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Keeler Lectures (Historical Information)

Date    Speaker    Title
         
Feb 2009   Jason Starr  

Rational Simple Connectedness and Serre's "Conjecture II"
Abel Maps for Fibrations over a Curve Weak Approximation and R-Equivalence

Sept 2003   Allen Knutson   Positivity, Effectivity, and Degeneration
         

Nov 1994

 

Michael Mackey

  

Mathematics and Biology:  How do they help each other? Why does time go one way?  A thermodynamic answer. The probabilistic description of high dimensional dynamical systems

Sept 1994

 

Armand Borel 

  

Values of zeta-functions at integers, cohomology and polylogarithms

Mar 1994

  

Leo Kadanoff

  

Complexity and Simplicity in Partial Differential Equations:  Explorations of the territory between math and physics Convective Turbulence:  Some Experiments and a Little Theory Singularity Formation and Interface Motion:  Asymptotic Analysis and Universal Behavior From Hopping to Hydrodynamics:  PDE and automata

Feb 1994

  

E. Quinto*

  

Computerized Tomography 

Oct 1993

  

Thomas Banchoff*

  

The Fourth Dimension and Interactive Computer Graphics Interactive Computer Graphics and the Fourth Dimension

Mar 1993

  

Charles Peskin*

  

Computer Simulation of Blood Flow in the Heart Fiber Architecture of a Heart Valve Leaflet

Feb 1993

  

Curt McMullen

 

Renormalization in Dynamics and Geometry

Oct 1992

  

Doris Schattschneider*

 

Visions of Symmetry:  Escher as a Mathematician Tilings by Hand and Computer 

Feb 1992

  

R. Devaney* 

 

Chaos, Fractals and Dynamics The Mathematics Behind the Mandelbrot Set

Nov 1991

 

Thomas Spencer 

 

Scaling and Localization and Density of States Area Preserving Maps with Small Noise 

Nov 1991

 

M. Rabin 

  

Randomized Algorithms; Solving Impossible Problems by Unpredictable Steps Parallel Algorithms. Proving a Truth and Nothing Else; Interactive Proofs and Cryptography Randomness in Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

Apr 1991

  

Richard Guy*

  

No Calculus, Please! Beanstalk and Beans Don’t Talk

Jan 1991

  

Jurgen Moser

  

Stability in Dynamical Systems

Nov 1990

 

Cliff Taubes 

  

A Biased but Brief History of Gauge Theories, Instantons 4-manifold Invariants and Mayer-Vietoris

Apr 1990

  

V.I. Arnold

  

Newton’s Principia 300 Years Later Singularities and Bifurcations 

         

Oct 1989

  

Andrew Majda

  

Mathematics Fluid Dynamics:  The Interaction of Nonlinear Analysis and Modern Applied Mathematics

Oct 1989

  

Gopal Prasad

  

Arithmetic of Semi-simple Groups 

Apr 1989

  

Benedict Gross

  

Representations of GL(2) and Number Theory

Nov 1988

 

David Jerison 

  

The Geometry of Harmonic Measure

Apr 1988

  

W. Hugh Woodin

  

Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Nature of Independence