Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2023

Professor Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Dirac Lecture

Learning in a quantum world

Professor John Preskill - California Institute of Technology.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:30-16:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Universality for groups

Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard).

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:15

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

"Black Holes, Thermodynamics and Information Loss"

Professor Robert Wald (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Asymptotics beyond all orders: the devil's invention?

Professor Jon Chapman (Oxford).

Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Dirac Lecture

The entropy of Hawking Radiation.

Professor Juan Maldacena - Institute for Advanced Studies.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 May 2022, 14:30-16:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

From the possibility to the certainty of a supermassive black hole

Professor Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles).

Online by Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Undecidability in number theory

Professor Bjorn Poonen, MIT.

Zoom.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Coating Liquid Films down a Vertical Fibre

Part of the GKB 100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series, registration required, and now closed

Zing Ding, Harbin, Institute of Technology, China.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 07 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Infinite Phase Space and the Two-Headed Arrow of Time

Professor Alan Guth (MIT).

Online by Zoom.

Friday 18 December 2020, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

CANCELLED - Undecidability in number theory

Bjorn Poonen, MIT.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2020, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-17:30

Dirac Lecture

From fractional quantum Hall effect to field-theoretic dualities

Professor Dam Thanh Son University of Chicago.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 14:30-16:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

The intrinsic allure of extrinsic curvature

Professor Philip Nelson (University of Pennsylvania).

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?

Professor John Ellis FRS .

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2018

Professor Gerard t' Hooft, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Dirac Lecture

Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Nathan Seiberg (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton)..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 May 2018, 14:30-16:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Regularity of interfaces in phase transitions via obstacle problems

Alessio Figalli (ETH).

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: LIGO and Beyond

Professor Kip Thorne.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Dirac Lecture

Antimatter: Dirac's incredible prediction and its consequences

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Helen Quinn (Harvard).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-16:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Heat Rises: 100 Years of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection (Rouse Ball Lecture)

Professor Charles Doering (University of Michigan).

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Using Optimization to Reveal Scaling Laws in Turbulent Flows

Richard Kerswell, Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Bristol.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 19 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Optimization-based flow analysis

Professor Peter Schmid, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Dirac Lecture

"Too beautiful to be false"

Professor Michael Green FRS (University of Cambridge).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

Boutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli.

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 23 May 2016, 10:45-17:45

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) .

MR2, CMS.

Friday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

The Mathematics of Doodling

Professor Ravi Vakil (Stanford University).

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Friday 22 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2016

Harnessing the Quantum World

Professor Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo.

Lady Mitchell Hall.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Lucasian Professorship Inaugural Lecture - Two Theories of Jamming Transitions

Professor Mike Cates.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random walk on the random graph

Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond).

MR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Friday 12 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

Daniel Spielman (Yale).

MR2, CMS.

Monday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

Dirac Lecture

What is an Electron?

Professor Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 May 2015, 16:00-17:15

Rouse Ball Lectures

Mathematics of Crime

Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Friday 24 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Professor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Insittue of Technology.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgewick Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

MR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

Yuval Peres (MSR Redmond) , Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) , Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) .

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 October 2014, 16:00-19:00

Sex by numbers

Professor David Spiegelhalter, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 September 2014, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lecture

Professor Richard Taylor, Institute of Advanced Study.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Dirac Lecture

Paul Dirac and the Development of Quantum Theory

Professor Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and St John's College.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

The Pointless Universe

Professor Michael Green FRS, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sigdwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

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The Mathematics of Planet Earth

John Baez, University of California, Riverside.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Successes and prospects of geometric numerical integration

An LMS-NZMS Aitken Lecture

Robert McLachlan, Massey University, New Zealand.

MR 5, CMS.

Thursday 03 October 2013, 15:00-16:00

Mathematics of Information: the Next Frontier

Dr Anders Hansen and Professor Arieh Iserles, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 September 2013, 15:00-16:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

The quandary of the quark

Professor Christine Davies, University of Glasgow.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Dirac Lecture

The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and its scalar boson

Professor François Englert - Université libre de Bruxelles.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 13 May 2013, 14:45-16:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2013

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2013

Professor Frank Close OBE, University of Oxford.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Friday 15 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

Paul Seidel (MIT).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

Dirac Lecture

Is the end of the Standard Model nigh ?

Professor John Ellis, FRS Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics - King's College London..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 14:45-16:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Universality for Wigner random matrices

Professor Terence Tao, UCLA.

Babbage Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2012 - On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: The Forgotten Contribution of Medieval Physicists

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

Friday 16 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Symmetry breaking at X chromosome inactivation

Dr Mario Nicodemi (Naples).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 30 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical models of biological locomotion in fluids

Dr Eric Lauga (San Diego).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 30 January 2012, 14:45-15:45

Life at the front of expanding populations

Dr Oskar Hallatschek (Göttingen).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 30 January 2012, 13:30-14:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Well-quasi-ordering binary matroids (Aitken Lecture)

Geoff Whittle (Victoria University of Wellington).

MR12.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

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Quantum Complexity and Computation

Richard Jozsa, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics.

Meeting Room 2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Dirac Lecture

The Nature of True Mathematical Physics

Professor Ludwig Faddeev, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St Petersburg.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 23 May 2011, 14:45-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Short presentations of finite groups

Alex Lubotzky.

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 17:00-18:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

Non linear problems involving non local diffusions

Professor Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory).

Wolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 April 2011, 14:00-19:00

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Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2011 - by Professor Brian Greene

Professor Brian Greene.

Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Friday 18 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

The Geometry of Minimal Surfaces

Professor Blaine Lawson, Stony Brook University, USA.

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Friday 21 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Dirac Lecture

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

Professor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

The Amazing Diversity of Planetary Systems

Professor Michel Mayor, University of Geneva.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Discrete complex analysis and probability

Stanislav Smirnov (University of Geneva).

Wolfson Lecture Room (AL.06), Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-18:00

George Batchelor and David Crighton: A Celebration of their Lives and Work

The Work and Life of G K Batchelor

Professor Keith Moffatt (DAMTP).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wolfson Room.

Monday 19 April 2010, 17:15-18:00

George Batchelor and David Crighton: A Celebration of their Lives and Work

The Work and Life of D G Crighton

Professor Shon Ffowcs Williams (CUED).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wolfson Room.

Monday 19 April 2010, 16:30-17:15

George Batchelor and David Crighton: A Celebration of their Lives and Work

Recent Developments in Fluid-structure Interaction based on the Work of D G Crighton

Professor Nigel Peake (DAMTP).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wolfson Room.

Monday 19 April 2010, 15:05-15:50

George Batchelor and David Crighton: A Celebration of their Lives and Work

Recent Developments in Micro-hydrodynamics based on the Work of G K Batchelor

Professor John Hinch (DAMTP).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wolfson Room.

Monday 19 April 2010, 14:20-15:05

Rouse Ball Lectures

The mathematics of collective synchronization

Professor Steven Strogatz, Cornell University, USA.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Dirac Lecture

From Plato to Quarks and Back

Professor Alexander Polyakov (Princeton).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 May 2009, 14:45-16:00

Mordell Lectures

KAM and Rigidity

Professor Anatole Katok (Penn State University).

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

How Many Universes Are There?

Professor Paul Davies.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

Monday 04 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Geometric PDE

The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m.

Prof Tobias Colding (MIT).

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Rouse Ball Lectures

Geometry and Topology of 3-dimensional spaces

All interested are invited to attend.

Professor John Morgan, Columbia University, USA.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Singularities of Harmonic Maps, Minimal Surfaces and Mean Curvature Flows

Dr Neshan Wickramasekera (DPMMS).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

The Mathematics of Epidemics: History Of and Recent Developments in Epidemic Outbreak Analysis

All interested are invited to attend.

Professor Sir Roy Anderson, FRS, FMedSci , Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

Thursday 17 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Mordell Lectures

Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation

Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH-Zurich.

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

The Mathematics of Million-Dimensional Probabilities

All interested are invited to attend

Professor Adrian Smith, FRS Principal of Queen Mary, University of London.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 12:00-13:00

Mordell Lectures

Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists

The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. in St John's College gardens.

Professor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University.

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations

The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. at the Trinity bowling green (Nevile's Court cloisters if wet).

Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton.

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 May 2005, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics

Professor Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University.

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 May 2004, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Bernoulli Numbers, Congruences and Modular Forms

Professor Barry Mazur, Harvard.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

Tuesday 11 May 2004, 12:00-13:00

Mordell Lectures

Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms

The lecture will be followed by drinks in Pavilion E Common Room

Professor Mike Hopkins, MIT.

Wolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 May 2003, 17:00-18:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Computational Cosmology

Professor J.P. Ostriker, Institute of Astronomy.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge..

Tuesday 06 May 2003, 12:00-13:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

Random planar curves and conformal invariance

Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud).

Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 July 2001, 18:00-19:00

Rollo Davidson Lectures

The mathematics of making a mess

Professor Persi Diaconis (Harvard).

Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Wednesday 08 May 1996, 17:00-18:00