Simons Lecture Series

2013 Lectures

Emmanuel Candès Stanford University

May 1-3

4:30-5:30pm

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Convex Programming

  • Lecture 1: May 1, Room 32-123

    Robust Principal Component Analysis?

  • Lecture 2: May 2, Room 54-100

    PhaseLift Exact Phase Via Convex Programming

  • Lecture 3: May 3, Room 54-100

    From Compressive Sensing to Super-resolution

Raphaël Rouquier University of California, Los Angeles

May 6-8

4:30-5:30pm

Higher Representation Theory

  • Lecture 1: May 6, Room 32-123

    Higher Symmetries in Algebra

  • Lecture 2: May 7, Room 3-270

    Geometry of Correspondences

  • Lecture 3: May 8, Room 3-270

    Low-dimensional Topology

Simons Lecture Poster 2013
Simons Lecture Poster 2013

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