Dean Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures
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The 2011 Lewis Lecturer is TBA
Professor Jacqueline B. Lewis was a mathematician and former Dean of Rutgers' University College
in New Brunswick who died in 1982 after a career spanning nearly 20 years at Rutgers. She served
as an Associate Dean of University College from 1974 to 1978 and as Vice Dean of the school from
1978 to 1981, when she was appointed Dean. She also served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of
Professional Studies from June 1981 to September 1982. The lectures were endowed in 1983 by a
gift from Dean Lewis' aunt, Lillian Nassau.
Previous Lewis Lectures
| Lecturer | Date | Title | |
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| 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 Weinberger | October | 2004 | Themes in Quantitative Topology:
Problems and naive examples Computation, entropy, and variational problems Embeddings, symmetry, and rigidity |
| Andrei Okounkov | April | 2007 | Moduli of Curves and Combinatorics |
| Terence Tao | March | 2008 | Szemerédi'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 |
| Andrei Zelevinsky | April | 2010* |
Introduction to Cluster Algebras
Cluster Algebras of Finite Type and their Geometric Realizations Quivers with Potentials and Generalized Reflection Functors |
| Jennifer Tour Chayes | November | 2010 | The Mathematics of Dynamic Random Networks |
* - Postponed from 2009