Past Nelson Lectures:
Year |
Lecturer |
Topic |
| 2022-2023 | Anush Tserunyan Ohio State |
A descriptive set theorist’s approach to pointwise ergodic theorems |
| 2021-2022 | Chris Miller Ohio State |
Tameness and metric dimensions in expansions of the real field |
| 2020-2021 | Ehud Hrushovski | On the logic of finite fields (with an additive character.) |
| 2019-2020 | Dragos Ghioca University of British Columbia |
Invariant varieties under the action of one-variable polynomials |
| 2018-2019 | Maryanthe Malliaris University of Chicago |
Model theory and ultraproducts |
| 2017-2018 | Julia Gordon UBC and Cornell |
Uniform integration |
| 2016-2017 | Ross Willard Department of Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo |
Finiteness conditions on the equational laws of finite algebraic structures |
| 2015-2016 | Philipp Hieronymi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Dimensional concordance and logical tameness |
| 2014-2015 | Jaroslav Nesetril Charles University |
Homomorphisms, Ramsey theory and structural limits |
| 2013-2014 | Ilijas Farah York University |
Logic and the classification of C*-algebras |
| 2012–2013 | Philipp Habegger Princeton Univeristy and Frankfurt |
Non-Archimedean approximations by special points |
| 2011–2012 | Michael Singer North Carolina State University |
Factorization of partial differential operators and differential algebraic groups |
| 2010–2011 | Sergei Starchenko Notre Dame University |
O-minimality and Diophantine geometry |
| 2009–2010 | Alasdair Urquhart University of Toronto |
Von Neumann, Godel and complexity theory |
| 2008–2009 | Alex Wilkie Manchester University |
Model theory and analytic continuation for implicitly defined functions |
| 2007–2008 | Phokion Kolaitis IBM Almaden Research Center |
Constraint satisfaction, complexity, and logic |
| 2006–2007 | Julia Knight Notre Dame |
Comparing classes of structures |
| 2005–2006 | Michael Shub University of Toronto |
Computing over the real and complex numbers |
| 2004–2005 | Thomas Scanlon University of California, Berkeley |
A logical perspective on difference equations |
| 2003–2004 | Ya’acov Peterzil Haifa |
Definable groups in o-minimal structures |
| 2002–2003 | Alexander Kechris California Institute of Technology |
Applications of ergodic theory to set theory |
| 2001–2002 | Patrick Speissegger University of Wisconsin |
Constructing o-minimal structures |
| 2000–2001 | Dugald Macpherson University of Leeds |
Reconstructing models from their automorphism groups |
| 1999–2000 | Toni Pitassi University of Arizona |
A new proof of the weak pigeonhole principle |
| 1998–1999 | Olga Kharlampovich McGill University |
Equations and first-order formulas over free and fully residually free groups |
| 1996–1997 | Chris Laskowski University of Maryland |
What do the law of large numbers, PAC learning, neural networks and model theory have in common? |
| 1994–1995 | Askold Khovanskii University of Toronto |
Newton polyhedra |
| 1994–1995 | Dave Marker University of Illinois, Chicago |
Model theory and exponentiation |
| 1993–1994 | Lou van den Dries University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Logic and local fields |
| 1992–1993 | Ralph McKenzie University of California, Berkeley |
Equations, lattices and structure: sixty years of research in universal algebra |
| 1991–1992 | Angus Macintyre University of Oxford |
Model theory of analytic functions |