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.
The 2020 Erdős Memorial Lecture will be held at the 2020 Fall Western Sectional Meeting on Saturday, October 24, 2020.
The lecturer will be Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University.
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
