Keeler Lectures (Historical Information)

Rational Simple Connectedness and Serre's "Conjecture II"
Abel Maps for Fibrations over a Curve Weak Approximation and R-Equivalence

Nov 1994

Michael Mackey

Mathematics and Biology:  How do they help each other? Why does time go one way?  A thermodynamic answer. The probabilistic description of high dimensional dynamical systems

Sept 1994

Armand Borel 

Values of zeta-functions at integers, cohomology and polylogarithms

Mar 1994

Leo Kadanoff

Complexity and Simplicity in Partial Differential Equations:  Explorations of the territory between math and physics Convective Turbulence:  Some Experiments and a Little Theory Singularity Formation and Interface Motion:  Asymptotic Analysis and Universal Behavior From Hopping to Hydrodynamics:  PDE and automata

Feb 1994

E. Quinto*

Computerized Tomography 

Oct 1993

Thomas Banchoff*

The Fourth Dimension and Interactive Computer Graphics Interactive Computer Graphics and the Fourth Dimension

Mar 1993

Charles Peskin*

Computer Simulation of Blood Flow in the Heart Fiber Architecture of a Heart Valve Leaflet

Feb 1993

Renormalization in Dynamics and Geometry

Oct 1992

Doris Schattschneider*

Visions of Symmetry:  Escher as a Mathematician Tilings by Hand and Computer 

Feb 1992

R. Devaney* 

Chaos, Fractals and Dynamics The Mathematics Behind the Mandelbrot Set

Nov 1991

Thomas Spencer 

Scaling and Localization and Density of States Area Preserving Maps with Small Noise 

Nov 1991

M. Rabin 

Randomized Algorithms; Solving Impossible Problems by Unpredictable Steps Parallel Algorithms. Proving a Truth and Nothing Else; Interactive Proofs and Cryptography Randomness in Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

Apr 1991

Richard Guy*

No Calculus, Please! Beanstalk and Beans Don’t Talk

Jan 1991

Jurgen Moser

Stability in Dynamical Systems

Nov 1990

Cliff Taubes 

A Biased but Brief History of Gauge Theories, Instantons 4-manifold Invariants and Mayer-Vietoris

Apr 1990

V.I. Arnold

Newton’s Principia 300 Years Later Singularities and Bifurcations 

Oct 1989

Andrew Majda

Mathematics Fluid Dynamics:  The Interaction of Nonlinear Analysis and Modern Applied Mathematics

Oct 1989

Gopal Prasad

Arithmetic of Semi-simple Groups 

Apr 1989

Benedict Gross

Representations of GL(2) and Number Theory

Nov 1988

David Jerison 

The Geometry of Harmonic Measure

Apr 1988

W. Hugh Woodin

Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Nature of Independence