Background
The Erdős Memorial Lecture is an annual invited address made possible by a fund created by Andrew Beal, a Dallas banker and mathematics enthusiast. The Lecture is named for prolific mathematician Paul Erdős (1913-1996). At Mr. Beal's request, interest from the Beal fund is used to support the Erdős Memorial Lecture.
Next Lectures
2019 · Lauren K. Williams
UC Berkeley
The 2019 Erdős Memorial Lecture will be held during the 2019 Fall Central Sectional Meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, September 14-15, 2019.
The lecturer will be Lauren K. Williams, University of California, Berkeley.
More details to be announced.
Past Lectures
2018 · Andrea Bertozzi
University of California Los Angeles
2018 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
2017 · James Maynard
Magdalen College, Oxford and Clay Mathematics Institute
Spring Eastern Section Meeting
2016 · Ravi Vakil
Stanford University
04/09/16 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Spring Western Section Meeting
2015 · Peter Sarnak
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University
10/03/15 Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Fall Central Section Meeting
2014 · Maria Chudnovsky
Columbia University
03/22/14 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Fall Central Section Meeting
- 2013 · Barry Mazur, Harvard University
- 10/12/13 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Fall Eastern Section Meeting
- Arithmetic statistics: elliptic curves and other mathematical objects
- 2013 · Endre Szemerédi, Rutgers University and Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Hungary
- 04/27/13 Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Spring Central Section Meeting
- On Subset Sums
- 2012 · Ken Ono, Emory University
- 10/27/12 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Fall Western Section Meeting
- Ramanujan's Last Prophecy: Quantum Modularity
- 2011 · Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University
- 10/15/11 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, Fall Central Section Meeting
- Recovering the unseen: some recent advances in low-rank matrix reconstruction
- 2010 · Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University
- 3/27/10 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
- 3x+1
- 2009 · Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan
- 3/28/09 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Spring Central Section Meeting
- From Apollonian circle packings to Fibonacci numbers
- 2008 · William Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge
- 3/15/08 Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, New York City, NY, Spring Northeast Section Meeting
- Decomposing bounded functions
- 2007 · Andrew J. Granville, Université de Montréal
- 3/3/07 Davidson College, Davidson, NC, Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
- Erdős Dream and Pretentious Characters
- 2006 · Béla Bollobás, University of Memphis and Cambridge University
- 4/8/06 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Spring Central Section Meeting
- Inhomogeneous Random Graphs
- 2005 · Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
- 10/8/05 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Eastern Section Meeting
- Erdős picture of "most things"
- 2004 · Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley
- 5/17/04 Hyatt Regency, Houston, TX, Sixth AMS-SMM International Meeting
- Tropical geometry
- 2003 · Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study
- 10/2/03 University of Colorado, Central-Western Joint Section Meeting
- Some insights of computational complexity theory
- 2002 · Hillel Furstenberg, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
- 10/6/02, Northeastern University, Eastern Section Meeting
- The conjecture of Erdős-Turan and Its Impact on Ergodic Theory
- 2001 · Carl Pomerance, Bell Laboratories
- 3/16/01 University of South Carolina, Southeast Section Meeting
- Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Paul Erdős, and me
- 2000 · John H. Conway, Princeton University
- 9/23/00 University of Toronto, Central Section Meeting
- New ways to look at quadratic forms
- 1999 · Ronald L. Graham, AT&T Labs
- 5/19/99 University of North Texas, Fourth AMS-SMM International Meeting
- Paul Erdős and his favorite problems in number theory
