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The Reese Prosser Memorial Lectures


The Reese Prosser Memorial Lectures were inaugurated in 2002 by the Department of Mathematics at Dartmouth College to honor their long time colleague Reese Prosser. This lecture series was endowed by Nancy Prosser and her family. These lectures are intended to introduce the general public to mathematical research related to their daily lives.

Reese loved mathematics and music. You can see his mathematical contributions here, his music with Nancy here, his sailing here, and some remarks about Reese himself here.

2009: Mathematical Models of Social Media and the News Cycle
Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor, Cornell University [ video ]

2008: Unearthing the Visions of a Master: The Legacy of Ramanujan’s Last Letter
Ken Ono, Hilldale Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin [ video ]

2007: The Riemann Hypothesis: Unsolved Mysteries of the Primes!
J. Brian Conrey, Executive Director, American Institute of Mathematics [ video ]

2006: Tales of the Dodecahedron: from Pythagoras through Plato to Poincaré
John Baez, University of California, Riverside (click here for slides of the talk.)

2005: The Modern Mathematics of Motion Capture --- from Muybridge through Disney and Beyond
Chris Bregler, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University [ video ]

2004: Artful Mathematics - the quantification of style:
Daniel Rockmore, Dartmouth College [ video ]

2003: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order:
Steven Strogatz, Cornell University

2002: Risk and Revolution: Casanova, Napoleon, and the French Lottery.
Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago.