Previous Pekeris Memorial Lectures

 

2014

Prof. James D. Murray (University of Oxford & Princeton University ) Why there are no 3-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages, March 11, 2014.

2013

Prof. Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University ) Art + : Intersections of Art and Mathematics, March 07, 2013.

2012

Prof. Christiane Rousseau (University of Montreal ) What can we learn from the singularities? March 21, 2012.

2011

Prof. Cedric Villani (University of Lyon & Institute Henri Poincaré) Entropy and H Theorem: The Mathematical Legacy of Ludwig Boltzmann, March 08, 2011.

2010 Prof. Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers University) ...We have come a long way (or did we?): A Redux of Pekeris' 1958 Computations on a 2010 Computer, June 30, 2010.
2009 Prof. Daphne Koller (Stanford University) Probabilistic Models for Holistic Scene Understanding, June 17, 2009.
2008 Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Bringing Systems Biology to Life, March 19, 2008.
2007 Prof. Stephen Smale (University of California, Berkeley) On the Mathematics of Vision, May 14, 2007.
2006 Prof. Peter Sarnak (Princeton University) Equidistribution and Primes, May 15, 2006.
2005 Prof. Christos Papadimitriou (University of California at Berkeley) Networks and Games, March 22, 2005.
2004 Prof. Efim Zelmanov (University of California, San Diego) On Large Pro-p Groups, April 28, 2004.
2003 Prof. Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles) Reasoning with Cause and Effect, June 8, 2003.
2002 Prof. Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University) Methods and Challenges in Discrete Mathematics, May 28, 2002.
2001 Prof. Richard Karp (University of Washington, Seattle) Computational Challenges from Molecular Biology and Genomics, April 17, 2001.
2000 Prof. Louis Nirenberg (Courant Institute, New York University) Some Historical Remarks on Partial Differential Equations, April 16, 2000.
1999 Prof. Laszlo Lovasz (Yale University) Random Walks and Algorithms, May 3, 1999.
1998 Prof. Yisrael Aumann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Game Theory in the Talmud, June 1, 1998.
1997 Prof. Amir Pnueli (The Weizmann Institute of Science) Temporal Verification: From Reactive to Hybrid Systems, March 18, 1997.
1996 Prof. Robert P. Langlands (Institute for Advanced Study) Finite Forms of Renormalization for Percolation and Other Lattice Models, March 21, 1996.
1995 Prof. George F. Oster (University of California, Berkeley) Molecular Motors and Brownian Motion, June 7, 1995.
1994 Sir James Lighthill (University College London) Ocean Tides from Newton to Pekeris, February 22, 1994.
Sir James Lighthill, Ocean Tides from Newton to Pekeris (The First Chaim Leib Pekeris Memorial Lecture), Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1995. (c) The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.