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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. For two decades, this annual lecture was given at a Sectional Meeting, and starting in 2022 it is given as the Erdős Lecture for Students at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.

Next Lectures

The next Erdős Lecture for Students will be given by Eugenia Cheng, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the City University of London, at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA. 

An Erdős Lecture will be given by Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago, at the 2023 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting in Atlanta, GA. More details to be announced.

Past Lectures

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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

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