Ziwet Lectures The Ziwet Lectures were established in 1934 through a bequest from Professor Alexander Ziwet, a faculty member and chair of the UM Department of Mathematics from 1888-1925. He stipulated that his estate “should be used for the promotion of scientific work.” The Ziwet lectures have been one of the most prestigious lectures series in the department.  Following in a list of distinguished mathematicians who have given Ziwet Lectures. Year   Speaker Title Sept 18-20, 2012   Felix Otto Poster (pdf) Pattern formation and Partial Differential Equations (pdf) Optimal estimates in stochastic homogenization (pdf) Domain patterns in thin-film ferromagnets (pdf) March 27-29 2012   Emmanuel Candes From Compressive Sensing to Super-Resolution (pdf) November 2011   David Eisenbud Vector Bundles and Free Resolutions (pdf) March 2011   N. Trefethen Approximation by Rational Funcitons (pdf) Nov. 2010   C.H. Woodin The search for Ultimate L (pdf)    Video MP4 Forcing axioms and Unsolvable Problems (pdf)    Video MP4 Multiverse Views and the Conjecture (pdf)    Video MP4 Jan 2010   C. Skinner Modular Forms and Special Values of L-Functions (pdf) Oct 2009   C. Villani What goes on in a plasma? Vlasov-Fokker-Planck: Relaxation with degenerate dissipation Landau damping: relaxation without dissipation Apr 2009   J. Tyson How Do Cells Compute Temporal Organization of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Mathematical Challenges in Systems Biology Nov 2008   I. Karatzas Some Stochastic Control Problems in Mathematical Finance Volatility Stabilization, Diversity and Arbitrage Optimal Arbitrage Feb 2008   C. McMullen Billiards and Teichmuller Theory Islands on Algebraic Surfaces Topology of Numbers Sept 2006   J. Marsden Invariant Manifolds and Coherent Structures Discrete Mechanics, Variational Integrators & Optimization A Plethora of Geodesics on Lie Groups 2003   M. Artin   2001   W. Gowers   2000   P. Sarnak   1997   J. Bourgain   1992   R.L. Graham   1990   G.A. Margulis   1988   K. Uhlenbeck   1986   P.D. Lax   1984   R.H. Bott   1982   S.T. Yau   1980   W.P. Thurston   1978   E. Bombieri   1976   I.M. Singer   1974   D. Mumford   1970   L.V. Ahlfors   1968   M. Atiyah   1966   J. Milnor   1964   L. Nirenberg   1962   I. Kaplansky   1960   J.H.C. Whitehead   1958   M. Kac   1953   A.M. Gleason   1949   R.H. Fox   1946   K. Friedrichs   1944   C. Chevalley   1944   J.W.T. Youngs   1944   P. Erdos   1941   S. MacLane   1939   J. von Neumann   1938   E. Hecke   1937   O. Szasz   1936   R.A. Fisher   1936   Eduard Cech