Henri Poincaré Distinguished Lectures

Established in 2013, the Henri Poincaré Distinguished Visiting Professorship brings world-renowned distinguished mathematicians to Stanford University for at least one academic quarter to interact with faculty and students.

It is very generously funded by an anonymously endowed gift to the Mathematics Department.

Past Poincaré Lecture Events

May
31
Date
Wed May 31st 2023, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
380Y
Speaker
Sam Payne (University of Texas)

I will discuss recent progress on counting the number of isomorphism classes of curves of a given genus over a finite field, with and without marked points, and applications to the cohomology of…

May
12
Date
Thu May 12th 2022, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
380Y
Speaker
Mohammed Abouzaid (Columbia/Stanford)

Abstract: The rings studied in algebra tend to be obtained from the integers by applying various operations such as introducing fractions, taking quotients, adjoining roots, ...

Poincaré Lecture Visitors

Professor of Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Professor of Mathematics
EHESS, University of Paris
Professor of Mathematics
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Professor of Mathematics
University of Texas
Professor of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin