Kuwait Foundation Lecture Archive

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2009

June 11, Jon Kleinberg (Cornell) The Flow of Information in Complex Networks
May 12, Andrew Granville (Montréal) Multiplicative functions (and pretentions)
May 5, Nancy Reid (Toronto) Likelihood-based inference for complex data structures
April 28, Mark Gross (UCSD) The tropical vertex
March 11, Ivan Smith (University of Cambridge) Lagrangian Intersection Problems [Lecture given in Kuwait]
March 3, Tom Mrowka (MIT) Knots, 3-manifolds and gauge theories
February 23, Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard) Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications

2008

November 25, Richard Weiss (Tufts) Classification Results in the Theory of Buildings
November 18, Anton Zorich (Rennes) Flat surfaces and dynamics in moduli spaces of curves
November 11, Peter McCullagh (Chicago) On exchangeable random partitions, permutations and fragmentation trees
October 28, Chandrashekhar Khare (UCLA) Modular forms and Galois representations
October 14, Lawrence D. Brown (Pennsylvania) A Field-test of Basic Empirical Bayes and Bayes Methodologies: In-Season Prediction of Baseball Batting Averages
May 13, Frank Kelly (University of Cambridge) Mathematical models of the Internet [Lecture given in Kuwait]
May 27, Maxim Kontsevich (IHES, Paris) On lattice models and finite fields
May 20, Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University) PDE on singular spaces with applications on geometric analysis
May 15, Robert Bryant (MSRI, Berkeley) The classification of Riemannian submersions from space forms CANCELLED
May 13, Jalal Shatah (Courant Institute, New York University) Hydrodynamical instabilities in free boundary problems
April 29, Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland) Asymptotic problems for stochastic processes and differential equations
March 11, David Rohrlich (Boston University) Adelic representations of elliptic type
March 4, Jun Liu (Harvard University) Bayesian inference of genetic epistasis in case-control studies
February 19, Terry Speed (WEHI and University of California, Berkeley) Technology-driven statistics
February 5, Aise Johan de Jong (Columbia University) Geometry of moduli spaces of rational curves
January 29, J.-P. Wintenberger (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg) On the proof of Serre's conjecture
January 15, Jianqing Fan (Princeton University) Estimation of Large Covariance Matrix

2007

November 20, Donald B. Rubin (Harvard University) Principal Stratification for Causal Inference with Extended Partial Compliance
November 1, Carlos T. Simpson (CNRS, Université de Nice) The shape of an algebraic variety
May 21, Mike Bennett (University of British Columbia) Diophantine equations after Wiles
May 15, Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard University) Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates
May 1, Henri Darmon (McGill University) Large solutions of small equations
March 27, Mihalis Dafermos (University of Cambridge) The stability problem for black hole spacetimes in general relativity [Lecture given in Kuwait]
March 13, K. Soundararajan (Stanford University) Multiplicative functions
February 21, Shou-Wu Zhang (Columbia University) Diagonal cycles and triple L-series
February 20, Joseph H. Silverman (Brown University) The arithmetic of dynamical systems
February 13, Assaf Naor (Microsoft Research and Courant Institute) The local theory of metric spaces and graph algorithms
February 6, Paul Embrechts (ETH, Zurich) A capital charge for operational risk: utopia or not
January 30, Shigeru Mukai (RIMS, Kyoto University) Hilbert's 14th problem and Verlinde type formulas for rings of invariant polynomials

2006

Nov 21, Etienne Ghys (CNRS-ENS Lyon) The topology of the geodesic flow on the modular surface
May 30, Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley) Tropical Geometry
May 17, Matthias Flach (Caltech) Weil-etale cohomology
May 3, Stephen Ross (MIT) A neoclassical look at behavioural finance; a tale of at least two anomalies
March 26, Martin Hyland (University of Cambridge) Algebra and Logic [Lecture given in Kuwait]
March 7, Gunter Malle (Univ. Kaiserslautern) Counting number fields
February 23, Guy Henniart (Université Paris-Sud) Recent progress on Langlands functoriality: inner forms of GL(N)
February 14, Avner Ash (Boston College) Symmetries of Algebraic Numbers
January 24, Peter Ozsváth (Columbia University) Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology

2005

October 25, Simon Donaldson (Imperial College) Existence theorems and numerical solutions in complex differential geometry
May 24, Christopher Skinner (University of Michigan) Elliptic curves and main conjectures
May 3, Paula Cohen (Texas A & M University) Modular and hypergeometric functions, transcendence and monodromy
April 26, Kazuhiro Fujiwara, (Nagoya University) Counting the number of solutions in finite fields
May 24, Geoffrey Grimmett (University of Cambridge) Conformality in probability and discrete mathematics
March 1, S. J. Patterson (Gottingen University) The Kummer conjecture today
January 18, Freydoon Shahidi (Purdue University) Hyperbolic lattice points and the theory of automorphic forms

2004

October 26, Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University) Dehn Surgery and the fundamental group.
Abstract also available as experimental MathML for Internet Explorer with Math Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox
October 19, Takeshi Saito (University of Tokyo) Galois representations in arithmetic geometry
April 6, Anthony Scholl (University of Cambridge) A century of arithmetic algebraic geometry
May 24, Edward Frenkel (University of California, Berkeley) Local Langlands correspondence for Kac-Moody algebras
May 18, Michael Aschbacher (California Institute of Technology) Finite simple groups
May 4, Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia University) Diversity and arbitrage in equity markets
April 27, Bernard Malgrange (Université Joseph Gourier, Grenoble) Non-linear differential Galois theory
February 17, Daqing Wan (University of California, Irvine) Moment zeta functions
February 16, David Preiss (University College, London) Measure, derivative, and infinitely many dimensions
January 20, John Toland (University of Bath, UK) Linking in the calculus of variations

2003

December 4, Jean-Francois Le Gall (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) Continuous random trees and their applications to combinatorics and partial differential equations
October 28, Gerd Faltings (Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, Bonn) p-adic Hodge Theory
May 22, Claude LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook) 4-Dimensional Einstein Manifolds
April 28, Preda Mihailescu (University of Paderborn) On Catalan's Conjecture
February 26, Jean-Marc Fontaine (University of Paris 11) P-adic Galois representations
February 5, Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University) Conformal Field Theory and Geometry

2002

December 3, Spencer Bloch (University of Chicago) Periods Associated To Linear Differential Equations
October 8, Michel Waldschmidt (University of Paris 6) Periods, Zeta Values and Diophantine Problems
September 30, John Conway (Princeton University) The Mysterious Arithmetic of Lexicographic Codes
April 23, Christophe Breuil (University of Paris 11) Integral p-adic Hodge theory
May 20, Benedict H. Gross (Harvard University) The characteristic polynomials of automorphisms of lattices
February 19, Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia University) Multiple Dirichlet Series and Moments of Zeta and L-Functions
January 28, Lucien Szpiro (Graduate School, City University of New York) Heights and Discriminants
January 24, Albert Fathi (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation: The Revival of the Interplay Between Partial Differential Equations and Lagrangian Dynamics

2001

November 1, Marie-France Vigneras (University of Paris 7) Local Langlands Correspondence Between Galois and Linear Groups
October 9, Pierre Colmez (University of Paris 7) Galois Representations and Differential Equations
June 12, Stephen Kudla (University of Maryland) Modular generating functions: geometric and arithmetic
June 7, Robert MacPherson (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton) On the topology of torus actions
May 23, Hélène Esnault (University of Essen) Gausse-Manin determinant and Tate linear algebra
March 5, Andrew Casson (Yale University) Progress and challenges in 3-dimensional topology
February 12, Gisbert Wüstholz (ETH, Zurich) Diophantine evolution
February 5, Bruno Khan (University of Paris 7) Motivic cohomology, L-adic cohomology and the Tate conjecture

2000

November 21, Masato Kurihara (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Iwasawa theory and cyclotomic fields
October 23, Lecture 10 cancelled
October 2, Stephen Lichtenbaum (Brown University) Special values of zeta functions
May 23, Fabien Morel (University of Paris 7) The Adams spectral sequence for algebraic homotopy groups of spheres and the Milnor conjecture on invariants of quadratic forms
May 9, Ralph Greenberg (University of Washington) Mordell-Weil Groups and Iwasawa Theory
May 1, Kazuya Kato (University of Tokyo) Classical Iwasawa Theory and its Generalization to Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
February 22, Peter Schneider (University of Münster) Continuous p-adic representation theory of the group GL2
February 15, Robert Guralnick (University of Southern California) Some applications of the classification of finite simple groups
January 18, Richard Taylor (Harvard University) The local Langlands conjecture

1999

October 12, Jacques Tilouine (University of Paris 13 and Institut Universitaire de France) Deforming modular forms and their Galois representations
July 6, Andrew Wiles (Princeton University) Number theory past and present