Simons Lecture Series
2009 Lectures
Étienne Ghys CNRS-École Normale, Supérieure de Lyon
April 29 - May 1
4:30-5:30pm
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Lecture 1:
Asymptotic invariants for flows
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Lecture 2:
Right-handed vector fields
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Lecture 3:
The Rademacher function
Robert Schapire Princeton University
May 3-5
4:30-5:30pm
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Lecture 1:
The AdaBoost algorithm and its analysis
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Lecture 2:
Boosting and how to play repeated games
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Lecture 3:
Boosting, optimization and maximum entropy
Simons Lectures Over the Years
2024: Elon Lindenstrauss, Lenka Zdeborova
2022: Bhargav Bhatt, Cynthia Dwork
2020: (postponed) Bhargav Bhatt, Cynthia Dwork
2019: June Huh, Alexander Barvinok
2018: Stephen Boyd, Sylvia Serfaty
2017: Yuval Peres, Martin Hairer
2016: Michael P. Brenner, Maryam Mirzakhani (cancelled due to illness)
2015: Leslie Greengard, Laure Saint-Raymond
2014: Daniel Spielman, Ben Green
2013: Emmanuel Candès, Raphaël Rouquier
2012: Alexander Lubotzky, László Lovász
2011: Steven Strogatz, Manjul Bhargava
2010: Peter Winkler, Andrei Okounkov
2009: Étienne Ghys, Robert Shapire
2008: Peter Teichner, John Conway
2007: Terry Tao, David Donoho
2006: Akshay Venkatesh, Yves Couder
2005: Noga Alon, Nigel Hitchin
2004: Wendelin Werner
2003: Grigory Perelman
2002: Robert MacPherson
2001 Fall: Peter Shor
2001 Spring: Laurent Lafforgue