Simons Lecture Series

2018 Lectures

Stephen Boyd

Stanford University

April 18-20, 2018 4:30-5:30pm

Room 2-190

Daily receptions are at 4pm in 2-290

Applied Convex Optimization

  • Lecture 1: Wednesday, April 18, 2018

    Convex Optimization

  • Lecture 2: Thursday, April 19, 2018

    Object Oriented Convex Optimization with CVXPY

  • Lecture 3: Friday, April 20, 2018

    Multi-Period Trading via Convex Optimization

    *Room E15-070, Reception E15-00LA

Sylvia Serfaty

New York University

April 23-25, 2018 4:30-5:30pm

Room 2-190

Daily receptions are at 4pm in 2-290

Systems with Coulomb Interactions

  • Lecture 1: Monday, April 23, 2018

    Motivations and Main Results

  • Lecture 2: Tuesday, April 24, 2018

    Statistical Mechanics and Microscopic Description of Large Coulomb Systems

  • Lecture 3: Wednesday, April 25, 2018

    Mean-Field Dynamics for Ginzburg-Landau Vortices and Related Models

Simons Lecture Poster 2018
Simons Lecture Poster 2018

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