Ziwet Lectures

Alexander Ziwet was born in Breslau, Germany, February 8, 1853, of German and Polish ancestry. His early education was obtained in a German gymnasium. He afterwards studied in the universities of Warsaw and Moscow, one year at each, and then entered the Polytechnic School at Karlsruhe, where he received the degree of Civil Engineer in 1880. He came immediately to the United States and received employment on the United States Lake Survey. Two years later he was transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, computing division, where he remained five years. In 1888 he was appointed Instructor in Mathematics in the University of Michigan. From this position he was advanced to Acting Assistant Professor in 1890, to Assistant Professor in 1891, to Junior Professor in 1896, and to Professor of Mathematics in 1904.¹

The Ziwet Lectures were established in 1934 through a bequest from Professor Ziwet, Chair of the UM Department of Mathematics from 1888-1925. He stipulated that his estate “should be used for the promotion of scientific work.” The Ziwet lectures have been one of the most prestigious lecture series in the department. Following is a list of distinguished mathematicians who have given Ziwet Lectures.

Year	Speaker	Lecture Title
April 15 - 17, 2025	Irene Fonesca	TBA
September 10 - 12, 2024	June Huh	Poster Lorentzian Polynomials, Matroids over Hyperfields, and Related Topics
February 19 - 21, 2024	Wilfrid Gangbo	Poster Morrey's Theory and Direct Methods of the Calculus of Variations On Differentiability in the Wasserstein Space Hamilton-Jacobi Equations in the Wasserstein Space
October 11 - 13, 2022	Leonid Polterovich	Poster (pdf) Topological Persistence in Geometry and Analysis Symplectic Maps: Algebra, Geometry, Dynamics Big Fiber Theorems and Ideal-Valued Measures
February 18-19, 2020	Laura DeMarco	Poster (pdf) Complex Dynamics and Elliptic Curves
April 10-12, 2018	Gunther Uhlmann	Colloquium. Harry Potter's Cloak via Transformation Optics Lecture 2. Journey to the Center of the Earth Lecture 3. Seeing Through Space Time
March 15-17, 2016	Percy Deift	Poster (pdf) Universality in numerical computations with random data. Case Studies Riemann-Hilbert problems The Toda eigenvalue algorithm: Universality of fluctuations of halting times
March 12-14, 2013	Michael J. Hopkins	The Kervaire Invariant Problem (pdf) Equivariant Homotopy Theory and the Solution to the Kervaire Invariant Problem (pdf) Equivariant Multiplicative Closure (pdf)
January 15-16, 2013	H.-T. Yau	Universality of Random Matrices and Log-Gases (pdf) Dyson's Brownian and De Georgi-Nash-Moser Theory of Parabolic Regularity
Sept 18-20, 2012	Felix Otto	Poster (pdf) Pattern formation and Partial Differential Equations (pdf) Optimal estimates in stochastic homogenization (pdf) Domain patterns in thin-film ferromagnets (pdf)
March 27-29, 2012	Emmanuel Candes	From Compressive Sensing to Super-Resolution (pdf)
November, 2011	David Eisenbud	Vector Bundles and Free Resolutions (pdf)
March, 2011	N. Trefethen	Approximation by Rational Funcitons (pdf)
Nov, 2010	C.H. Woodin	The search for Ultimate L (pdf) Video MP4 Forcing axioms and Unsolvable Problems (pdf) Video MP4 Multiverse Views and the Conjecture (pdf) Video MP4
Jan 2010	C. Skinner	Modular Forms and Special Values of L-Functions (pdf)
Oct 2009	C. Villani	What goes on in a plasma? Vlasov-Fokker-Planck: Relaxation with degenerate dissipation Landau damping: relaxation without dissipation
Apr 2009	J. Tyson	How Do Cells Compute Temporal Organization of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Mathematical Challenges in Systems Biology
Nov 2008	I. Karatzas	Some Stochastic Control Problems in Mathematical Finance Volatility Stabilization, Diversity and Arbitrage Optimal Arbitrage
Feb 2008	C. McMullen	Billiards and Teichmuller Theory Islands on Algebraic Surfaces Topology of Numbers
Sept 2006	J. Marsden	Invariant Manifolds and Coherent Structures Discrete Mechanics, Variational Integrators & Optimization A Plethora of Geodesics on Lie Groups
2003	M. Artin
2001	W. Gowers
2000	P. Sarnak
1997	J. Bourgain
1992	R.L. Graham
1990	G.A. Margulis
1988	K. Uhlenbeck
1986	P.D. Lax
1984	R.H. Bott
1982	S.T. Yau
1980	W.P. Thurston
1978	E. Bombieri
1976	I.M. Singer
1974	D. Mumford
1970	L.V. Ahlfors
1968	M. Atiyah
1966	J. Milnor
1964	L. Nirenberg
1962	I. Kaplansky
1960	J.H.C. Whitehead
1958	M. Kac
1953	A.M. Gleason
1949	R.H. Fox
1946	K. Friedrichs
1944	C. Chevalley
1944	J.W.T. Youngs
1944	P. Erdos
1941	S. MacLane
1939	J. von Neumann
1938	E. Hecke
1937	O. Szasz
1936	R.A. Fisher
1936	Eduard Cech

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Ziwet Lectures

1. Burke A. Hinsdale and Isaac Newton Demmon, History of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1906), pp. 320-321.