Mathematics Awareness Month Public Lecture Series

Mathematics Awareness Month is held each year in April. Its goal is to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics. To that end Cornell's Department of Mathematics sponsors an annual public lecture in keeping with each year's theme. To learn more about Mathematics Awareness Month, its history and previous years’ themes, visit www.mathaware.org.

Upcoming Lectures

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Heather Peterson.

Previous Lectures in the Series

• Bobby Kleinberg, Cornell University
  Card Games, Inevitable Patterns, and Computation (2018)
• Alberto A. Martínez, University of Texas at Austin
  Pythagoras and Other Fictions: Do we need them in math? (2017)
• Lionel Levine, Cornell University
  The Future of Prediction (2016) — view a video of this lecture
• David S. Ross, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Careers in Math: What They Are, What They Should Be (2015)
• John Maceli, Ithaca College:
  What is Mathematical Magic? (2014)
• David Shmoys, Cornell University:
  Computational Sustainability: An algorithmic lens for better decision-making (2013)
• Paul Velleman, Cornell University:
  Surfng the Data Deluge (2012)
• John Hubbard, Cornell University:
  The Price of Anarchy (2011)
• Allen Knutson, Cornell University:
  The Mathematics of Juggling (2010)
• Christopher Danforth, University of Vermont, Thomas Pfaff, Ithaca College, Zellman Warhaft, Cornell University, and Mary Lou Zeeman, Cornell University and Bowdoin College:
  Mathematics and Climate (2009)
• Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University:
  What a Difference a Procedure Makes: Scoring Rules in Politics and Sports (2008)
• David Field, Cornell University:
  Unraveling the Knot of our Sensory Experience (2007)
• Graeme Bailey, Cornell University:
  Keeping and Sharing Secrets (2006)
• John Hubbard, Cornell University:
  Order and Chaos in the Solar System (2005)
• Steven Strogatz, Cornell University:
  Sync (2004)
• Warwick Tucker, Cornell University:
  Using a Computer to do Rigorous Mathematics (2002)
• Robert Connelly, Cornell University:
  How to Unfold a Carpenter's Rule in the Plane (2001)
• John Hubbard, Cornell University:
  Chaos, Complication and Control (2000)