Britton Lecture Series:
Year |
Lecturer |
Topic |
| 2024-25 |
Henry Schenck |
Algebraic Geometry in Unexpected Places: Applications and Computations |
| 2022-23 |
Suncica Canic |
A Mathematical Approach to the Design of a Bioartificial Pancreas |
| 2021-22 |
Samit Dasgupta |
Stark units, Regulators, and Hilbert’s 12th problem: an introduction to special values of L-functions |
| 2020-21 | Things you can do with simple shapes and a computer | |
| 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
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| 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 |