Clanton Lecture Series

On Thursday, March 23, 2023,  the Department of Mathematics will welcome Dr. Alex V. Kontorovich as our 2022-23 Clanton Visiting Mathematician speaker.  There will be an afternoon colloquium talk and also a general audience talk in the evening.

Alex has degrees from Princeton (B.A.) and Colombia (Ph.D.), and is currently Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers. He was also recently the Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics. His research interests include Analytic Number Theory; Harmonic Analysis; Automorphic Forms, Representations, and L-functions; Hyperbolic Geometry and Spectral Theory.

 

Afternoon Reception

3:00 p.m., Riley Hall 205

 

Afternoon Colloquium Talk

4:00 p.m.
Johns Hall 101

Talk title and abstract to be announced.

 

Evening Presentation

7:30 p.m.
Shaw Hall, Younts Conference Center

Talk title and abstract to be announced.

 

 

Previous Clanton Speakers

  • 2021-2022:   Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College
  • 2019-2020:   Daniel Litt, University of Georgia
  • 2018-2019:   Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2017-2018:   Jill C. Pipher, Brown University
  • 2016-2017:   William Trotter, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2015-2016:   Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2014-2015:   Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
  • 2013-2014:   Avi Wigderson, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
  • 2012-2013:    Ken Ono, Emory University
  • 2011-2012:    William J. Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2010-2011:    J. Michael Steele, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2009-2010:   Donald Saari, University of California, Irvine
  • 2008-2009:   Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago
  • 2007-2008:   Colin Clark, University of British Columbia
  • 2006-2007:   Barry Mazur, Harvard University
  • 2005-2006:   Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College
  • 2003-2004:  Jeffrey Weeks, Mathematician and author of The Shape of Space
  • 2002-2003:   Frank Morgan, Williams College
  • 2001-2002:    George Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2000-2001:    Kenneth Ribet, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1999-2000:   Jonathan Borwein, Simon Fraser University
  • 1998-1999:    Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College
  • 1997-1998:    Mary Ellen Rudin, University of Wisconsin
  • 1996-1997:    László Lovász, Yale University
  • 1995-1996:   Frederick Mosteller, Harvard University
  • 1994-1995:    Saunders MacLane, University of Chicago
  • 1993-1994:    Persi Diaconis, Harvard University
  • 1992-1993:    John H. Conway, Princeton University
  • 1991-1992:     Paul Halmos, Santa Clara University
  • 1990-1991:     Bradley Efron, Stanford University
  • 1989-1990:    Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia
  • 1988-1999:    Heinz-Otto Peitgen, University of Bremen
  • 1987-1988:    Ronald Graham, AT&T Bell Laboratories