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Norbert Wiener Lectures
The annual Norbert Wiener Lectures feature a series of three talks by a
distinguished mathematician. The first talk is a public lecture that
should be accessible to anyone with a modest mathematical background;
then there is typically one talk at the level of an undergraduate
colloquium and one for a specialized audience. The Wiener lecturer is
invited to visit for a full week in order to interact with faculty and
students.
2019 Lecture Series
October 2019
Mary Wheeler (Professor, The University of Texas at Austin)
"Modeling and Simulation for Physics Couplings and Subsurface
Applications"More info >
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Past Norbert Wiener Lecturers
December 2017
Ken Ono (Asa Griggs Candler Professor, Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science, Emory University)
"Polya's program for the Riemann Hypothesis and related
problems"
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Why does Ramanujan, "The man who knew infinity," matter?
Polya's program for the Riemann Hypothesis and
related problems
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Can't you just feel the moonshine?
More info >
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April 2016
Noam Elkies (Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University)
"Canonical Forms"
Canonical forms – the mathematical structure of musical canons
Poisson summation and packing problems
More info >
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April 2014
Skip Garibaldi (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA;
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory
University)
"Expect the Expected"
- Topological and generic methods in algebra
- Some people have all the luck
- Groups stabilizing polynomials
More info >
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March 2013
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)
"Probability and Intuition"
- "Probability Puzzles that Boggle the Mind"
- "New Directions in Random Walk on a Graph"
- "Random Walk and the Gittins Index"
More info >
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March 2012
Jordan S. Ellenberg (Madison)
"How To Count"
- "There is No Such Thing as Public Opinion: Polls,
Hanging Chads, and Slime Molds"
- "Polynomials as Numbers"
- "Arithmetic Counting Problems: The Topology of
Numbers"
More info >
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March 2011
Diane Prost O'Leary (Maryland)
"Searching for Certainty: Words, Images, Location"
- "Mathematics in Words and Images: The role mathematics plays in
searching the web and in restoring blurred images."
- "Uncertainty Quantification for Ill-posed Problems"
- "Where Am I?: Position from incomplete
distance information, from Gauss's geodesy problems to
protein structures"
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April 2010
Robert Ghrist (UPenn)
"Form and Function: Topology as a Tool"
- "Sensor Sensibility: the Mathematics of Sensor Networks"
- "Sheaves and Data"
- "Current Trends in Applied Algebraic Topology"
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September 2008
Jeff Weeks (independent)
- "The Shape of Space"
- "Visualizing Four Dimensions"
- "Where Do Spherical Spaces Come From?"
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February 2008
Margaret Wright (Courant, NYU)
- "How Hard Can It Be?"
- "A Tale of Three Complexities: the Worst of Times, the Best of
Times, the Spring of Hope"
- "The Nelder-Mead optimization method: dead or alive?"
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October 2006
James Yorke (Maryland)
- "Chaos"
- "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: When is HIV most infectious?"
- "Determining the DNA sequence: A billion-dollar logic puzzle"
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October 2005
Nicholas Lloyd Trefethen (Oxford)
"Confessions of a Number Cruncher"
- "The trapezoid rule, rational approximation, and
functions of matrices"
- "Computed eigenmodes of planar regions"
- "Polynomial interpolation and the Chebfun system in Matlab"
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2004
Persi Diaconis (Stanford)
"Mathematics and Magic Tricks"
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October 2004
Sigurdur Helgason (MIT)
- "Geometry and the Real World"
- "Fourier and Radon transforms on symmetric spaces"
- "The geometry of the wave equation"
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