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.

Simons Lectures 2013

2013 Lectures

May 1-8, 4:30-5:30pm

Emmanuel Candès

Stanford University

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

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 Lectures Over the Years

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: Peter Shor

1999: Laurent Lafforgue