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The Kemeny Lectures


The Annual Kemeny Lectures
(A brief history of John G. Kemeny)
2009 Georgia Benkart April 21: Representations of Groups of Matrices - Yeah Schur
April 22: Determinants in Wonderland [ video ]
April 23: Travels to Hyperbolic Space Starting from an sl(2) Base
2008 Daniel Goldston April 23: Primes and Twin Primes [ video ]
April 24: Small Gaps Between Primes
April 24: Problems Related to Primes
2007 Richard Stanley May 3: Increasing and decreasing subsequences
May 3: A Survey of Plane Tilings [ video ]
May 4: Alternating permutations
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2006 Alan Weinstein April 27: Groupoids as generalized equivalence relations
April 27: Symmetry groupoids of crystals and networks [ video ]
April 28: The structure of proper groupoids
2005 Andrew Granville April 21: An introduction to additive combinatorics
April 21: Prime Number Races
April 22: Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov theorem
2004 Paul Baum April 14: Mathematical Impossibilities
April 15: The Dirac Operator
April 16: K-theory for Group C*-Algebras
2003 Robert Bryant May 12: Geometry Old and New: From Euclid to String Theory
May 13: New Zoll metrics on the 2-sphere
May 15: Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature
2001 John Roe April 30: The Art Of Coarse Mathematics
May 1: Homology Via Coarse Geometry
May 2: On Being Amenable
2000 Andrew Odlyzko May 1: Primes: What we do and don't know [ video ]
May 2: Zeros of the Riemann zeta function: Conjectures and computations
May 3: Polynomials with restricted coefficients: results & open problems [ video ]
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1999 Jeffrey Weeks May 5: The Shape of Space [ video ]
May 6: Curvature and the Universe [ video ]
May 7: Topological Questions in Cosmology [ video ]
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1998 Shiing-Shen Chern  
1997 Harold Stark April 30: A Non-Euclidean Big Bang
May 1: L-functions and Class Fields
May 2: Zeta Functions of Graphs and Quadratic Covers
1996 Peter Sarnak April 23: The distribution of prime numbers
April 24: The spectral nature of the zeros of zeta functions
April 25: Spectra of Riemannian manifolds
1995 David Griffeath April 19: Cellular Automata as Toy Universes
April 20: The Mathematics of Excitable Cellular Automata
April 21: The Mathematics of Threshold Growth