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