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 2024
Speaker: Dr. Richard Schoen
Topic: Geometry is a singular subject
Date: April 14, 2024
Pitcher Lecture 2023
Speaker: Sir Simon K. Donaldson
Topic: Moduli spaces of geometric structures, old and new
Date: April 10, 2023
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