Simons Lecture Series

The Department of Mathematics annually presents the Simons Lecture Series to celebrate the most exciting mathematical work by the very best mathematicians of our time. The format of this lecture series has evolved since its inception in 1999, and now includes two weeks of lectures - one in pure mathematics and the other in applied mathematics - given each spring.

We are grateful to our good friend Jim Simons for providing the financial backing of these lectures.

2012 Lectures

May 2-9, 4:30-5:30pm

Alexander Lubotzky

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Expanders In Pure Mathematics

Lecture 1: May 2, Room 32-123
Expander graphs

Lecture 2: May 3, Room 4-370
Expander graphs in number theory

Lecture 3: May 4, Room 34-101
Expander graphs in geometry

 

László Lovász

Eötvös Loránd University

Large Graphs and Their Limits

Lecture 1: May 7, Room 3-270
What are graph limits, and why are they useful?

Lecture 2: May 8, Room 4-370
Graph limits and extremal graph theory

Lecture 3: May 9, Room 4-370
Algorithms for very large graphs

 

Simons Lectures Over the Years

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: Peter Shor
1999: Laurent Lafforgue