Elisha Netanyahu Memorial Lectures
The Elisha Netanyahu Memorial Lecture Series was established to honor the memory of the mathematician Elisha Netanyahu (1912-1986), who served the Technion from 1946 until his retirement in 1980.
The following is the list of distinguished mathematicians who have presented lectures in this series:
- 2022
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Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Lecture date: April 3, 2022
Title: The unreasonable ubiquity of logarithmically correlated fields and their extremes Video of the lecture
- 2020
- CANCELLED
Claire Voisin, College de France, France
Lecture date: March 30, 2020
Title: Hodge structures in algebraic geometry - 2019
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Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University, New York, USA
Lecture date: March 19, 17:00
Title: New roots of Lie theory - 2018
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Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Lecture date: June 25, 17:00
Title: Gravitational allocation on the sphere and overhanging blocks The Reception Video of the lecture
- 2017
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Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lecture date: June 7, 17:00
Title: Puzzles about trees, high dimensions, elections, errors and computation - 2016
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Haim Brezis, Rutgers University, The Technion, University of Paris VI
Lecture date: April 13, 17:00
Title: Old-new perspectives on the winding number (where Cauchy, Fourier, Sobolev and Bourgain meet) - 2015
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Alex Lubotzly, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lecture date: April 1, 17:00
Title: High dimensional expanders and Ramanujan complexes - 2014
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Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lecture date: April 2, 17:00
Title: Random Walks Using Isometries, Self Similar Measures, and Spectral Gap - 2013
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Efim Zelmanov, Departments of Mathematics University of California, San Diego.
Lecture date: April 10, 17:00
Title: Infinite Dimensional Superalgebras
Abstract: We will discuss various classification theories involving infinite dimensional Lie and Jordan superalgebras. - 2012
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Ronald R. Coifman, Departments of Mathematics and of Computer Science, Yale University.
Title: Geometric Harmonic Analysis on High Dimensional Point Clouds - 2011
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Avi Wigderson, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton.
Title: Geometry and Theoretical Computer Science. - 2010
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Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University.
Title: The Regularity Lemma of Szemeredi and Grothendieck type Inequalities. - 2009
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Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles.
Title: Recent Progress in the Spectral Distribution of Random Matrices. - 2008
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Wendelin Werner, University of Paris-Sud Orsay.
Title: Drawing and Coloring Large Pictures at Random. - 2007
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Robert J. Aumann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Title: Strategic Information Theory: Repeated Games with Incomplete Information. - 2006
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Richard V. Kadison, University of Pennsylvania.
Title: Re-examining the Pythagorean Theorem - a Functional Analyst's View. - 2005
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Samuel Karlin, Stanford University.
Title: The Mathematics of Bioinformatics. - 2004
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Don Zagier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn.
Title: From Modular Forms to Cohomology. - 2003
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David Kazhdan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University.
Title: Theory of representations and algebraic geometry. - 2001
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Andrew R. Casson, Yale University.
Title: Some Mysteries of Low-Dimensional Topology. - 2000
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Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute of Mathematics.
Title: Estimates for Composite Material. - 1999
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Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Title: Fractal Geometry, Dimension, and Information Theory. - 1998
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Seppo Rickman, University of Helsinki.
Title: Geometric Decomposition Spaces and Maps of Bounded Length Distortion. - 1997
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Charles Fefferman, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Title: Conformal Invariants in N Dimensions. - 1996
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Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Title: Is Number Theory as Easy as ABC. - 1995
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Joan Birman, Columbia University.
Title: What's Happening in Knot Theory? - 1994
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Olli Lehto, University of Helsinki.
Title: Classical Function Theory and Quasiconformal Mappings. - 1993
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Michael O. Rabin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University.
Title: Computational Aspects of Classical Number-Theoretic Theorems. - 1992
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Frederick W. Gehring, University of Michigan.
Title: Isolation in Discrete Mobius Groups. - 1991
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Walter K. Hayman, University of York, UK.
Title: The Conformal Mapping of Long Quadrilaterals and Thick Annuli. - 1990
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Lars V. Ahlfors, Harvard University.
Title: Power Series in a Jordan Algebra. - 1989
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Beno Eckmann, ETH, Zurich.
Title: The Euler Characteristic - Theme and Variations. - 1988
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Lipman Bers, Columbia University.
Title: Introduction to Quasiconformal Mappings and Their Applications. - 1987
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Professor Paul Erdös, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Title: Interpolation and Extremal Properties of Polynomials.