Mordell Lectures


2003-05-13 17:00: Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms (Professor Mike Hopkins, MIT)

2004-05-25 17:00: Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics (Professor Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University)

2005-05-17 17:00: The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations (Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton)

2006-05-09 17:00: Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists (Professor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University)

2007-05-08 17:00: Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation (Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH-Zurich)

2008-10-30 17:00: Geometric PDE (Prof Tobias Colding (MIT))

2009-05-07 17:00: KAM and Rigidity (Professor Anatole Katok (Penn State University))

2011-04-28 17:00: Short presentations of finite groups (Alex Lubotzky)

2012-06-14 17:00: Categorical dynamics (Paul Seidel (MIT))

2014-07-03 17:00: The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space (Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago))

2015-06-01 17:00: The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem (Daniel Spielman (Yale))

2016-05-20 17:30: Why Mathematical Proof? (Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) )

2017-06-08 17:00: Complex dynamics and elliptic curves (Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University))

2018-05-03 17:00: Cohomology of the moduli space of curves (Rahul Pandharipande (ETH))

2019-03-21 16:00: Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions (Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem)

2022-03-10 16:00: Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach (Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon)

2023-05-04 17:00: Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions (Aad van der Vaart (Delft))

2024-05-02 16:00: Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos (Rob Morris (IMPA Rio))

2025-05-01 16:00: Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory (Tim Austin (Warwick))

2026-04-28 16:00: How Much Does Homology Really Know? (Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster))