McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture Series

The McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Jeffry Fuqua, who received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Miami in 1972 under the direction of Professor James McKnight. This lecture series is named in honor of both Professor McKnight and Professor Alan Zame, who was a close mentor of Dr. Fuqua while he was a student at the University of Miami.

Most Recent Lecture
	March 8, 2024 Lisa Fauci Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor Tulane University The Fascinating World of Flexible Filaments in Fluid
Previous Lectures
	March 30, 2023 Bryna Kra Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor Northwestern University The Legacy of Erdős in Dynamics
	April 14, 2022 Alan Hastings Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of California at Davis Spatial Ecological Dynamics: Insights from Statistical Physics
	February 27, 2020 Tomasz Mrowka Professor of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instantons, Knots and Knotted Graphs
	February 28, 2019 Sergey Fomin Robert M. Thrall Collegiate Professor University of Michigan Cluster Transformations
	March 1, 2018 Robert Bryant Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics Duke University From Mechanics, to Algebra, to Geometry:The Notion of Holonomy
	March 2, 2017 Simon A. Levin James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Mathematical Ecology: A Century of Progress, and Challenges for the Next Century
	February 11, 2016 Phillip Griffiths Formerly Director of the Institute for Advanced Study Member of the National Academy of Sciences A Tale of Two MathematiciansIt was the best of times. . . for mathematics
	February 19, 2015 S.R.S. Varadhan Frank J. Gould Professor of Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences What is Entropy?
	February 12, 2014 Dusa McDuff Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics Barnard College, Columbia University Symplectic Embeddings and Continued Fractions
	March 27, 2013 Persi Diaconis Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics Stanford University On Coincidences
	January 17, 2012 Shing-Tung Yau William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Harvard University The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
	March 21, 2011 Richard P. Stanley Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plane Tilings
	February 22, 2010 Richard Schoen Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences Stanford University Spaces of Positive Curvature
	January 26, 2009 Andrei Okounkov Professor of Mathematics Princeton University The Most Random of All Possible Worlds

McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture Series

Most Recent Lecture

Lisa Fauci

The Fascinating World of Flexible Filaments in Fluid

Previous Lectures

Bryna Kra

The Legacy of Erdős in Dynamics

Alan Hastings

Spatial Ecological Dynamics: Insights from Statistical Physics

Tomasz Mrowka

Instantons, Knots and Knotted Graphs

Sergey Fomin

Cluster Transformations

Robert Bryant

From Mechanics, to Algebra, to Geometry:The Notion of Holonomy

Simon A. Levin

Mathematical Ecology:
A Century of Progress, and Challenges for the Next Century

Phillip Griffiths

A Tale of Two MathematiciansIt was the best of times. . . for mathematics

S.R.S. Varadhan

What is Entropy?

Dusa McDuff

Symplectic Embeddings and Continued Fractions

Persi Diaconis

On Coincidences

Shing-Tung Yau

The Shape of Inner Space:
String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

Richard P. Stanley

Plane Tilings

Richard Schoen

Spaces of Positive Curvature

Andrei Okounkov

The Most Random of All Possible Worlds

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