Annual Lecture Series
Each year, the Department sponsors four lecture series: the Adrian Albert Lectures in algebra, the Zygmund-Calderón Lectures in analysis,
the Charles Amick Memorial Lectures in
applied mathematics, and the Unni Namboodiri Lectures
in geometry and topology.
Adrian Albert Lectures in Algebra
The Albert Lectures are the oldest of the four lecture series. They are named after Abraham Adrian Albert (1905-1972), who received his Ph.D from Chicago in 1928, under the supervision of L.E. Dickson. Albert later returned to Chicago as a member of the faculty, and served for a time as chair of the department and President of the AMS.
Past Albert Lecturers include: Nathan Jacobson, Michael Atiyah, John Milnor, Jürgen Moser, Enrico Bombieri, Shing-Shen Chern, Dennis Sullivan, H. Jerome Keisler, Barry Mazur, John Griggs Thompson, William Fulton, Armand Borel, Joe Harris, Benedict Gross, J.P. Serre, Andrei Suslin, Efim Zelmanov, Karl Rubin, Phillip Griffiths, Jacques Tits, Richard Swan, Michael Artin, Jeremy Rickard, Carlos Simpson, Maxim Kontsevich, Richard Taylor, Michel Broué, Don Zagier, Alexander Merkurjev, Andrei Okounkov and Claire Voisin.
The 2007-2008 speaker will be:
May 13,14,15, 2008
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Zygmund-Calderón Lectures in Analysis
The Zygmund-Calderón Lectures are named after Antoni Zygmund (1900-1992) and Alberto Calderón (1920-1998). Zygmund was on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1947 until his retirement in 1980. He received the National Medal of Science in 1986. Calderón was a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires when he met Zygmund in 1948. He became a student of Zygmund's at Chicago, graduating in 1950. He returned as a faculty member from 1959 to 1972 and again from 1975 until his retirement in 1985. The lectures were known as the Zygmund Lectures until Calderón died, at which time they were renamed the Zygmund-Calderón Lectures.
Past Zygmund Lecturers include: Charles Fefferman, Jean-Pierre Kahane, Elias Stein, Yves Meyer, Donald L. Burkholder, Lennart Carleson, Luis Caffarelli, Louis Nirenberg, Jean Bourgain, Nicolai Krylov, Rick Schoen, Thomas Wolff, Ronald Coifman, Eugene Fabes, and Guido Weiss. The Zygmund-Calderón lecturers have been: Charles Fefferman and Elias Stein (who shared the lectures in the first year of their new existence), W. Timothy Gowers, Peter Jones, Terry Tao, Michael Christ, Stephen Wainger, Ben Green, Frank Merle and Alice Chang.
The 2007-2008 speaker will be:
April 14,15,16, 2008
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Charles J. Amick Memorial Lectures in Applied Mathematics
Charles Amick was an applied mathematician at the University of Chicago who died in 1991, at the age of 39. The Lecture Series was begun in 1993 as a means of honoring his painfully brief life.
Past Amick Lecturers include: Andrew Majda, Joseph Keller, John Ball, Martin Kruskal, Paul Roberts, David Ruelle, John Guckenheimer, Percy Deift, Keith Moffatt, Ingrid Daubechies, Yann Brenier, Felix Otto, Claude Bardos, George Papanicolaou and Ronald Coifman.
The 2007-2008 speaker will be:
February 18,19,20, 2008
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Unni Namboodiri Lectures in Geometry and Topology
Unni Namboodiri (1956-1981) was a brilliant student of mathematics at the University of Chicago. He died in an automobile accident in December 1981, just a few days after presenting and defending his doctoral thesis Equivariant vector fields on spheres, written under the direction of J. Peter May. The Unni Namboodiri Lecture Series was established in his memory by his family.
Past Namboodiri Lecturers include: J. Frank Adams, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau, Daniel Quillen, Robert MacPherson, Simon K. Donaldson, Edward Witten, Mikhael Gromov, Gregory A. Margulis, Graeme Segal, Andrew J. Casson, Julius Shaneson, Nigel Hitchin, Dusa McDuff, Clifford Taubes, Alain Connes, Ib Madsen, Michael Hopkins, Yakov Eliashberg, David Gabai, Curt McMullen, Gang Tian, Michael Weiss, John Baez and Étienne Ghys.
The 2007-2008 speaker will be:
April 7,8,10 2008
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