The Kemeny Lectures | Mathematics at Dartmouth

A brief history of John G. Kemeny.

2024	Anne Schilling	May 15: How to get to the moon playing the 15 puzzle May 16: The ubiquity of crystal bases May 17: From quasi-symmetric to Schur expansions via the inverse quasi-Kostka matrix
2023	Alex Lubotzky	April 17: New directions in error correcting codes April 18: High dimensional expanders: From Ramanujan graphs to Ramanujan complexes April 19: Group approximation, stability, and high dimensional expanders
2022	Anna Gilbert	CANCELED May 4: Combinatorial group testing designs and algorithms: pooled testing for biological applications May 5: Sparse Fourier Transform: really fast Fourier transform May 6: Metric representations: Algorithms and Geometry
2020	Nigel Higson	September 28: Topology and Spectrum WebM September 29: Integral Equations from Hilbert and Weyl to Connes and Beyond WebM September 30: A Counterfactual History of the Hypoelliptic Laplacian WebM
2020	Richard Schwartz	May 18: Doing Geometry with Graphical User Interfaces WebM May 19: Polygonal outer billiards WebM May 20: The Spheres of Sol WebM
2019	Ingrid Daubechies	May 28: Surfing with Wavelets May 28: Mathematicians Helping Art Conservators and Art Historians May 29: Lovely Bones: a meeting of mathematical and biological minds
2018	Martin Nowak	April 18: Natural Cooperation WebM April 19: Evolutionary Dynamics WebM April 20: Hamilton's Rule Makes No Prediction and Cannot Be Tested Empirically WebM
2017	Toshiyuki Kobayashi	May 3: "Universal sounds" of anti-de Sitter manifolds May 4: Local to global — geometry of symmetric spaces with indefinite-metric. May 5: Analysis on locally pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces
2016	Melanie Matchett Wood	April 27: Random groups in number theory and universality April 27: The Chemistry of Primes April 28: Nonabelian Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics and Function Field Theorems
2015	Yakov Eliashberg	May 5: What is the h–principle? WebM May 6: Symplectic topology: from Poincare to Arnold and Gromov, and beyond May 7: Recent advances in symplectic flexibility
2014	Hendrik Lenstra	April 16: Escher and the Droste effect WebM April 17: Sums of digits and divisibility April 18: Missing values of polynomial maps over finite fields
2013	Jesus De Loera	March 26: The Convex Geometry of Tables and Arrays March 28: Algebraic and Geometric ideas in the theory of linear optimization March 28: My Favorite Open Problems about Polyhedra
2012	Bernd Sturmfels	May 1: Tropical Mathematics May 2: Convex Algebraic Geometry May 3: The Central Curve in Linear Programming
2011	Vaughan Jones	April 11: The Onset of Wildness April 11: Flatland, a great place to do algebra QuickTime, WebM April 12: Random matrices, von Neumann algebras and (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories
2010	Persi Diaconis	February 22: The Search For Randomness February 23: Adding Numbers, Shuffling Cards and an Amazing Matrix February 24: On Adding a List of Numbers (and other one dependent determinantal processes)
2009	Georgia Benkart	April 21: Representations of Groups of Matrices - Yeah Schur April 22: Determinants in Wonderland. RealMedia April 23: Travels to Hyperbolic Space Starting from an sl(2) Base
2008	Daniel Goldston	April 23: Primes and Twin Primes. QuickTime, WebM April 24: Small Gaps Between Primes April 24: Problems Related to Primes
2007	Richard Stanley	May 3: Increasing and decreasing subsequences May 3: A Survey of Plane Tilings. RealMedia May 4: Alternating permutations
2006	Alan Weinstein	April 27: Groupoids as generalized equivalence relations April 27: Symmetry groupoids of crystals and networks QuickTime, WebM April 28: The structure of proper groupoids
2005	Andrew Granville	April 21: An introduction to additive combinatorics April 21: Prime Number Races April 22: Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov theorem
2004	Paul Baum	April 14: Mathematical Impossibilities April 15: The Dirac Operator April 16: K-theory for Group C*-Algebras
2003	Robert Bryant	May 12: Geometry Old and New: From Euclid to String Theory May 13: New Zoll metrics on the 2-sphere May 15: Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature
2001	John Roe	April 30: The Art Of Coarse Mathematics May 1: Homology Via Coarse Geometry May 2: On Being Amenable
2000	Andrew Odlyzko	May 1: Primes: What we do and don't know. RealMedia May 2: Zeros of the Riemann zeta function: Conjectures and computations May 3: Polynomials with restricted coefficients: results and open problems. RealMedia
1999	Jeffrey Weeks	May 5: The Shape of Space. RealMedia May 6: Curvature and the Universe. RealMedia May 7: Topological Questions in Cosmology. RealMedia
1998	Shiing-Shen Chern
1997	Harold Stark	April 30: A Non-Euclidean Big Bang May 1: L-functions and Class Fields May 2: Zeta Functions of Graphs and Quadratic Covers
1996	Peter Sarnak	April 23: The distribution of prime numbers April 24: The spectral nature of the zeros of zeta functions April 25: Spectra of Riemannian manifolds
1995	David Griffeath	April 19: Cellular Automata as Toy Universes April 20: The Mathematics of Excitable Cellular Automata April 21: The Mathematics of Threshold Growth