Keeler Lectures

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

 

 

 

 

 

   

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