Upcoming Lectures

An ODE to Statistics: Data Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamics

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Burke Science Building (BSB), Room B135

Targeted Machine Learning and Integral Projection Models

Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: BSB, Room B135

V-Statistics and Variance Estimation: Inference for Ensemble Methods

Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: BSB, Room B135

There is No Free Variable Importance: Bias and Uncertainty in Explainable AI

Friday, October 10, 2025
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Hamilton Hall, Room 305

 

Britton Lecture Series:

Year	Lecturer	Topic
2024-25	Henry Schenck Auburn University	Algebraic Geometry in Unexpected Places: Applications and Computations
2022-23	Suncica Canic University of California, Berkeley	A Mathematical Approach to the Design of a Bioartificial Pancreas
2021-22	Samit Dasgupta Duke University	Stark units, Regulators, and Hilbert’s 12th problem: an introduction to special values of L-functions Link to Video Recordings
2020-21	Richard Schwartz Brown University	Things you can do with simple shapes and a computer Link to video recordings
2019-20	Thomas Scanlon University of California, Berkeley	Differential and difference equations through model theory
2018-19	Susan Holmes Stanford University	Combining statistics and geometry for effective data integration Link to video recordings
2017-2018	Rene Carmona Princeton University	Mean Field Games: Theory and Applications over a Decade after their Introduction
2016-2017	Frederick Adler University of Utah	Unifying mathematical principles across the biological sciences: from viruses and bacteria to ants and plants Link to video recordings
2015-2016	Ingrid Daubechies Duke University	Selected Topics in Applied Mathematics
2014-2015	Craig Evans University of California at Berkeley	Nonlinearity and partial differential equations: some recent perspectives
2013-2014	Henri Darmon McGill University	Elliptic curves and Artin representations
2012–2013	Martin Bridson University of Oxford	Non-positive curvature in group theory
2011–2012	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Courant Institute, New York University	Some infinite or large dimensional problems. Interacting particle systems.
2010–2011	Gerhard Huisken Max-Planck Institute	Analytic and geometric properties of mean curvature flow
2009–2010	Nick Trefethen Oxford University	Numerical computation with a sense of history
2008–2009	Ravi Vakil Stanford University	Moduli spaces in algebraic geometry
2007–2008	Chris Rogers University of Cambridge	Optimal investment
2006–2007	Donald Dawson Carleton University	Stochastic population systems and measure-valued processes
2005–2006	Toniann Pitassi University of Toronto	Propositional proof complexity
2004–2005	David Rand University of Warwick	Mathematical challenges of systems biology
2003–2004	Dr. Haim Brezis Universite Pierre et Marie Curie & Rutgers University	The Ginzburg-Landau model: An amazing source of new problems and results in analysis & topology
2002–2003	John Coates Cambridge University	Iwasawa algebras and arithmetic
2001–2002	Robion Kirby University of California, Berkeley	Lectures on Ozsvath and Szabo’s Floer-homology for 3-manifolds
2000–2001	David Brillinger University of California, Berkeley	Random process data analysis: concepts & examples
1999–2000	Peter Schneider Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat	p-adic representation theory
1998–1999	David C. Brydges University of Virginia	Analysis with functional integrals
1997–1998	Neil S. Trudinger Australian National University	Isoperimetric inequalities & Hessian operators
1996–1997	Anand Pillay University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Model theory, algebra & number theory: some recent interactions
1995–1996	R.V. Moody University of Alberta	Meyer sets and aperiodic crystals
1994–1995	Carlos E. Kenig University of Chicago, Chicago	Oscillatory integrals and non-linear dispersive differential equations
1993–1994	Ronnie Lee Yale University	Instantons and three-manifolds
1992–1993	Joseph J. Kohn Princeton University	Pseudodifferential operators and several complex variables
1991–1992	Ronald L. Graham AT&T Bell Laboratories	Quasi-randomness in combinatorics
1990–1991	Samuel Karlin Stanford University	Mathematical & statistical problems associated with protein and DNA sequences
1989–1990	Michael Aizenman Courant Institute, New York University	Adventures in statistical mechanics
1988–1989	Richard M. Schoen Stanford University	Variational problems for Riemannian metrics
1987–1988	Victor P. Snaith University of Western Ontario	Artin L-functions
1986–1987	Jerry L. Bona Pennsylvania State University	Solitons
1985–1986	Frank H. Clarke Centre de Recherche Mathematiques, University of Montreal	Non-smooth optimization
1984–1985	C.R. Rao University of Pittsburgh	Characterizations of probability distributions
1983–1984	Dana S. Scott Carnegie-Mellon University	Logic and computing
1982–1983	Marvin Shinbrot University of Victoria	The Boltzmann equation
1981–1982	Louis Nirenberg Courant Institute,  New York University	Variational and topological methods in nonlinear problems
1980–1981	Peter J. Hilton Case Western Reserve University	Nilpotency as a link between group theory and homotopy theory
1979–1980	Ian N. Sneddon University of Glasgow	Integral transforms and fractional integration in elasticity theory
1978–1979	Paul L. Butzer Technical University of Aachen	The Banach-Steinhaus theorem, generalizations of the Shannon sampling theorem