Simons Lecture Series

2014 Lectures

Daniel Spielman Yale University

March 12-14

4:30-5:30pm

Ramanujan graphs and the solution of the Kadison-Singer problem

  • Lecture 1: March 12, Room E25-111

    Sparsification of graphs and matrices

  • Lecture 2: March 13, Room 3-270

    The solution of the Kadison-Singer problem

  • Lecture 3: March 14, Room 3-270

    Ramanujan graphs of every degree

Ben Green University of Oxford

May 15-16

4:30-5:30pm

Finding algebraic structure in combinatorial problems

  • Lecture 1: May 14, Room 54-100

    Approximate groups and applications

  • Lecture 2: May 15, Room 3-270

    Linear equations and higher-order Fourier analysis

  • Lecture 3: May 16, Room 3-270

    Incidence geometry and cubic curves

Simons Lecture Poster 2014
Simons Lecture Poster 2014

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