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Mathematics Department - Dean Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures

Dean Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures



The 2009 Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures have been postponed, and so there will be two sets of Lewis Lectures in 2010. The dates and speakers are:

  • April 5-9, 2010: Andrei Zelevinsky, Northeastern University
  • November 16-20, 2010: Jennifer T. Chayes, Microsoft Boston

The previous Lewis lectures are listed below.

Lecturer Date Title
Stephen Smale March 1984 The Topology of Classical Algorithms
G. D. Mostow March 1985 Braids, Hypergeometric Functions, and Lattices
Lipman Bers October 1985 Teichmüller Theory for Beginners
David Kazhdan March 1987 Representations of Reductive P-Adic Groups
H. Blaine Lawson April 1988 Algebraic Cycles
Paul Rabinowitz April 1989 Periodic Solutions of Hamiltonian Systems
Yasha G. Sinai April 1990 Random Behavior of Eigenvalues of Laplacians
Jurgen Moser March 1991 Stability in Dynamics and Minimal Solutions in the Calculus of Variations
L. Craig Evans March 1992 Compactness for Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Ian Macdonald March 1993 Symmetric Functions and Orthogonal Polynomial
V. I. Arnold November 1993 On Some Problems in Singularity Theory
Karen Uhlenbeck September 1994 Moduli Spaces of Solutions to PDE
Alain Connes April 1996 Gravity Coupled with Matter and the Foundation of Noncommutative Geometry
Don Zagier March 1997 Modular Forms and Differential Operators
Yves Meyer March 2000 Wavelets and Image Processing: Theory and Application to Denoising Hubble   Space Telescope Images;
Oscillations, Vibrations, Time-Frequency Analysis and the Virgo Program   (Detection of Gravitational Waves);
The Role of Oscillations in Some Non-Linear Evolution Equations: Application to   Navier-Stokes Equations
Graeme Segal April 2001 The Mathematical Structure of Quantum Field Theory;
Quantum Field Theory and K-Theory;
Quantum Field Theory and Representation Theory
Richard P. Stanley October, 2002 Six Recent Developments in Algebraic Combinatorics:
  The Laurent phenomenon; longest increasing subsequences
  The Saturation Conjecture; the n! Conjecture
  Gromov-Witten invariants; graphical degree sequences
Jean-Michel Coron October, 2003 Controllability and nonlinearity for some flow control systems
Shmuel WeinbergerOctober 2004Themes in Quantitative Topology:
  Problems and naive examples
  Computation, entropy, and variational problems
  Embeddings, symmetry, and rigidity
Andrei OkounkovApril, 2007 Moduli of Curves and Combinatorics
Terence TaoMarch, 2008Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma Revisited
Three Lectures on Discrete Random Matrices:
  Singularity and Determinant of Discrete Random Matrices
  The Least Singular Value of Discrete Random Matrices
  Eigenvalue Distributions of Discrete Random Matrices

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