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Past Events

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Tuesday, October 29, 2024. 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Speaker:
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London)

Computers are now better than humans at logical games and puzzles such as Sudoku, Chess, Go and so on. Mathematics can also be framed as a logical puzzle game.

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Thursday, October 17, 2024. 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Speaker:
Mark Levi (Penn State)

The seemingly magical ability of a spinning top to stay upright fascinated people for many thousands of years and in many civilizations.

  • Lectures
Beatrice Yormark Lecture
Date
Thursday, May 23, 2024. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Hannah Larson (UC Berkeley)

The moduli space M_g of genus g curves (or Riemann surfaces) is a central object of study in algebraic geometry. Its cohomology is important in many fields.

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Thursday, April 11, 2024. 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Speaker:
Leslie Lamport (Microsoft)

Coding is the last step in writing a program. The first step is deciding what we want to achieve and how. The best methods for working through subsequent steps consist in using simple mathematics…

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Thursday, March 14, 2024. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Vincent Pilloni (CNRS & University of Paris-Saclay)

We will give an accessible introduction to the Hasse-Weil conjecture for curves and related problems in the Langlands program. We will discuss some recent work with G. Boxer, F. Calegari and T.

  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Thursday, February 15, 2024. 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Speaker:
Alain Goriely (Oxford University)

Illusions have been a constant source of amusement but they are  also a unique gateway into understanding the way we perceive the world and how the brain processes information. …

  • Lectures
Bergman Lecture
Date
Thursday, January 18, 2024. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Alexander Volberg (Michigan State University)

Suppose you wish to find a 2^n by 2^n matrix by asking this matrix question that it honestly answers. For example you can ask question "What is your (1,1) element?’"

  • Lectures
Beatrice Yormark Lecture
Date
Thursday, January 11, 2024. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Svitlana Mayboroda, (University of Minnesota)

Harmonic measure is the probability that a Brownian traveler starting from the center of the domain exists through a particular portion of the boundary.

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Thursday, October 26, 2023. 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Speaker:
Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)

How can we make it harder to misuse powerful AI systems, such as GPT-4, for propaganda, fraud, academic cheating, copyright violation, and so on?

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Thursday, October 5, 2023. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Michael Temkin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

...in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." Philipp von Jolly in his recommendation to Max Planck not to go into physics.…

  • Conferences & Workshops
Date
Monday, August 7, 2023. 9:30am - Thursday, August 10, 2023. 4:30pm
  • Lectures
Poincaré Lecture
Date
Wednesday, May 31, 2023. 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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…

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Thursday, May 18, 2023. 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Speaker:
Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

Doodling is a creative and fundamentally human activity, resulting in doodles with intricate and often hidden implicit structure.

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Thursday, April 6, 2023. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Chenyang Xu (Princeton University)

The question of whether a smooth complex variety with a positive first Chern class, called a Fano variety, has a Kahler-Einstein metric has been a major topic…

Date
Thursday, February 16, 2023. 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Camera as Witness Stanford Arts presents the REFLECTIONS series celebrating the UN International Day of Women and…