Simons Lecture Series
2011 Lectures
Steven Strogatz Cornell University
April 20-22
4:30-5:30pm
Sync, Balance, and Blog
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Lecture 1: April 20, Room 34-101
Coupled oscillators that synchronize themselves
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Lecture 2: April 21, Room 4-370
Social networks that balance themselves
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Lecture 3: April 22, Room 34-101
Blogging about math for the New York Times
Manjul Bhargava Princeton University
April 25-27
4:30-5:30pm
Orbits of Group Representations and Arithmetic
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Lecture 1: April 25, Room 34-101
From Gauss composition to prehomogeneous spaces
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Lecture 2: April 26, Room 4-370
Coregular spaces and algebraic curves
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Lecture 3: April 27, Room 34-101
The average rank of elliptic curves
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