Courant Lectures

  • The XXXVth Courant Lectures

    May 9, 2024 – May 9, 2024

    Michel Talagrand, the French probabilist and recent winner of the Abel Prize

    Lecture I:

    "Chaining: A Long Story"

  • The XXXIVth Courant Lectures

    March 30, 2023 – March 31, 2023

    Andrew Stuart, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech

    Lecture I:

    "The Legacy of Rudolph Kalman: Applications, Algorithms and Analysis"

    Lecture II:

    "The Mean-Field Ensemble Kalman Filter"

  • The XXXIIIrd Courant Lectures

    Oct. 15, 2018 & Oct. 17, 2018

    Andrea L. Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity, Director of Applied Mathematics, UCLA

    Lecture I:

    "The Mathematics of Crime"

    Lecture II:

    "Swarming by Nature and by Design"

  • The XXXIInd Courant Lectures

    April 6, 2017 – April 7, 2017

    Professor Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

    Lecture I:

    "Operator scaling - theory and applications"

    Lecture II:

    "Symbolic matrices"

  • The XXXIst Courant Lectures

    March 31, 2016 – April 1, 2016

    Professor Horng-Tzer Yau, Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University

    Lecture I:

    "Random Matrix Statistics - A new class of statistical laws for highly correlated systems"

    Lecture II:

    "Beyond Mean Field Theory and d-regular graphs"

  • The XXXth Courant Lectures

    April 27, 2015 – April 28, 2015

    Professor Shafi Goldwasser, ACM Turing Award Laureate, RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT, and Professor of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute

    Lecture I:

    "On Time and Order in Cryptography"

    Lecture II:

    "The Cryptographic Lens"

  • The XXIXth Courant Lectures

    April 24, 2014 – April 25, 2014

    Simon Donaldson, Imperial College London

    Lecture I:

    "Kahler metrics and projective embedding I: approximation and asymptotics"

    Lecture II:

    "Kahler metrics and projective embedding II: Gromov-Hausdorff limits"

  • The XXVIIIth Courant Lectures

    April 25, 2013 – April 26, 2013

    Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck

    Lecture I:

    "Statistical and Causal Learning"

    Lecture II:

    "Inference of Cause and Effect"

  • The XXVIIth Courant Lectures

    March 30, 2012 & April 2, 2012

    Daniel Spielman, Yale

    Lecture I:

    "Algorithms, Graph Theory, and Laplacian Linear Equations"

    Lecture II:

    "Sparsification of Graphs and Approximation of Matrices"

  • The XXVIth Courant Lectures

    April 7, 2011 – April 8, 2011

    Persi Diaconis, Stanford

    Lecture I:

    "The Search for Randomness"

    Lecture II:

    "Mathematical Analysis of 'Hit and Run' Algorithms"

  • The XXVth Courant Lectures

    April 29, 2010 – April 30, 2010

    Alfio Quarteroni, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Lecture I:

    "Complexity reduction in the numerical approximation of Partial Differential Equations"

    Lecture II:

    "Mathematical models for the cardiovascular system: analysis, numerical simulation, applications"

  • The XXIVth Courant Lectures

    March 23, 2009 – March 24, 2009

    Emmanuel Candes, Caltech

    Lecture I:

    "The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: the Surprising Story of Compressive Sensing"

    Lecture II:

    "The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: the Surprising Story of Matrix Completion"

  • The XXIIIrd Courant Lectures

    March 12, 2008 – March 13, 2008

    Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University

    Lecture I:

    "The Geography of Social and Information Networks"

    Lecture II:

    "Modeling Social and Economic Exchange in Networks"

  • The XXIInd Courant Lectures

    March 23, 2007 & March 26, 2007

    Jean-Michel Bismut, Université Paris-Sud XI

    Lecture I:

    "Traces, Determinants, and Probability Theory"

    Lecture II:

    "Quillen metrics, the hypoelliptic Laplacian: the role and the functional integral"

  • The XXIst Courant Lectures

    Nov. 20, 2003

    Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston (Lecture I) and Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University (Lecture II)

    Lecture I:

    "What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow"

    Lecture II:

    "On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations"

  • The XXth Courant Lectures

    April 2, 2003 – April 3, 2003

    Pierre-Louis Lions, College de France

    Lecture I:

    "Atomic Physics to Nonlinear Elasticity: A Mathematical Attempt"

    Lecture II:

    "On Stochastic Partial Differential Equations"

  • The XIXth Courant Lectures

    March 26, 2002 – March 27, 2002

    Lawrence C. Evans, University of California, Berkeley

    Lecture I:

    "Some PDE methods for weak KAM theory: Introduction and Heuristics"

    Lecture II:

    "Some PDE methods for weak KAM theory: Estimates and Applications"

  • The XVIIIth Courant Lectures

    April 10, 2000 – April 11, 2000

    Ivar Ekeland, Université Paris-Dauphiine

    Lecture I:

    "Nonlinear Problems Arising from Economic Theory: The Inverse Problem for Demand Functions"

    Lecture II:

    "Nonlinear Problems Arising from Economic Theory: Variational Problems with Convexity Constraints"

  • The XVIIth Courant Lectures

    April 22, 1999 – April 23, 1999

    Herbert B. Keller, California Institute of Technology (Lecture I) and Joseph B. Keller, Stanford University (Lecture II)

    Lecture I:

    "A New Theory for Differential Algebraic Equations"

    Lecture II:

    "Option Pricing"

  • The XVIth Courant Lectures

    April 22, 1998 – April 23, 1998

    Paul Garabedian, New York University

    Lecture I:

    "Supercritical Wing Sections and Computational Plasma Physics”

  • The XVth Courant Lectures

    April 14, 1997 – April 15, 1997

    Gordon Bell, Bay Area Research Center, Microsoft

    Lecture I:

    "Telework"

    Lecture II:

    "New Computer Classes: The Platforms, Interfaces, and Networks"

  • The XIVth Courant Lectures

    1997

    Fang Hua Lin, New York University

    Lecture I:

    "Energy Concentrations for the Ginzburg-Landau Equations"

    Lecture II:

    "Minimal Submanifolds Vortices and Filaments Dynamics"

  • The XIIIth Courant Lectures

    March 7, 1996 – March 8, 1996

    Professor Gang Tian, New York University

    Lecture I:

    "Nonlinear Equations in Complex Differential Geometry"

    Lecture II:

    "Complex Monge-Ampere Equations and Moser-Onofri Type Inequalities"

  • The XIIth Courant Lectures

    Oct. 7, 1988

    Professor Roger Penrose, Oxford University

    Lecture I:

    "Complex Geometry in Physics"

  • The XIth Courant Lectures

    Oct. 7, 1988

    Professor Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley

    Lecture I:

    "The Polynomial-time Frontier: Recent Development in Computational Complexity"

  • The Xth Courant Lectures

    Oct. 6, 1988

    Professor Clifford Taubes, Harvard University

    Lecture I:

    "Stable Morse Theory for an Algebraic Variety’s Map into a Grassmanian"

  • The VIIIth & IXth Courant Lectures

    May 4, 1987 – May 9, 1987

    Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton University, AT&T Bell Laboratories (Lecture I) and Dennis P. Sullivan, Einstein Professor of Mathematics, Graduate Center of C.U.N.U and I.H.E.S., France (Lecture II)

    Lecture I:

    "New Themes in Data Structure Design"

    Lecture II:

    "Analysis on Quasi-Conformal Manifolds and Yang-Mills Fields"

  • The VIIth Courant Lectures

    April 29, 1982

    Michael O. Rabin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Harvard University

    Lecture I:

    "Randomization in Computation"

  • The VIth Courant Lectures

    April 28, 1982

    William P. Thurston, Princeton University

    Lecture I:

    "On the Geometry of Three-Manifolds"

  • The Vth Courant Lectures

    May 12, 1975

    Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1957

    Lecture I:

    "Gauge Theory: An Example of Fiber Bundle Theory in Physics"

  • The IVth Courant Lectures

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    Carl Ludwig Siegel, University of Goettingen

  • The IIIrd Courant Lectures

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    Heinrich Hopf, ETH - Zurich

  • The IInd Courant Lectures

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    Otto Neugebauer, Brown University

    Lecture I:

    "The Sources of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy"

  • The Ist Courant Lectures

    May 11, 1959

    Eugene P. Wigner, Princeton University

    Lecture I:

    "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"