Ingrid Daubechies (April 17-18, 2025)
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics
Public Lecture: “Mathematicians Helping Art Conservators and Art Historians”
Colloquium: “Discovering Low-dimensional Manifolds in High-dimensional Data”
(Break in Conferences: 2018 – 2024)
Maria Chudovsky (October 23-24, 2017)
MacArthur Fellow – 2012, Princeton University, Department of Mathematics, PACM: The Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Public Lecture: “Parties, Doughnuts and Coloring”
Research Seminar: “Graphs with Forbidden Induced Subgraphs”
Colloquium: “Perfect and Beyond”
Gregory Forest (April 4 – 6, 2016)
Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor, Departments of Mathematics & Biomedical Engineering, Director, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Public Lecture: “The Virtual Lung Project at UNC”
Colloquium: “Dynamic Organization of DNA in Living Yeast”
Research Seminar: “Transient Anomalous Diffusion in mucus gels and other Biological Fluids”
Andrea L. Bertozzi (March 23, 2015)
Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, Director of Applied Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles
Public Lecture: “Math of Crime”
Colloquium: “Swarming by Nature and by Design”
Research Seminar: “Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data”
Alex Lubotzky (February 3, 2014)
Maurice and Clara Weil Chair of Mathematics, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Public Lecture: “Real Applications of Non-real Numbers”
Colloquium: “Ramanujan graphs and error correcting codes”
Research Seminar: “From Ramanujan graphs to Ramanujan complexes”
Pascal Chossat (March 13-15, 2013)
Director of Research, Department of Mathematics, University of Nice and French National Center for Scientific Research
Public Lecture: “Bifurcation and Symmetry, a Mathematical View on Pattern Formation in Nature”
Colloquium: “Pattern Formation on Compact Riemann Surfaces and Applications”
Research Seminar: “Pattern Formation and the Bifurcation of Heteroclinic Cycles”
Pascal Chossat (2012 canceled)
Ridgway Scott (April 5-7, 2011)
Louis Block Professor, University of Chicago, Computer Science and Mathematics
Public Lecture: “Mathematics in Drug Design”
Colloquium: “Two Tales about Newton’s Method”
Research Seminar: “Optimal Algorithms using Optimal Meshes”
Günter Uhlmann (April 14-15, 2010)
Walker Family Endowment Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington, Department of Mathematics
Public Lecture: “Cloaking, Invisibility and Inverse Problems”
Colloquium: “30 Years of Calderón’s Inverse Problem”
Research Seminar: “Travel Time Tomography and Boundary Rigidity”
Roland Glowinski (April 22-24, 2009)
Cullen Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
Public Lecture: “Adventures in Computing”
General Seminar: “Particle Clustering in Rotating Cylinders”
Research Seminar: “A Least-Squares/Fictitious Domain Method for Linear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems with Neumann or Robin Boundary Conditions: A Virtual Control Approach”
Dr. Desmond J. Higham, FRSE (January 22-24, 2008)
Professor of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Public Lecture: “Network Science: Joining the Dot”
Colloquium: “Spectral Algorithms for Biological Networks”
Research Seminar: “Stochastic Differential Equations with Switches”
Efmi Zelmanov (March 26-28, 2007)
Fields Medalist, Professor of Mathematics at University of California, San Diego.
Public Lecture: “Algebra in the 20th Century”
Colloquium: “Profinite Groups”
Seminar: “Some open problems concerning Infinite-Dimensional Algebras”
Richard Ewing (April 14-16, 2006)
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Engineering, and Vice-President of Research, Texas A&M University
Public Lecture: “Mathematical Modeling, How Powerful Is It”
Colloquium: “Mathematical Modeling in Energy and Environmental Applications”
Seminar: “Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Methods for Transport Problems”
Bernd Sturmfels (March 21-23, 2005)
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Public Lecture: “Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology”
Colloquium: “Tropical Geometry”
Seminar: “Solving the Likelihood Equations”
John G McWhirter FRS FREng (March 22-23, 2004)
Senior Fellow, QinetiQ Ltd, Malvern Technology Centre
Graduate Student Lecture: “The Mathematics of Independent Component Analysis”
Public Lecture: “Mathematics, Who Needs It Anyway”
Mathematics Lecture: “A Novel Technique for Boardband Signular Value Decomposition”
Tom Mullin (April 30- May 2, 2003)
Manchester Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
Public Lecture: “Patterns in the Sand, The Physics of Granular Flow”
Mathematics Lecture: “Can Granular Segregation be considered as a Phase Transition?”
Mathematics Lecture: “Balls in Syrup: A ‘Simple’ Dynamical System”
Heinz-Otto Peitgen (April 5 and April 8, 2002)
University of Bremen and Florida Atlantic University
General Lecture: “Harnessing Chaos”
Mathematics Lecture: “Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging: Analysis of Vascular Structures for Liver Surgery Planning”
Robert Calderbank (April 17-20, 2001)
AT&T Laboratories
General Lecture: “50 Years of Information and Coding”
Mathematics Colloquium: “Combinatorics, Quantum Computing and Cellular Telephones”
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar: “Tailbiting Representations of the Binary Golay Code”
Gilbert Strang (April 10-11, 2000)
MIT
General Lecture: “Partly Random Graphs and Small World Networks”
Colloquium Lecture: “Cosine Transforms and Wavelet Transforms and Signal Processing”
Seminar Lecture: “Teaching Applied Mathematics”
Cheryl Praeger (1999)
University of Western Australia
General Lecture: “Symmetries of Designs”
Colloquium Lecture: “Algorithms for Computing with Groups of Matrices over Finite Fields”
Seminar Lecture – “Quasiprimitive Permutation Groups and their Actions on Graphs and Linear Spaces”
Raghu Varadhan (1998)
Courant Institute of Mathematics
General Lecture: “How Rare Is Rare?”
Colloquium Lecture: “Problems of Hydrodynamic Scaling”
Seminar Lecture: “Large Deviations for the Simple Exclusion Process”
Marty Golubitsky (1997)
University of Houston
General Lecture: “Symmetry and Chaos: Patterns on Average”
Colloquium Lecture: “Oscillations in Coupled Systems and Animal Gaits”
Seminar Lecture: “Spiral Waves and Other Planar Patterns”
Fabrizio Catanese (1996)
University of Pisa
General Lecture: “Moduli of Surfaces and Differentiable 4-manifolds”
Colloquium Lecture – “Enriques’ Rough Classification of Algebraic Surfaces and the Fine Classification”
Seminar Lecture – “Homological Algebra and Algebraic Surfaces”
Lawrence Sirovich (1994)
Brown University
General Lecture: “Image Analysis”
Colloquium Lecture: “Dynamics of Wall-Bounded Turbulence”
Seminar Lecture: “EOF Analysis of TOMS Ozone Image Data”
Bill Jones (1993)
University of Colorado
Public Talk: “Szego Polynomials Applied to Signal Processing”
