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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics

Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics

Thomas Wolff
Credit: Caltech Archives

The Thomas Wolff lectures were established by the family of Thomas Wolff to honor his memory. Professor Wolff, a talented and insightful analyst, spent 18 years at Caltech nurturing the talents of young mathematicians. The Institute is privileged to honor his memory with a series of lectures each year by an outstanding mathematician working in analysis.

2025

Assaf Naor

"Distortion growth"
"From distortion growth to isoperimetry, and back again"
"Random zero sets"


2024

Jason Miller

"Random planar curves"
"Random surfaces"
"Liouville quantum gravity and SLE"


2019

Alexei Poltoratski

"Gap and Type problems in Fourier analysis"


2017

Mikhail Lyubich

"Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials, Complex and Real"
"Renormalization and Universality"
"Regular or Stochastic Dichotomy"
"Advances towards MLC"
"Area and Hausdorff Dimension of Julia Sets"


2016

Peter Jones

"Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 1"
"Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2"
"New Results of Bounded, Complete Minimal Surfaces"


2015

Alessio Figalli

"Regularity for the Monge-Ampère equation, with applications to the semigeostrophic equations"


2014

Gregory Lawler

"Random Walks and their Scaling Limits"


2013

Horng-Tzer Yau

"Universality of random matrices"
"Dyson Brownian Motion and the proof of Wigner-Dyson-Gaudin-Mehta conjecture"
"Coulomb Gases and De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory of parabolic regularity"


2011

Stanislav Smirnov

"Discrete Complex Analysis and Probability"


2011

Wilhelm Schlag

"Invariant manifolds and dispersive Hamiltonian evolution equations"


2010

Percy Deift

"Integrable systems: a modern view"


2009

Andrei Okounkov

"The algebra and geometry of random surfaces"


2008

Artur Avila

"Renormalization and quasiperiodicity in some low-dimensional dynamical systems"


2007

Ben Green

"Freiman's Theorem"
"Gowers Norms and Nilsequence"
"Arithmetic Progressions"
"Patterns of Primes"


2006

Peter Sarnak

"Equidistribution, groups and primes"


2005

Wendelin Werner

"Two-dimensional continuous random systems"


2004

Jean Bourgain

"New encounters in combinatorial number theory"


2003

Terrence Tao

"Longtime behavior of semilinear dispersive equations"


2001

Charles Fefferman

"Sharp fronts for incompressible fluids"