Simons Lecture Series

2015 Lectures

Leslie Greengard

New York University

April 29 - May 1

4:30-5:30pm

New mathematical approaches in acoustics and electromagnetics

  • Lecture 1: April 29, Room 32-123

    Fast algorithms for wave propagation problems

  • Lecture 2: April 30, Room 3-270

    A new potential theory for the Maxwell equations

  • Lecture 3: May 1, Room 4-370

    High resolution inverse scattering

Laure Saint-Raymond

École Normale Supérieure

May 4-6

4:30-5:30pm

From particle systems to kinetic equations

  • Lecture 1: May 4, Room E25-111

    The low density limit: formal derivation

  • Lecture 2: May 5, Room E25-111

    A short time convergence result

  • Lecture 3: May 6, Room 32-123

    The case of fluctuations around a global equilibrium

Simons Lecture Poster 2015
Simons Lecture Poster 2015

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