The Distinguished Lecture Series

2014

Carlos Simpson, Université de Nice

  • Non-abelian Hodge theory, I, II, III, March 5, 6, 7, 2014

2011

Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University

  • Topology and Data, I, II, April 18, 19, 2011

2010

Ivan Fesenko, University of Nottingham

  • Higher fields and adeles associated to arithmetic surfaces, and a translation invariant integration on higher local fields and adeles, April 20, 2010
  • K-delic structures on arithmetic surfaces and two-dimensional class field theory, April 21, 2010
  • Zeta integral on a regular model of an elliptic over a global field and applications to three fundamental properties of its zeta function, April 22, 2010

2009

Fred Cohen, University of Rochester

  • On natural subspaces of products, and their applications, March 31, 2009
  • Generalized moment-angle complexes, April 1, 2009
  • Spaces of homomorphisms and representations, April 2, 2009

2008

Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania

  • New developments in anabelian geometry, I, II, III, April 16, 17, 18, 2008

2005

Marc Levine, Northeastern University

  • Algebraic cobordism, January 25, 2005
  • Algebraic cobordism, algebraic K-theory and the Chow ring, January 26, 2005
  • Degree formulas and Steenrod operations, January 27, 2005

2004

Yum-Tong Siu, Harvard University

  • Analytic methods in algebraic geometry I, II, III, April 1, 2, 3, 2004

2003

Joachim Cuntz, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster

  • K-homology for the Weyl algebra and the noncommutative Chern character I, II, April 14, 15, 2003

2002

Vladimir Voevodsky, Institute for Advanced Study

  • Motivic homotopy theory, April 25, 2002
  • Framed correspondences, April 26, 2002

2001

Haynes Miller, Massachussets Institute of Technology

  • Algebraic Topology in a New Key, March 25, 2001
  • Groups in algebraic topology, March 26, 2001
  • Elliptic moduli in algebraic topology, March 27, 2001

2000

Stephen Lichtenbaum, Brown University

  • An introduction to motives and motivic cohomology theory, I, II, March 13, 14, 2000

1999

Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto

  • Symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian group actions I, II, III, March 29, 30, 31, 1999

Steve Gersten, University of Utah

  • Groups as geometric objects, March 15, 1999
  • The word problem and hyperbolic groups, March 16, 1999
  • Homological invariants, March 17, 1999

James Stasheff, University of North Carolina

  • A survey of cohomological physics, February 18, 1999
  • From operads to string field theory, February 18, 1999
  • Homological perturbation theory and the master equation, February 19, 1999

1998

Kumar Murty, University of Toronto

  • Galois groups and arithmetic, April 6, 1998
  • Frobenius and Galois, April 7, 1998
  • Chebotarev and L-functions, April 8, 1998

1997

Paul Baum, Pennsylvania State University

  • A brief history of K-theory, April 28, 1997
  • Statement and proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, April 29, 1997
  • Elliptic operators and K-homology, April 30, 1997
  • K-theory for group C*-algebras, May 1, 1997