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Past Lecture Series
Asprey lecturers
- 1991–92: Stephen Smale, Chaos and the Godel Incompleteness Theorem
- 1992–93: William P. Thurston, An Introduction to the Geometry and Topology of Three-dimensional Manifolds
- 1993–94: Kenneth Ribet, Fermat’s Last Theorem
- 1994–95: John H. Conway, Shapes and Symmetries
- 1995–96: Joan Birman, Knots, Differential Equations, and Chaos
- 1996–97: Angus MacIntyre, What Can Logic Tell Us About the Real Exponential Function?
- 1997–98: Charles Fefferman, Atoms, Numbers, and Stars
- 1999–2000: Sir Michael Atiyah, Atoms, Knots, and Elementary Particles
- 2000–01: Vaughan Jones, Noncommutative Geometry for Dummies
- 2002–03: Peter Neumann, The Memoirs of Évariste Galois
- 2003–04: Hendrik Lenstra, Escher and the Droste Effect
- 2004–05: Jeff Weeks, The Shape of Space
- 2005–06: Ken Ono, Number Theory: Partitions and the Legacy of Dyson and Ramanujan
- 2006–07: Jon Kleinberg, Modeling the Web, Mining my E-mail, and Other Perspectives on the Information Revolution
- 2007–08: Avi Wigderson, A world view through the computational lens
- 2008–09: Margaret Wright, The Remarkable Saga of Linear Programming: the Problem, the Methods, the Continuing Mysteries
- 2009–10: Günter Ziegler, Proofs for THE BOOK
- 2010–2011: Trachette Jackson, Mathematical Biology: An Essential Part of 21st Century Science (postponed to Fall 2011)
- 2012–13: Martin Nowak, Evolution of Cooperation
- 2013–14: Leila Schneps, Mathematics in the Courtroom: Uncharted Territory
- 2014–15: Erik Demaine
- 2015–16: Don Saari, We vote, but do we elect whom we really should?
- 2016–17: W. Hugh Woodin, A short story of large infinities and small sets
- 2017–18: Maria Chudnovsky, Parties, doughnuts and coloring; some problems in graph theory
- 2018–19: Andrea Bertozzi, Mathematics of Crime (delayed to Fall 2019)
HSW
- 2013–14: Loki Natarajan, Biomedical Research from Cell to Community: a Statistician’s Perspective
- 2014–15: Frank Morgan, Math Chat TV
- 2015–16: Susan Murphy, Healing with Data: Adaptive Interventions
- 2017–18: Megan Price, Does the Truth Matter? How data analysis can contribute to accountability