PAUL TURÁN MEMORIAL LECTURES

(Turán Pál emlékelőadások)







1978

21 and 24 November, 1978
ALAN BAKER (Trinity College, Cambridge)

  • Applications of transcendence I-II.

    • 1980

    K. F. ROTH (Imperial College, London)

  • Irregularities of distribution and related questions

    • 1981

    7-9 November, 1981
    LENNART CARLESON (Sweden)

  • Recent results in Hp-theory

    • 1984

    3 and 5 April, 1984
    WOLFGANG M. SCHMIDT (Boulder, USA)

  • Lecture 1. Small zeros of quadratic forms
  • Lecture 2. Diophantine problems in many variables
  • Lecture 3. Exponential sums


    • 9-11 October, 1984
    ANDRZEJ SCHINZEL (Warsaw)

  • Reducibility of polynomials over an arbitrary field and over the rationals


    • 31 October, 1 and 2 November, 1984
    JEAN-PIERRE KAHANE (Paris)

  • Lecture 1. Multiplicative chaos
  • Lecture 2. Value distribution of a Gaussian (random) analytic function
  • Lecture 3. Greek mathematics and quadratic fields

    • 1985

    30 and 31 January, 1 February, 1985
    JA. G. SINAY

  • Lecture 1. Application of the Renormatization Group Method
  • Lecture 2. Mechanical models of Brownian motion
  • Lecture 3. Hydrodynamical limit transitions


    • 18-20 September, 1985
    ATLE SELBERG (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

  • Lectures on sieves

    • 1987

    28-30 September, 1987
    ENRICO BOMBIERI (Princeton Institute for Advanced Study)

  • On the distribution of primes in large arithmetic progressions

    • 1989

    16-18 January, 1989
    G. A. MARGULIS (Institute Problemy Peredatchi Informacii)

  • Discrete subgroups and ergodic theory

    • 1992

    21-23 April, 1992
    R.A. ASKEY (Madison University)

  • Lecture 1. Inequalities for Polynomials
  • Lecture 2. Extensions of Gamma and Beta Integrals and the Related Orthogonal Polynomials
  • Lecture 3. Ramanujan: Who was he, what did he do, and why do we still care?

    • 1994

    18-20 May, 1994
    ROBERT TIJDEMAN (University of Leiden)

  • Lecture 1. The abc-conjecture
  • Lecture 2. Arithmetic progressions with equal products I
  • Lecture 3. Arithmetic progressions with equal products II

    • 1995

    31 October, 1 and 2 November, 1995
    HENRYK IWANIEC (Rutgers University)

  • Lecture 1. Equidistribution of roots of quadrativ congruences to prime moduli
  • Lecture 2. The lattice points inside a sphere
  • Lecture 3. Gaussian primes

    • 1996

    20, 21, and 23 May, 1996
    LAX PÉTER (New York University)

  • Lecture 1. The distribution of lattice points in Euclidean spaces
  • Lecture 2. The distribution of lattice points in Hyperbolic spaces
  • Lecture 3. Factorization of bounded analytic functions

    • 1998

    17-19 February, 1998
    SHARON SHELAH (Hebrew University Jerusalem)

  • Lecture 1. Hilbert's First Problem Revisited
  • Lecture 2. Non structure Theory
  • Lecture 3. Nine Forcing Notions: The theory of iteration for the continuum

    • 2000

    3-5 October, 2000
    H. L. MONTGOMERY (Univ. of Michigan)

  • Lecture 1. The local distribution of prime numbers and the zeros of the Reimann zeta function
  • Lecture 2. Beuring's generalized primes
  • Lecture 3. Greedy sums of distinct squares

    • 2002

    26-28 November, 2002
    P. SARNAK (Univ. of Princeton)

  • Lecture 1. Sums of squares and Hilbert's 11th problem
  • Lecture 2. The spectra of modular surfaces
  • Lecture 3. The spectra of modular surfaces continued

    • 2004

    26-28 May, 2004
    EFIM ZELMANOV (Univ. of California)

  • Lecture 1. Profinite groups I: The Golod-Shafarevich condition
  • Lecture 2. Profinite groups II. Linear pro-p groups
  • Lecture 3. Lie (super)algebras graded by root systems

    • 2006

    21-23 November, 2006
    HILLEL FÜRSTENBERG (Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

  • Lecture 1. Number Theory, Combinatorics and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems; the Correspondence Principle
  • Lecture 2. Ergodicity, Mixing, Conventional and non-Conventional Ergodic Theorems
  • Lecture 3. The Long Term Memory of Dynamical Systems and the Strange Role of Nilpotent Groups and Nilflows

    • 2007

    24-26 September, 2007
    MIKHAIL GROMOV (IHS, France and the Courant Institute, NY, USA)

  • Combinatorics and Morse Theory

    • 2009

    17-19 February, 2009
    NOGA ALON (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

  • Lecture 1. The Probabilistic Method
  • Lecture 2. Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics
  • Lecture 3. The Structure of Large Graphs

    • 2011

    1-3 June, 2011
    Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research; Adjunct Professor at The University of Washington and at UC Berkeley)

  • Lecture 1. Laplacian growth
  • Lecture 2. Mysteries of the abelian sandpile
  • Lecture 3. Gravitational allocation to Poisson points