Simons Lecture Series

2017 Lectures

Lecture Videos

Yuval Peres

Microsoft Research

April 24-26, 4:30-5:30pm

Room 2-190

Surprises in Discrete Probability

  • Lecture 1: Monday, April 24

    A fair partition of the sphere and overhanging blocks

  • Lecture 2: Tuesday, April 25

    Strange geometry of high-dimensional spanning forests

  • 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

  • Lecture 1: Monday, May 1

    Bridging scales: from microscopic dynamics to macroscopic laws

  • Lecture 2: Tuesday, May 2

    An analyst’s incursion into quantum field theory

  • Lecture 3: Wednesday, May 3

    Renormalization: a BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs

Simons Lecture Poster 2017
Simons Lecture Poster 2017

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