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Everett Pitcher Lecture Series

Overview

The Pitcher lectures are held in honor of Everett Pitcher, who served in Lehigh's Department of Mathematics from 1938 until 1978, when he retired as Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He was secretary of the American Mathematical Society from 1967 until 1988. He died on December 4, 2006, at the age of 94.

Past Pitcher Lectures

Pitcher Lecture 2022
Speaker: Avi Wigderson
Topic: The Computational Lens
Date: April 2022

Pitcher Lecture 2019 
Speaker: Richard S. Hamilton 
Topic: The Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture
Date: April 2019

Pitcher Lecture 2017
Speaker: Kannan Soundararajan
Topic: Primes Fall for the Gambler's Fallacy
Date: September 2017

Pitcher Lecture 2016
Speaker: Shing-Tung Yau
Topic: The Shape of Inner Space
Date: March 2016

Pitcher Lecture 2015
Speaker: Wendelin Werner
Topic: Drawing at Random
Date: April 2015

Pitcher Lecture 2014
Speaker: Terrence Tao
Topic: Bounded Gaps Between Primes
Date: March 2014

Pitcher Lecture 2013
Speaker: Gunnar Carlsson
Topic: The Shape of Data
Date: March 2013

Pitcher Lecture 2012
Speaker: William P. Minicozzi II
Topic: Singularities in mean curvature flow
Date: April 2012

Pitcher Lecture 2011
Speaker: Manjul Bhargava
Topic: Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms in Arithmetic
Date: March 2011

Pitcher Lecture 2010
Speaker: Rick Durrett
Topic: Three Faces of Probability
Date: March 2010

Pitcher Lecture 2009
Speaker: Maria Chudnovsky
Topic: The Perfect Graphs - Structure and Recognition
Date: March 2009

Pitcher Lecture 2008
Speaker: Persi Diaconis
Topic: The Search for Randomness
Date: March 2008

Pitcher Lecture 2007
Speaker: George E. Andrews
Topic: The Indian Genius, Ramanujan: His Life and the Excitement of His Mathematics
Date: April 2007

Pitcher Lecture 2006
Speaker: Sir Roger Penrose
Topic: Before the Big Bang and Twistor Theory
Date: March 2006

Pitcher Lecture 2005
Speaker: Peter Sarnak
Topic: Arithmetic and analysis on locally symmetric spaces
Date: March 2005

Pitcher Lecture 2003
Speaker: J. Arthur
Topic: Automorphic Forms and the Trace Formula 
Date: April 2003

Pitcher Lecture 2002
Speaker: J. Birman
Topic: Recognizing the Unknot
Date: July 2002

Pitcher Lectures 2001
Speaker: P. Shor
Topic: Quantum Information and Computation
Date: November 2001

Speaker: I. M. Singer
Topic: Index Theory in Mathematics and Physics
Date: March 2001

Pitcher Lecture 1999
Speaker: H.S. Wilf
Topic: The Recursive Structure of Combinatorial Families
Date: April 1999

Pitcher Lecture 1998
Speaker: C. Morawetz
Topic: Revisiting the Wave Equation
Date: April 1998

Pitcher Lecture 1997
Speaker: B. Mandelbrot
Topic: Fractals in Mathematics and the Sciences
Date: March 1997

Pitcher Lecture 1996
Speaker: C. Pomerance
Topic: Primes: a computational approach 
Date: April 1996

Pitcher Lectures 1994
Speaker: M. Hopkins
Topic: Modular Forms and Stable Homotopy 
Date: November 1994

Speaker: M. Talagrand
Topic: Isoperimetric Inequalities and Concentration of Measure in Product Spaces 
Date: February 1994 

Pitcher Lectures 1993
Speaker: P. Hall
Topic: Statistical Estimation of Fractal Dimension
Date: October 1993

Speaker: R. Graham
Topic: Quasi-randomness and Combinatorics
Date: April 1993

Pitcher Lecture 1992
Speaker: J. Conway
Topic: Geometry and Numbers 
Date: April 1992

Pitcher Lectures 1990
Speaker: J. Tits
Topic: Monster and Moonshine: A Survey 
Date: November 1990

Speaker: S. Smale
Topic: Theory of Computation. On the Problem "P != NP" for the Real and Complex Numbers 
Date: March 1990

Pitcher Lecture 1989
Speaker: F. John
Topic: Non-linear Wave Equations, Formation of Singularities
Date: April 1989

Pitcher Lectures 1987
Speaker: J. Milnor
Topic: Iterated Polynomial Maps
Date: October 1987

Speaker: J. Tate
Topic: Elliptic Curves and Modular Symbols 
Date: April 1987

Pitcher Lectures 1985
Speaker: M. Atiyah
Topic: The Mystery of Four Dimensions 
Date: October 1985

Speaker: J. Moser
Topic: Stability of Hamiltonian Systems 
Date: March 1985

Pitcher Lectures 1983
Speaker: J.-P. Serre
Topic: Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties 
Date: December 1983

Speaker: R. Bott
Topic: Some Applications of Equivariant DeRahm Theory
Date: April 1983