University of Wisconsin–Madison

Distinguished Lectures

The Distinguished Lecture series

The University of Wisconsin Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics was started in 1996. Generally, there is one lecture in the series during each semester given by a leading mathematical researcher.

Distinguished Lecturers

YearLecturer
1996Gang Tian
1997Carl Pomerance
1998Elias Stein
1998Constantine Dafermos
1999Janos Kollar
1999Robert MacPherson
2000Persi Diaconis
2001Terence Tao
2001Cumrun Vafa
2002George Papanicolaou
2002Armand Borel
2002Alex Wilkie
2003Friedrich Hirzebruch
2004Stefan Hildebrandt
2004Rajesh Gopakumar
2006Helmut Hofer
2006Andrew Majda
2007Greg Lawler
2007Jeff Cheeger
2008Weinan E
2008Blaine Lawson
2009Emanuel Candes
2009Shou-Wu Zhang
2010Gunnar Carlsson
2010Tom Hales
2011Bernd Sturmfels
2012Benedict Gross
2013Alexei Borodin
2014David Eisenbud
2014Ngô Bao Châu
2017Roger Temam
2018Alex Lubotzky
2018Andre Neves
2018Gunther Uhlmann
2019Shafi Goldwasser
2021Geordie Williamson
2022Kristin Lautner (originally scheduled for 2020)
Rob Lazarsfeld
Larry Guth
2023Yair Minsky
Edris Titi
2024Maksym Radziwill
2025Mladen Bestvina