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Frontiers in Mathematics Lecture Series: Past Speakers

2014-2015

  • Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
  • Zhenghan Wang (Microsoft Research)
  • Claude Bardos (University of Paris)

2013-2014

  • Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
  • Mark Green (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Andrei Agrachev (SISSA-ISAS, Italy)

2012-2013

  • Marc Rieffel (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Ricardo Nochetto (University of Minnesota)
  • John Boyd (University of Michigan)
  • David Colton (University of Delaware)
  • Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago)
  • Assaf Naor (Courant Institute)

2009-2010

  • Nigel Kalton (University of Missouri) Analysis
  • Gil Kalai (Hebrew University and Yale University) Combinatorics and Geometry
  • Alfio Quarteroni (EPFL, Lausanne and Politecnico di Milano, Milan) Numerical Analysis
  • Amos Ron (University of Wisconsin) Approximation Theory
  • Frank Natterer (University of Münster) Applied Mathematics
  • Michael Eastwood (Australian National University) Geometry

2008-2009

  • Toshikazu Sunada (Meiji University) Geometric Analysis
  • Roger Temam (Indiana University) Applied Mathematics
  • K. Soundararajan (Stanford University) Number Theory
  • H. Blaine Lawson, Jr. (SUNY, Stonybrook) Geometry
  • Michel Brion (University of Grenoble) Algebraic Geometry

2007-2008

  • Borislav Bojanov (University of Sofia) Approximation Theory
  • Ngaiming Mok (University of Hongkong) Geometry
  • Jean-Pierre Demailly (University of Grenoble) Geometry
  • Tai-Ping Liu (Academia Sinica(Taiwan)/Stanford) PDE
  • John Smillie (Cornell University) Dynamical Systems
  • Michael Larsen (Indiana University) Algebra
  • Alexander Nagel (University of Wisconsin) Several Complex Variables

2006-2007

  • Steve Zelditch (Johns Hopkins University) PDE/Mathematical Physics
  • Edward Odell (University of Texas) Functional Analysis
  • Nigel Higson (Penn State University) Operator Algebras
  • Jonathan Keating (University of Bristol) Mathematical Physics
  • Andrei Zelevinsky (Northeastern University) Representation Theory
  • Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University) Several Complex Variables
  • Bernard Shiffman (Johns Hopkins University) Complex Analysis/Geometry

2005-2006

  • Preda Mihailescu (Univ. Göttingen) Number Theory
  • Nikolai Nikolskii (Univ. Bordeaux/Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg) Functional Analysis
  • Richard Stanley (MIT) Combinatorics
  • Albert Cohen (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie) Harmonic Analysis/Applied Maths
  • Roger Fosdick (Univ. Minnesota) Mechanics
  • Doron Lubinsky (Georgia Tech) Approximation Theory
  • Phillip Griffiths (IAS) Geometry
  • Gregori Margulis (Yale University) Lie Groups
  • Dietmar Bisch (Vanderbilt University) Functional Analysis

2004-2005

  • Stephan De Bièvre (Université de Lille) Mathematical Physics
  • Jack Snoeyink (University of North Carolina) Computational Geometry
  • Leonid Pastur (Université de Paris) Random Matrices
  • Guoliang Yu (Vanderbilt University) Noncommutative Geometry
  • Anatole Katok (Penn State University) Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
  • Mikhail Shubin (Northeastern University) PDEs and Geometric Analysis
  • Bernardo Cockburn (University of Minnesota) Numerical Analysis
  • Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University) Group Theory
  • Joseph Silverman (Brown University) Number Theory
  • Artur Ekert (University of Cambridge) Quantum Computation

2003-2004

  • Harold Stark (UCSD) Number Theory
  • Michel Delfour (University of Montreal) Control Theory
  • Edward Effros (UCLA) Operator Spaces
  • Jerzy Weyman (Northeastern University) Algebraic Geometry
  • Alexander Schrijver (NRI, The Netherlands) Combinatorial Optimization
  • Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington) Partial Differential Equations
  • Efim Zelmanov (UCSD) Algebra
  • Vern Paulsen (University of Houston) Functional Analysis
  • Charles Chui (University of Missouri, St. Louis) Approximation Theory

2002-2003

  • Allan Pinkus (Technion) Approximation Theory
  • Jean-Louis Loday (Université de Strasbourg) Algebra
  • Bernard Chevreau (Université de Bordeaux) Functional Analysis
  • Alan Edelman (MIT) Computational Mathematics
  • Guyan Robertson (University of Newcastle) Functional Analysis
  • Ron Graham (UCSD) Combinatorics
  • Yanyan Li (Rutgers University) Partial Differential Equations
  • Jonathan Borwein (Simon Fraser University) Computational Analysis
  • David Cox (Amherst College) Algebraic Geometry

2001-2002

  • Bruno Buchberger (Johannes Kepler University) Mathematical Programming
  • Aleksander Pelczynski (Polish Academy of Sciences) Functional Analysis
  • Rostislav Grigorchuk (Steklov Institute) Group Theory
  • Gerhard Huisken (University of Tübingen) Differential Geometry
  • Ulrich Langer (Johannes Kepler University) Numerical Analysis
  • Joel Spencer (Courant Institute) Combinatorics
  • Lawrence Sirovich (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Applied Mathematics
  • Herbert Clemens (University of Utah) Algebraic Geometry
  • John Benedetto (University of Maryland) Harmonic Analysis

2000-2001

  • Eitan Tadmor (U. C. L. A.) Numerical Analysis
  • Bruce Blackadar (University of Nevada) Operator Algebras
  • Edward Saff (University of South Florida) Approximation Theory
  • Peter Constantin (University of Chicago) Partial Differential Equations
  • Doron Zeilberger (Temple University) Combinatorics
  • Michael Range (SUNY at Albany) Several Complex Variables
  • Anthony Lau (University of Alberta) Abstract Harmonic Analysis

1999-2000

  • Linda Rothschild (U. C., San Diego) Complex analysis
  • Vilmos Totik (Bolyai Institute) Approximation theory
  • Hyam Rubinstein (University of Melbourne) Low dimensional manifolds
  • Jindrich Necas (Charles University) Fluid dynamics
  • Thomas Bridges (University of Surrey) Control theory
  • Ciprian Foias (Indiana University) Operator theory
  • Stuart Antman (University of Maryland) Applied mathematics
  • Paul Baum (Pennsylvania State University) Operator algebras
  • John Guckenheimer (Cornell University) Dynamical systems
  • Günter Ziegler (Technical University, Berlin) Geometry

1998-1999

  • Belá Bollobás (University of Memphis) Graph theory
  • Kenneth Davidson (University of Waterloo) Operator algebras
  • Timothy Gowers (Cambridge University) Banach spaces
  • Roger Howe (Yale University) Lie groups
  • Jean-Pierre Rosay (University of Wisconsin) Complex analysis
  • James Stasheff (University of North Carolina) Algebraic topology
  • Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (University of Alberta) Banach spaces
  • Wolfgang Wendland (University of Stuttgart) Numerical analysis
  • John Wermer (Brown University) Complex analysis
  • Margaret Wright (Lucent Technologies) Optimization

1997-1998

  • William Arveson (U. C., Berkeley) Operator theory
  • Ronald DeVore (University of South Carolina) Approximation theory
  • Victor Kac (M. I. T.) Algebra
  • Steven Krantz (Washington University) Complex analysis
  • Peter Lax (Courant Institute) Partial differential equations
  • Claude LeBrun (SUNY at Stony Brook) Differential geometry
  • Peter Li (U. C., Irvine) Differential geometry
  • Joyce McLaughlin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Inverse problems
  • Michael Struwe (E. T. H., Zürich) Differential geometry
  • Charles Weibel (Rutgers University) Algebraic K-theory
  • Christopher Zeeman (Oxford University) Dynamical systems

1996-1997

  • Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University) Differential geometry
  • James Glimm (SUNY at Stony Brook) Applied mathematics
  • Richard Hain (Duke University) Algebraic geometry
  • William Jaco (Oklahoma State University) Algebraic topology
  • Rainer Kress (University of Göttingen) Inverse problems
  • Robert Moody (University of Alberta) Algebra
  • Sorin Popa (U. C. L. A.) Operator algebras
  • Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas) Differential geometry
  • Guido Weiss (Washington University) Harmonic analysis

1995-1996

  • Michael Artin (M. I. T.) Commutative algebra
  • Peter Borwein (Simon Fraser University) Approximation theory
  • Paul Erdös (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Combinatorics
  • Robert Hardt (Rice University) Differential geometry
  • Blaine Lawson (SUNY at Stony Brook) Algebraic topology
  • Richard Schoen (Stanford University) Differential geometry
  • Bernd Sturmfels (U. C., Berkeley) Computational algebraic geometry
  • Mary Wheeler (University of Texas) Scientific computation

1994-1995

  • Randolph Bank (U. C., San Diego) Control theory
  • Uffe Haagerup (Odense University) Operator algebras
  • Sze-Bi Hsu (National Tsinghua University) Control theory
  • Mourad Ismail (University of South Florida) Special Functions
  • Robert Kohn (Courant Institute) Partial differential equations
  • Robert Krasny (University of Michigan) Fluid mechanics
  • James Lyness (Argonne National Laboratory) Numerical analysis
  • John Maddocks (University of Maryland) Applied mathematics
  • Michael Pedersen (The Technical University of Denmark) Partial differential equations
  • Lawrence Shepp (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Probability
  • Gang Tian (Courant Institute) Differential geometry
  • Vidar Thomée (University of Goteborg) Numerical analysis
  • Andries van der Walt (University of Stellenbosch) Ring theory
  • Glen Webb (Vanderbilt University) Mathematical biology
  • Richard Wiegandt (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Ring theory
  • Nicholas Yannelis (University of Illinois) Mathematical economics

1993-1994

  • David Barrett (University of Michigan) Complex analysis
  • Alain Bensoussan (I. N. R. I. A.) Stochastic analysis
  • James Bramble (Cornell University) Numerical analysis
  • Wolfgang Dahmen (University of Aachen) Approximation theory
  • Ingrid Daubechies (Rutgers University) Wavelets
  • Edward Fadell (University of Wisconsin) Algebraic topology
  • Andrew Granville (University of Georgia) Number theory
  • John Meldrum (Edinburgh University) Ring theory
  • Charles Micchelli (IBM Watson Research Center) Approximation theory
  • Günther Pilz (Johannes Kepler University) Ring theory
  • Gilbert Strang (M. I. T.) Numerical analysis
  • Steven Weintraub (Louisiana State University) Algebraic topology
  • Brian White (Stanford University) Geometric analysis

1992-1993

  • Richard Askey (University of Wisconsin) Special Functions
  • Steven Bell (Purdue University) Complex analysis
  • David Colton (University of Delaware) Inverse problems
  • Ciprian Foias (Indiana University) Operator theory
  • Martin Gutzwiller (IBM Watson Research Center) Dynamical systems
  • Richard Miranda (Colorado State University) Algebraic geometry
  • Georg Rieger (University of Hanover) Number theory
  • Mary Rudin (University of Wisconsin) Topology
  • Walter Rudin (University of Wisconsin) Complex analysis
  • Allan Sinclair (Edinburgh University) Operator algebras
  • John Tate (University of Texas) Number theory
  • Dan Voiculescu (U. C., Berkeley) Operator algebras
  • Homer Walker (Utah State University) Numerical analysis