Past Events

  • Lectures
Bergman Lecture
Date
Thursday, February 8, 2018. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Michael I Weinstein (Columbia University)

Taking inspiration from graphene, there has been a great deal of activity in the fundamental and applied physics communities related to the properties of waves (photonic, acoustic, elastic,…) in…

  • Lectures
Kai Lai Chung Lecture
Date
Thursday, November 9, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
James Norris (Cambridge)

In this talk I will discuss the phenomenon in which predictable large-scale behavior emerges from a combination of many simple microscopic random elements.

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Thursday, November 2, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Dan Freed (University of Texas at Austin)

Professor Freed has worked on a variety of problems in geometry, topology, and global analysis.

Date
Saturday, October 21, 2017. 3:00pm

Seating is very limited

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Thursday, October 5, 2017. 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Speaker:
Robbert Dijkgraaf (Institute for Advanced Study)

Many mathematical concepts trace their origins to everyday experience, from astronomy to mechanics.

  • Conferences & Workshops
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Monday, June 5, 2017. 9:45am

There will be a Memorial Symposium exploring parts of the life’s work of our late colleague,…

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Tuesday, May 23, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Professor Geordie Williamson (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn Germany)

I will discuss the Hecke category in its constructible and diagrammatic incarnations, and state recent theorems and conjectures which suggest that the Hecke category completely controls algebraic…

  • Conferences & Workshops
Date
Friday, May 19, 2017. 10:00am - Sunday, May 21, 2017. 6:00pm

In memory of Joseph B. Keller 

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Thursday, May 18, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Professor Geordie Williamson (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn Germany)

 I will discuss the geometric Satake equivalence and Finkelberg-Mirkovic conjecture.

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Tuesday, May 16, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Professor Geordie Williamson (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn Germany)

This will be a brief introduction to the world of algebraic representations

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Thursday, April 27, 2017. 3:00pm
Speaker:
Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute)

You can learn more about Ofer Zeitouni at http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~zeitouni/

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Wednesday, April 26, 2017. 4:15pm
Speaker:
Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute)

You can learn more about Ofer Zeitouni at http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~zeitouni/

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Thursday, April 20, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann Institute)

The solution to the one dimensional Fisher-KPP equation (1937)  starting from a step initial condition…

Date
Thursday, March 9, 2017. 4:30pm - 5:30pm

"Groups and random walks"

  • Lectures
Kai Lai Chung Lecture
Date
Thursday, March 9, 2017. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University)

Random walks, the process of partial sums of sequences of independent identically distributed random variables, are classical objects in probability theory and one of the main focuses in the work…