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The Courant Lectures are a series of lectures in mathematics, established in 1958 to honour the mathematician Richard Courant on his seventieth birthday.[1] Each lecture is delivered at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University by an eminent mathematician. The first, on 11 May 1959, was Eugene Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".[2][3]

The lectures were originally intended to be delivered every two years,[1] but their frequency has varied. Since the 1990s, most speakers have delivered two related lectures.[4]

Past speakers

Date Speaker Lecture(s)
I 1959-05-11 Eugene P. Wigner The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
II ? Otto Neugebauer The Sources of Medieval Mathematical Astronomy
III ? Heinz Hopf
IV ? Carl Ludwig Siegel
V 1975-05-12 Chen-Ning Yang Gauge Theory: An Example of Fiber Bundle Theory in Physics
VI 1982-04-28 William P. Thurston On the Geometry of Three-Manifolds
VII 1982-04-29 Michael O. Rabin Randomization in Computation
VIII 1987-05-04 Robert E. Tarjan New Themes in Data Structure Design
IX 1987-05-09 Dennis P. Sullivan Analysis on Quasi-Conformal Manifolds and Yang-Mills Fields
X 1988-10-06 Clifford Taubes Stable Morse Theory for an Algebraic Variety’s Map into a Grassmania
XI 1988-10-07 Richard Karp The Polynomial-time Frontier: Recent Development in Computational Complexity
XII 1988-10-07 Roger Penrose Complex Geometry in Physics
XIII 1996-03 Gang Tian 1: Nonlinear Equations in Complex Differential Geometry

2: Nonlinear Equations in Complex Differential Geometry

XIV 1997 Fang Hua Lin 1: Energy Concentrations for the Ginzburg-Landau Equations

2: Minimal Submanifolds Vortices and Filaments Dynamics

XV 1997-04 Gordon Bell 1: Telework

2: New Computer Classes: The Platforms, Interfaces, and Networks

XVI 1998 Paul Garabedian Supercritical Wing Sections and Computational Plasma Physics
XVII 1998-04 Herbert B. Keller 1: A New Theory for Differential Algebraic Equations

2: Option Pricing

XVIII 2000-04 Ivar Ekeland 1: Nonlinear Problems Arising from Economic Theory: The Inverse Problem for Demand Functions

2: Nonlinear Problems Arising from Economic Theory: Variational Problems with Convexity Constraints

XIX 2002-03 Lawrence C. Evans 1: Some PDE methods for weak KAM theory: Introduction and Heuristics

2: Some PDE methods for weak KAM theory: Estimates and Applications

XX 2003-04 Pierre-Louis Lions 1: Atomic Physics to Nonlinear Elasticity: A Mathematical Attempt

2: On Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

XXI 2003-11-20 Barbara Keyfitz 1: What Studying Quasi-Steady Problems Can Tell Us About Steady Transonic Flow

2: On the Mathematics of General Relativity and Nonlinear Wave Equations

XXII 2007-03 Jean-Michel Bismut 1: Traces, Determinants, and Probability Theory

2: Quillen metrics, the hypoelliptic Laplacian: the role and the functional integral

XXIII 2008-03 Jon Kleinberg 1: The Geography of Social and Information Networks

2: Modeling Social and Economic Exchange in Networks

XXIV 2009-03 Emmanuel Candès 1: The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: the Surprising Story of Compressive Sensing

2: The Amazing Power of Convex Relaxation: the Surprising Story of Matrix Completion

XXV 2010-04 Alfio Quarteroni 1: Complexity reduction in the numerical approximation of Partial Differential Equations

2: Mathematical models for the cardiovascular system: analysis, numerical simulation, applications

XXVI 2011-04 Persi Diaconis 1: The Search for Randomness

2: Mathematical Analysis of 'Hit and Run' Algorithms

XXVII 2012 Daniel Spielman 1: Algorithms, Graph Theory, and Laplacian Linear Equations

2: Sparsification of Graphs and Approximation of Matrices

XXVIII 2013-04 Bernhard Schölkopf 1: Statistical and Causal Learning

2: Inference of Cause and Effect

XXIX 2014-04 Simon Donaldson 1: Kahler metrics and projective embedding I: approximation and asymptotics

2: Kahler metrics and projective embedding II: Gromov-Hausdorff limits

XXX 2015-04 Shafi Goldwasser 1: On Time and Order in Cryptography

2: The Cryptographic Lens

XXXI 2016-03 Horng-Tzer Yau 1: Random Matrix Statistics - A new class of statistical laws for highly correlated systems

2: Beyond Mean Field Theory and d-regular graphs

XXXII 2017-04 Avi Wigderson 1: Operator scaling - theory and applications

2: Symbolic matrices

XXXIII 2018-10 Andrea L. Bertozzi 1: The Mathematics of Crime

2: Swarming by Nature and by Design

XXXIV 2023-03 Andrew Stuart 1: The Legacy of Rudolph Kalman: Applications, Algorithms and Analysis

2: The Mean-Field Ensemble Kalman Filter

XXXV 2024-05 Michel Talagrand Chaining: A Long Story

References

  1. ^ a b Reid, Constance (1986). Hilbert–Courant. Springer. p. 520. ISBN 0-387-96256-5.
  2. ^ "Scientists in the News". Science. 129 (3361). 29 May 1959.
  3. ^ Wigner, E. P. (1960). "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard Courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959". Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 13 (1): 1–14. Bibcode:1960CPAM...13....1W. doi:10.1002/cpa.3160130102. S2CID 6112252. Archived from the original on 2021-02-12.
  4. ^ New York University. "Courant Lectures". Retrieved 9 May 2026.

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