Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
The Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture was established by friends and family of the late Leonidas Alaoglu in recognition of his great talents, distinguished contributions to mathematics, and long friendship with Caltech. The Institute is privileged to honor his memory with a lecture each year by an outstanding mathematician.
2025
"Finite quotients of 3-manifold groups"
2024
"Meromorphic functions and modern Abel-Jacobi theory"
2023
"Local Langlands Conjectures"
2017
Daniel Wise
"The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups"
2016
"Relatively Few Rational Points"
2015
"Microlocal analysis on representation and applications to Number Theory"
2014
Avi Wigderson
"The power of weakness and randomness (when you are short on time)"
2013
Ian Agol
"The virtual Haken conjecture"
2012
Spencer Bloch
"Motives associated to configuration spaces, fundamental groups,..."
2011
Henry Iwaniec
"The Exceptional Character Issues"
2010
Leonid Polterovich
"Symplectic rigidity and quantum-classical correspondence"
2009
Nicholas Katz
"Simple Things We Don't Know"
2008
Karen Vogtmann
"Geometries for automorphism groups of free groups"
2007
W. Hugh Woodin
"The Universe Beyond (Far Beyond)"
2006
James Arthur
"Weighted Orbital Integrals and the Langlands Program"
2005
Gregory Margulis
"Oppenheim conjecture"
2004
Richard Taylor
"Elliptic curves and modular forms"
2003
Curtis McMullen
"Billiards"
2002
Yukov Sinai
"Statistical 3x + 1 - problem"
2001
Michael Atiyah
"Solitions Symmetry and Fullerenes"
2000
Walter Rudin
"Multivariate Phenomena in Complex Analysis"
1999
Robert Langlands
"Planar lattice models in statistical mechanics: A mathematicians dreams of an initial theory"
1998
Robert Steinberg
"A Selective History of Invariant Theory"
1997
"Hyperplane arrangements in algebra, combinatorics, geometry and topology"
1996
"Regularized Harmonic Series in Number Theory"
1995
"Can We Trust Computer-Generated Images?"
1994
"On the Communication and Understanding of Mathematics"
1993
"A Method of Proof by Approximation"
1992
"Binary Trees"
1991
"Two Centuries of Quadratic Fields"
1990
"Primes, Quantum Chaos and Computers"
1989
"The Harmonic Series: Applications and Unsolved Problems"
1988
"The Role of Weak Topology in Functional Analysis"