Simons Lecture Series
2017 Lectures
Yuval Peres
Microsoft Research
April 24-26, 4:30-5:30pm
Room 2-190
Surprises in Discrete Probability
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Lecture 1: Monday, April 24
A fair partition of the sphere and overhanging blocks
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Lecture 2: Tuesday, April 25
Strange geometry of high-dimensional spanning forests
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Lecture 3: Wednesday, April 26
Mixing time in Ramanujan graphs and random graphs
Martin Hairer
University of Warwick
May 1-3, 4:30-5:30pm
2-190
Singular Stochastic PDEs
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Lecture 1: Monday, May 1
Bridging scales: from microscopic dynamics to macroscopic laws
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Lecture 2: Tuesday, May 2
An analyst’s incursion into quantum field theory
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Lecture 3: Wednesday, May 3
Renormalization: a BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs
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