Courant Lectures
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The Courant Lectures are a series of lectures in mathematics, established in 1958 to honour the mathematician Richard Courant on his seventieth birthday.[1] Each lecture is delivered at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University by an eminent mathematician. The first, on 11 May 1959, was Eugene Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".[2][3]
The lectures were originally intended to be delivered every two years,[1] but their frequency has varied. Since the 1990s, most speakers have delivered two related lectures.[4]
Past speakers
| Date | Speaker | Lecture(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1959-05-11 | Eugene P. Wigner | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences |
| II | ? | Otto Neugebauer | The Sources of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy |
| III | ? | Heinz Hopf | |
| IV | ? | Carl Ludwig Siegel | |
| V | 1975-05-12 | Chen-Ning Yang | Gauge Theory: An Example of Fiber Bundle Theory in Physics |
| VI | 1982-04-28 | William P. Thurston | On the Geometry of Three-Manifolds |
| VII | 1982-04-29 | Michael O. Rabin | Randomization in Computation |
| VIII | 1987-05-04 | Robert E. Tarjan | New Themes in Data Structure Design |
| IX | 1987-05-09 | Dennis P. Sullivan | Analysis on Quasi-Conformal Manifolds and Yang-Mills Fields |
| X | 1988-10-06 | Clifford Taubes | Stable Morse Theory for an Algebraic Variety’s Map into a Grassmania |
| XI | 1988-10-07 | Richard Karp | The Polynomial-time Frontier: Recent Development in Computational Complexity |
| XII | 1988-10-07 | Roger Penrose | Complex Geometry in Physics |
| XIII | 1996-03 | Gang Tian | 1: Nonlinear Equations in Complex Differential Geometry
2: Nonlinear Equations in Complex Differential Geometry |
| XIV | 1997 | Fang Hua Lin | 1: Energy Concentrations for the Ginzburg-Landau Equations
2: Minimal Submanifolds Vortices and Filaments Dynamics |
| XV | 1997-04 | Gordon Bell | 1: Telework
2: New Computer Classes: The Platforms, Interfaces, and Networks |
| XVI | 1998 | Paul Garabedian | Supercritical Wing Sections and Computational Plasma Physics |
| XVII | 1998-04 | Herbert B. Keller | 1: A New Theory for Differential Algebraic Equations
2: Option Pricing |
| XVIII | 2000-04 | Ivar Ekeland | 1: Nonlinear Problems Arising from Economic Theory: The Inverse Problem for Demand Functions
2: Nonlinear Problems Arising from Economic Theory: Variational Problems with Convexity Constraints |
| XIX | 2002-03 | Lawrence C. Evans | 1: Some PDE methods for weak KAM theory: Introduction and Heuristics
2: Some PDE methods for weak KAM theory: Estimates and Applications |
| XX | 2003-04 | Pierre-Louis Lions | 1: Atomic Physics to Nonlinear Elasticity: A Mathematical Attempt
2: On Stochastic Partial Differential Equations |
| XXI | 2003-11-20 | Barbara Keyfitz | 1: What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow
2: On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations |
| XXII | 2007-03 | Jean-Michel Bismut | 1: Traces, Determinants, and Probability Theory
2: Quillen metrics, the hypoelliptic Laplacian: the role and the functional integral |
| XXIII | 2008-03 | Jon Kleinberg | 1: The Geography of Social and Information Networks
2: Modeling Social and Economic Exchange in Networks |
| XXIV | 2009-03 | Emmanuel Candès | 1: The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: the Surprising Story of Compressive Sensing
2: The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: the Surprising Story of Matrix Completion |
| XXV | 2010-04 | Alfio Quarteroni | 1: Complexity reduction in the numerical approximation of Partial Differential Equations
2: Mathematical models for the cardiovascular system: analysis, numerical simulation, applications |
| XXVI | 2011-04 | Persi Diaconis | 1: The Search for Randomness
2: Mathematical Analysis of 'Hit and Run' Algorithms |
| XXVII | 2012 | Daniel Spielman | 1: Algorithms, Graph Theory, and Laplacian Linear Equations
2: Sparsification of Graphs and Approximation of Matrices |
| XXVIII | 2013-04 | Bernhard Schölkopf | 1: Statistical and Causal Learning
2: Inference of Cause and Effect |
| XXIX | 2014-04 | Simon Donaldson | 1: Kahler metrics and projective embedding I: approximation and asymptotics
2: Kahler metrics and projective embedding II: Gromov-Hausdorff limits |
| XXX | 2015-04 | Shafi Goldwasser | 1: On Time and Order in Cryptography
2: The Cryptographic Lens |
| XXXI | 2016-03 | Horng-Tzer Yau | 1: Random Matrix Statistics - A new class of statistical laws for highly correlated systems
2: Beyond Mean Field Theory and d-regular graphs |
| XXXII | 2017-04 | Avi Wigderson | 1: Operator scaling - theory and applications
2: Symbolic matrices |
| XXXIII | 2018-10 | Andrea L. Bertozzi | 1: The Mathematics of Crime
2: Swarming by Nature and by Design |
| XXXIV | 2023-03 | Andrew Stuart | 1: The Legacy of Rudolph Kalman: Applications, Algorithms and Analysis
2: The Mean-Field Ensemble Kalman Filter |
| XXXV | 2024-05 | Michel Talagrand | Chaining: A Long Story |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Reid, Constance (1986). Hilbert–Courant. Springer. p. 520. ISBN 0-387-96256-5. Search this book on
- ↑ "Scientists in the News". Science. 129 (3361). 29 May 1959.
- ↑ Wigner, E. P. (1960). "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard Courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959". Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 13 (1): 1–14. Bibcode:1960CPAM...13....1W. doi:10.1002/cpa.3160130102. Archived from the original on 2021-02-12. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ New York University. "Courant Lectures". Retrieved 9 May 2026.
External Links
- Courant Lectures List of lectures at the Courant Institute.
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