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Einstein Lectures

Background

picture of EinsteinThe American Mathematical Society sponsors a series of public lectures in mathematics entitled The AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics. The lectures began in 2005, to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis. They are to be given annually at one of the Society's eight sectional meetings. The year 1905 marked the publication by Albert Einstein in Germany of three fundamental papers that changed the course of twentieth-century physics. Einstein later moved to the United States, where he became a founding member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

The next Einstein Public Lecture will be given by Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles, at the sectional meeting to be held at UCLA October 9-10, 2010.

Einstein Lectures

 

04/04/09 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2009 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California
Reading DNA sequences:Twenty-first century technology with eighteenth century mathematics
http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/einstein-lecture-poster-09.pdf

10/6/07 Rutgers University-New Brunswick, College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick, NJ, 2007 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Sir Roger Penrose, University of Oxford
Spacetime Conformal Geometry, and a New Extended Cosmology
http://www.ams.org/meetings/Einstein-lecture-poster-8.5x11.pdf

4/29/06 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 2006 Spring Western Section Meeting
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Yale University
The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science, and Art
http://www.ams.org/meetings/mandelbrot-poster-ltr.pdf

10/21/05 University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 2005 Fall Central Section Meeting
Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh
The Nature of Space
Please see the following press releases and reviews:

http://www.ams.org/notices/200606/comm-walker.pdf

http://www.ams.org/ams/press/einstein-2005.html
http://www.math.unl.edu/~bharbourne1/AMSkeepers/OctoberAMSPhotos.html

 

Updated: 11/26/2008 , pop@ams.org