Archive of Mordell Lectures
How Much Does Homology Really Know?
Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster)
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory
Tim Austin (Warwick)
Thursday 1 May 2025
Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos
Rob Morris (IMPA Rio)
Thursday 2 May 2024
Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions
Aad van der Vaart (Delft)
Thursday 04 May 2023
Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach
Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.
Thursday 10 March 2022
Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions
Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.
Thursday 21 March 2019
Cohomology of the moduli space of curves
Rahul Pandharipande (ETH)
Thursday 03 May 2018
Complex dynamics and elliptic curves
Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University)
Thursday 08 June 2017
Why Mathematical Proof?
Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley)
Friday 20 May 2016
The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem
Daniel Spielman (Yale)
Monday 01 June 2015
The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space
Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago)
Thursday 03 July 2014
Categorical dynamics
Paul Seidel (MIT)
Thursday 14 June 2012
Short presentations of finite groups
Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Thursday 28 April 2011
KAM and Rigidity
Professor Anatole Katok (Penn State University)
Thursday 07 May 2009
Geometric PDE
Prof Tobias Colding (MIT)
Thursday 30 October 2008
Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation
Professor Demetrios Christodoulou (ETH-Zurich)
Tuesday 08 May 2007
Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists
Professor Vitaly Bergelson, (Ohio State University)
Tuesday 09 May 2006
The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations
Professor Peter Sarnak, (Princeton)
Tuesday 17 May 2005
Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics
Professor Noga Alon, (Tel Aviv University)
Tuesday 25 May 2004
Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms
Professor Mike Hopkins, (MIT)
Tuesday 13 May 2003