Distinguished Lectures

The Distinguished Lecture series

The University of Wisconsin Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics was started in 1996. Generally, there is one lecture in the series during each semester given by a leading mathematical researcher.

Distinguished Lecturers

Year Lecturer
1996 Gang Tian
1997 Carl Pomerance
1998 Elias Stein
1998 Constantine Dafermos
1999 Janos Kollar
1999 Robert MacPherson
2000 Persi Diaconis
2001 Terence Tao
2001 Cumrun Vafa
2002 George Papanicolaou
2002 Armand Borel
2002 Alex Wilkie
2003 Friedrich Hirzebruch
2004 Stefan Hildebrandt
2004 Rajesh Gopakumar
2006 Helmut Hofer
2006 Andrew Majda
2007 Greg Lawler
2007 Jeff Cheeger
2008 Weinan E
2008 Blaine Lawson
2009 Emanuel Candes
2009 Shou-Wu Zhang
2010 Gunnar Carlsson
2010 Tom Hales
2011 Bernd Sturmfels
2012 Benedict Gross
2013 Alexei Borodin
2014 David Eisenbud
2014 Ngô Bao Châu
2017 Roger Temam
2018 Alex Lubotzky
2018 Andre Neves
2018 Gunther Uhlmann
2019 Shafi Goldwasser
2021 Geordie Williamson
2022 Kristin Lautner (originally scheduled for 2020)
Rob Lazarsfeld
Larry Guth
2023 Yair Minsky
Edris Titi