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Public Lectures Overview

A recent initiative, joint with the Friends of Stanford Mathematics, is a series of lectures, for the public, by outstanding mathematicians, who are also wonderful communicators.

These lectures are free and open to all. If you wish to stay informed about upcoming public lectures, please click here to subscribe to our email list: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/mathpubliclecture

Past Public Lecture Events

Date
Tue October 29th 2024, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford University
Speaker
Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London)
Date
Thu April 11th 2024, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Everett and Jane Hauck Auditorium, David and Joan Traitel Building of Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Speaker
Leslie Lamport (Microsoft)
Date
Thu October 26th 2023, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford University
Speaker
Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)
Date
Thu May 18th 2023, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Everett and Jane Hauck Auditorium, David and Joan Traitel Building of Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Speaker
Ravi Vakil (Stanford)
Date
Thu August 22nd 2019, 4:00pm
Location:
Cubberley Auditorium
Speaker
Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University)
Date
Wed May 22nd 2019, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Cubberley Auditorium
Speaker
Moon Duchin (Tufts University)
Date
Thu February 14th 2019, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Cubberley Auditorium
Speaker
Alain Goriely (Oxford University)
Date
Tue May 8th 2018, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Cubberley Auditorium
Speaker
David Donoho (Stanford University)
Date
Thu October 5th 2017, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Cubberley Auditorium
Speaker
Robbert Dijkgraaf (Institute for Advanced Study)

Past Speakers

Professor of Computer Sciences
Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Professor of Mathematics
Princeton University
Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Professor of Mathematics
Stanford University
Professor of Mathematics
Duke University
Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
Stanford University
Professor of Mathematics
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
Dave Donoho
Professor of Statistics
Stanford University
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Tufts University
Professor of Mathematics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Professor of Mathematics
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Professor of Mathematics
University of Oxford
Professor of Mathematics
Harvard University
Professor of Statistics
Stanford University
Research Scientist
Microsoft
Professor of Mathematics
Harvard University
Professor of Mathematics
IAS
Professor of Mathematics
UCLA
Professor of Mathematics
Stanford University
Professor of Mathematics
University of Lyon
Professor of Mathematics
Harvard University