
(Audio of talk)
Lecture 1: Relativistic Scattering Theory
Lecture 2: Gauge Symmetry Breaking
Lecture 3: The Quantum Hall Effect
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in the Geometry of String Theory
January 17-20, 2005
ROBBERT
DIJKGRAAF,
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam
(Audio and Slides)
Lecture 1:The Mathematics of String Theory
Lecture 2: Topological String Theory I
Lecture3: Topological String Theory II
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in the Geometry of String Theory-(Audio
of talk)
November 15-17, 2004
NIGEL
HITCHIN, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
Lecture 1:Open orbits and geometrical structures
Lecture 2: Instantons and bihermitian metrics
Lecture 3: Geometry with B-fields
2003-04
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Pogram in Partial Differential Equations
May 10-13, 2004
JEAN BOURGAIN,
I.A.S., Princeton and Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Audio
of talk)
Qualitative aspects of Hamiltonian PDE's and lattice models
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in Partial Differential Equations
May 3-5, 2004
SERGEI KUKSIN,
Heriot-Watt (Audio and
slides)
Mathematics of 2D Statistical Hydrodynamics
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in Partial Differential Equations
October 20-22, 2003
L. CRAIG EVANS,
University of California, Berkeley (Audio
and slides)
Lecture 1: Introduction, optimal mass transfer
Lecture 2: Weak KAM theory for dynamics
Lecture 3: Calculus of variations in the max-norm
2002-03
Distinguished Lectures Thematic
Program in Automorphic Forms
April 9-11, 2003
PETER SARNAK,
Princeton University (Audio
of talk)
Automorphic L-functions and equidistribution
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in Automorphic Forms
March 10 - 12, 2003
STEPHEN
S. KUDLA, University of Maryland (Audio
of Talk)
Arithmetic theta series
Coxeter Lectures Thematic
Program in Set Theory and Analysis
November 4-6, 2002
HUGH WOODIN,
University of California, Berkeley (Audio
of Talk)
1) The Continuum Hypothesis and the $\Omega$ Conjecture
2) Strong Axioms: Determinacy and Large Cardinals
3) Extender Sequences and Beyond
2001-02
Coxeter Lectures Numerical
and Computational Challenges in Science and Engineering
March 11-14, 2002
RANDALL LEVEQUE,
Applied Mathematics Department, University of Washington
Solving Wave Propagation Problems in Heterogeneous Media
Coxeter Lectures Numerical
and Computational Challenges in Science and Engineering
October 29, 30, November 1, 2001
GENE GOLUB,
Stanford University
Matrices, Moments and Quadrature
2000-01
Distinguished Lectures Summer
School in Quantum Information Processing
May 17-18, 2001
PETER
SHOR, (AT&T)
'Quantum Computing and Capacities of Quantum Channels'
Coxeter Lectures Symplectic
Topology, Geometry, and Gauge Theory Program
March 12-14, 2001
ALEXANDER B. GIVENTAL,
University of California at Berkeley
'Gromov - Witten invariants in higher genus'
Coxeter Lectures Infinite
Dimensional Lie Theory and Its Applications Program
Dec. 5-7, 2000
GRAEME SEGAL,
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
'The Idea of Space in String Theory '
1999-2000
Coxeter Lectures Graph Theory
and Combinatorial Optimization Program
January 17-19, 2000
PAUL SEYMOUR,
Princeton University
- An Introduction to Graph Minors
-Graph Minors: Sketches of Some Proofs
-Graph Minors: Current Research
Coxeter Lectures Graph Theory
and Combinatorial Optimization Program
November 1-3, 1999
LÁSZLÓ
LOVÁSZ, Microsoft Research
'Geometric Representations of Graphs'
1998-99
Coxeter Lectures Probability
and Its Applications Program
May 11-12, 1999
RICHARD DURRETT, Cornell University
'DNA repeat sequences'
'Stochastic spatial models; easy as 1, 2, 3'
'Scaling limits of particle systems'
Distinguished Lectures Program
in Probability and its Applications
October 1-2, 1998
PIERRE-GILLES
DE GENNES, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie
Industrielles de la Ville de Paris
Branched polymers and the Ariadne length
Sand dunes: how they form, how they move
From rice to snow: some problems of granular matter
1998-97
Distinguished Lectures
April 14-15, 1998
AVI WIGDERSON ,
Institute for Advanced Study
'A Computational View of Randomness'
'Tight Hardness vs. Randomness Trade-offs'
Coxeter Lectures Complexity
Theory Program
Feb 23-27, 1998
ALEXANDER A. RAZBOROV, Steklov
Mathematical Institute
'Complexity of proofs and computations'
'Natural proofs and feasible proofs of circuit lower bounds'
'Read-once branching programs and regular resolution'
Coxeter Lectures Microlocal
Methods in Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Physics Program
November 3-7, 1997
VLADIMIR BUSLAEV,
St.Petersburg University
' Scattering of nonlinear waves'
' Connection between the singular spectrum of linear operators
and the theory of dynamical systems'
' Spectral theory of the difference equations with periodic coefficients'
Distinguished Lectures
October 27-31, 1997
RICHARD B. MELROSE,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'Scattering Theory, Travelling Waves and Geodesic '
T'he Scattering Matrix, Trace Formulae and Asymptotics'
'Invertibility, Index Formulae and Global Invariants'
1997-96
Distinguished Lectures
June 16-20, 1997
VLADIMIR ARNOL'D, Steklov
Mathematical Institute and Université de Paris-Dauphine
'From the Hilbert Superposition Problem to Dynamical Systems'
'Polymathematics: Symplectization, Complexification, and So On'
'Topologically Necessary Wavefront Singularities, the Sturm-Hurwitz
Theorem on Fourier Series and Higher Derivative' 'Extensions of
Morse (Conley-Zehnder-Chekanov-Chaperon-Floer) Theory'
Conference in
Honour of Vladimir Arnol'd
Distinguished Lectures
May 5-7, 1997
MIKHAEL GROMOV, Institut des Hautes Études
Scientifiques, University of Maryland and Courant Institute
'Geometry and Complexity'
Coxeter Lectures Singularity
Theory and Geometry Program - Coxeter Lecture Series
March 10, 12, 13, 1997
ALEX J. WILKIE,
Mathematics Institute, Oxford University
'O-Minimal Tarski Systems: Theory and Examples'
1996-95
Distinguished Lectures
May 10-13, 1996
SERGEI V. NOVIKOV, Steklov Mathematical Institute
'Laplace and Darboux Transformations: Exactly Solvable One-
and Two-Dimensional Schrödinger Operators '
'Some Topological Phenomena in the Theory of Metals'
Distinguished Lecture Series
April 21, 1996
ROBERT MACPHERSON, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University
Topology of Spaces with Torus Actions
Distinguished Lectures
October 23, 1995
ANDREW WILES, Princeton University
'Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves'
(Also, Public Lecture on Fermat's Last Theorem)
Distinguished Lectures
October 1995
RAOUL BOTT, Harvard University
'The Group of Gauge Transformations -- Our Gift from the Physicists'
(Held in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)
Distinguished Lectures
August 25, 1995
ROGER PENROSE, University of Oxford
Thoughts On Geometry, Computability And Tiling Problems
1994-95
Distinguished Lectures
June 21-23, 1995
CHARLES FEFFERMAN, Princeton University
'Electrons and Protons in Magnetic Fields'
Distinguished Lectures
June 9 - 11, 1995
ALAIN CONNES, Collège de France
'Hecke Algebras, Type III Factors and Phase Transitions with
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking'
Distinguished Lectures
March 3-7, 1995
DAN VOICULESCU, University of California, Berkeley
'Free Probability Theory'
'Random Matrices and Operator Algebras'
'Free Entropy'
Distinguished Lectures
May 16, 1994
DAVID MUMFORD, Harvard University
Mathematical Models for Thought - Markov Random Fields and
Pointer Variables - and Links with Neurobiology
Distinguished Lectures
May 16, 1994
NANCY KOPELL, University of Boston
'Oscillating Networks of Neurons: What Makes Them Tick?'
1993-94
Distinguished Lectures
March 25-29, 1994
GERD FALTINGS, Princeton University
'Diophantine Approximation'
'The Product Theorem '
'Abelian Varieties'
'Projective Spaces'
1992-93
Distinguished Lectures
May 29, 1993
SIR MICHAEL ATIYAH, Director, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
Geometry and Quantum Mechanics
Distinguished Lectures
October 20-24, 1992
MICHAEL BERRY, University of Bristol
Quantum to Classical Asymptotics, Chaology, and the Riemann
Zeros
Distinguished Lectures
September 23 - 25, 1992
VAUGHAN JONES, University of California, Berkeley
Lectures on Subfactors, Knots and Spin Models
1991-92
Distinguished Lectures
June 11, 1992
STEPHEN SMALE, University of California, Berkeley
Bezout's Theorem and Complexity Theory
Distinguished Lectures
June 10 - 11, 1992
PHILLIP GRIFFITHS, Director, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton
'Characteristic Cohomology of Differential Systems'
'Conservation Laws for Differential Systems'
'Exterior Differential System'
