2025
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The Traveling Salesman Problem: Package Deliveries, Pub Walks, and Astro Tours
William Cook – University of Waterloo
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Geometry and Physics: a Long History of Mutual Inspiration and Missed Opportunities
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon – Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette
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Certainty in Uncertain Times – From Hilbert’s Dream to Chaos
Eva Miranda
2024
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Machine Learning in Banking & Finance
Josef Teichmann – ETH Zürich
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Sign patterns of the Mobius function
Tamar Ziegler – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Topological perspectives on networks
Kathryn Hess Bellwald
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Random embeddings of graphs in surfaces
Bojan Mohar
2023
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Lorentz geometry and contact topology
Stefan Nemirovski – Steklov Mathematical Institute & Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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The phase transition phenomena in combinatorial structures
Tomasz Luczak – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
2022
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Computational Mathematics between Dynamics, Geometry and Algebra
Hans Zanna Munthe-Kaas – University of Bergen
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Taming the Monster of Independence
Menachem Magidor – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Expanders in higher dimensions
Irit Dinur – Weizmann Institute of Science
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The sustainability of safety, security and privacy
Ross Anderson – Security Engineering at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University
2020
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Hanan Samet lecture - CANCELLED
Hanan Samet – University of Maryland
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David Gamarnik lecture - CANCELLED
David Gamarnik – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Menachem Magidor lecture - CANCELLED
Menachem Magidor – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Tomasz Luczak lecture - CANCELLED
Tomasz Luczak – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
2019
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List Coloring
Noga Alon – Princeton University, USA, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Symmetry and Similarity
Martin Grohe – RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Enumeration Operators, Probability, Type Theory
Dana S. Scott – UC Berkeley, USA, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2018
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The Best Possible Shapes of Surfaces
Robert Bryant – Duke University, USA
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Algebraic Geometry and Differential Equations
Nigel Hitchin – Oxford University, UK
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Black Holes in the Universe (and Hollywood)
Roger Blandford – Stanford University, USA
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The Limits of Symmetric Computation
Anuj Dawar – University of Cambridge, UK
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Cosmology in the Laboratory
Ulf Leonhardt – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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Black Ninjas in the Dark: Analyzing Population Protocols
Javier Esparza – Technical University of Munich, Germany