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10-12 November 2009

Terence Tao

University of California, Los Angeles


Professor Tao will present three lectures on the following topics:
  • Lecture 1: Recent Progress in Additive Prime Number Theory. Abstract.
    4pm, Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 129 McKenzie
  • Lecture 2: Compressed Sensing. Abstract.
    4pm, Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 221 McKenzie
  • Lecture 3: Discrete Random Matrices. Abstract.
    4pm, Thursday, 12 November 2009, 221 McKenzie

7-9 May 2008

Professor William Fulton

University of Michigan


Professor Fulton will present three lectures on "Equivariant cohomology of homogeneous varieties":
  • Lecture 1: 4pm, Weednesday, 7 May 2008, 115 Lawrence.
  • Lecture 2: 4pm, Thursday, 8 May 2008, 115 Lawrence.
  • Lecture 3: 4pm, Friday, 9 May 2008, 115 Lawrence.

23-25 May 2007

Gerhard Huisken

Max Planck Institute of Gravitational Physics


Professor Huisken will present three lectures on the following topics:
  • Lecture 1: The heat equation and uniformisation in geometry.
    4pm, Wednesday, 23 May 2007, 221 McKenzie
  • Lecture 2: Isoperimetric inequalities and the concept of mass in General Relativity.
    4pm, Thursday, 24 May 2007, 204 Villard
  • Lecture 3: Isoperimetric inequalities via geometric evolution equations.
    4pm, Friday, 25 May 2007, 205 Deady
Click here for the abstracts (pdf).


15-17 March 2006

Victor Ginzburg

University of Chicago


Professor Ginzburg will present three lectures on "Noncommutative geometry and quiver algebras":
  • Lecture 1: Symplectic resolutions, their deformations and quantizations.
    4pm, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 106 Deady
  • Lecture 2: Noncommutative symplectic geometry, quivers, and matrix integrals.
    4pm, Thursday, 16 March 2006, 106 Deady
  • Lecture 3: Calabi-Yau algebras.
    4pm, Friday, 17 March 2006, 110 Willamette

25-27 April 2005

Richard Schoen

Stanford University


Professor Schoen will present three lectures:
  • Lecture 1: The Yamabe problem revisited
    4:00 p.m., Monday, 25 April 2005, 106 Deady Hall
  • Lecture 2: Global compactness theorems for constant scalar curvature metrics
    4:00 p.m., Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 106 Deady Hall
  • Lecture 3: Sharp isoperimetric inequalities for minimal surfaces in Euclidean space
    4:00 p.m., Wednesday, 27 April 2005, 110 Willamette Hall

12-16 April 2004

Maxim Kontsevich

IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France


Professor Kontsevich will present three lectures on Integral Affine Structures:
  • Lecture 1: Definitions and basic examples
    4:00 p.m., Monday, 12 April 2004, 100 Willamette Hall
  • Lecture 2: Non-Archimedean and tropical viewpoints
    4:00 p.m., Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 100 Willamette Hall
  • Lecture 3: Collapsing in mirror symmetry
    4:00 p.m., Friday, 16 April 2004, 110 Fenton Hall

14-18 January 2002

Victor Guillemin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Professor Guillemin will present the following three lectures:
  • Lecture 1: Betti numbers of polytopes and graphs
    4:00 p.m., Monday, 14 January 2002, 110 Fenton Hall
  • Lecture 2: The GKM theorem
    4:00 p.m., Wednesday, 16 January 2002, 110 Fenton Hall
  • Lecture 3: Multiplicative Morse theory for symplectic G-manifolds
    4:00 p.m., Friday, 18 January 2002, 110 Fenton Hall

25-27 October 2000

Dennis Sullivan

CUNY at Stony Brook


Professor Sullivan will present the following three lectures on Fluids, quantum theory and algebraic topology:
  • Lecture 1: Discrete modules
    4:00 p.m., Wednesday, 25 October 2000, 123 Pacific Hall
  • Lecture 2: Algebraic quantization
    4:00 p.m., Thursday, 26 October 2000, 110 Fenton Hall
  • Lecture 3: String topology
    4:00 p.m., Friday, 27 October 2000, 110 Fenton Hall

11-15 October 1999

Alexander Varchenko

University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill


Professor Varchenko will present the following lectures on multidimensional hypergeometric functions and representation theory:

  • Lecture 1: The KZ differential equations and hypergeometric functions
    4:00 p.m., Monday, 11 October 1999, 110 Fenton Hall
  • Lecture 2: Statistical mechanics, R-matrices and qKZ difference equations
    4:00 p.m., Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 110 Fenton Hall
  • Lecture 3: The qKZ equations, q-hypergeometric functions, and quantization of geometry
    4:00 p.m., Friday, 15 October 1999, 110 Fenton Hall

11-15 October 1998

Jean-Pierre Serre

College de France, Paris


Professor Serre will present two lecture series on the following topics:

  • Lecture series 1: Finite subgroups of Lie groups
  • Lecture series 2: The notion of complete reducibility in group theory
Lecture notes are available for both series here.


March 1997

Efim Zelmanov

UC San Diego



October 1995

Clifford Taubes

Harvard University



January 1993

Yu I Manin

Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik



January 1989

Michael Atiyah

Cambridge University, UK