| 2008-2009 |
Stephen Stigler
University of Chicago |
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Afternoon Lecture |
The Five Most Consequential Ideas in the History of
Statistics
Abstract |
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Evening Lecture |
Skill or Luck?
A Statistical Look at Tournament Golf
Abstract |
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| 2007-2008 |
Colin Clark
University of British Columbia |
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Afternoon Lecture |
Dynamic Models of Animal Behavior
Abstract
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Evening Lecture |
The Mathematics of Conservation
Abstract
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| 2006-2007 |
Barry Mazur
Harvard University |
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Afternoon Lecture |
Open Problems About Probability Distributions in Number
Theory
Abstract |
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Evening Lecture |
A Modern View of Classical Questions in Arithmetic
Abstract |
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| 2005-2006 |
Peter Winkler
Albert Bradley Third Century Professor in the Sciences
Dartmouth College |
| |
Afternoon Lecture |
Submodular Percolation
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Evening Lecture |
Mathematical Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard
Correctly
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| 2003-2004 |
Jeffrey Weeks
Mathematician and Author of The Shape of Space |
| |
Afternoon Lecture |
Workshop on Curved Space
Abstract
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Evening Lecture |
The Shape of Space
Abstract
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| 2002-2003 |
Frank Morgan
Dennis Meenan '54 Third Century Professor of Mathematics
Williams College |
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Afternoon Lecture |
Proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture
Abstract
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| Evening Lecture |
The Soap Bubble Geometry Contest
Abstract |
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| 2001-2002 |
George E. Andrews
Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University |
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Afternoon Lecture |
An Old Algorithm in a New Era
(Major MacMahon, you were born too soon!)
Abstract
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| Evening Lecture |
Ramanujan, Fibonacci Numbers and Continued Fractions
(Or, Why I took Zeckendorf's Theorem along on my last trip to Canada.)
Abstract |
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| 2000-2001 |
Kenneth A. Ribet
Professor of Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley |
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Afternoon Lecture |
Serre's Conjectures
Picture
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| Evening Lecture |
Fermat's Last Theorem and Other Diophantine Problems
Picture
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| 1999-2000 |
Jonathan M. Borwein
Gordon M. Shrum Professor of Science
Director, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics
Simon Fraser University |
|
Afternoon Lecture |
Experimental Mathematics and Exact Computation
Abstract
(pdf) |
| Evening Lecture |
The Impact of Technology on the Doing of Mathematics
Abstract
(pdf) |
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| 1998-1999 |
Carolyn S. Gordon
Professor of Mathematics
Dartmouth College |
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Afternoon Lecture |
When You Can't Hear the Shape of a Manifold
Abstract
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| Evening Lecture |
You Can't Hear the Shape of a Drum
Abstract
|
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| 1997-1998 |
Mary Ellen Rudin
Professor of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
|
Afternoon Lecture |
What is Topology? |
| Evening Lecture |
Women in Mathematics |
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| 1996-1997 |
László Lovász
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Yale University |
|
Afternoon Lecture |
Random Walk and Sampling |
| Evening Lecture |
Randomness: What is it and What is it Good For? |
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| 1995-1996 |
Frederick Mosteller
Roger Irving Lee Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Emeritus
Harvard University |
|
Afternoon Lecture |
Experiments in Ability Grouping and Class Size |
| Evening Lecture |
The Meaning of Probabilistic Expressions: How Likely is Likely?
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| 1994-1995 |
Saunders MacLane
Max Mason Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago |
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| 1993-1994 |
Persi Diaconis
Professor of Mathematics
Harvard University |
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| 1992-1993 |
John H. Conway
John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics
Princeton University |
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| 1991-1992 |
Paul R. Halmos
Professor of Mathematics
Santa Clara University |
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| 1990-1991 |
Bradley Efron
Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
Stanford University |
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| 1989-1990 |
Carl Pomerance
Research Professor of Mathematics
University of Georgia |
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| 1988-1989 |
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Professor of Mathematics
University of Bremen |
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| 1986-1987 |
Ronald L. Graham
Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Center
AT&T Bell Laboratories |