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The Kemeny Lectures

The Annual Kemeny Lectures (A brief history of John G. Kemeny)
2014	Hendrik Lenstra	April 16: Escher and the Droste effect   QuickTime, --> WebM April 17: Sums of digits and divisibility April 18: Missing values of polynomial maps over finite fields
2013	Jesus De Loera	March 26: The Convex Geometry of Tables and Arrays March 28: Algebraic and Geometric ideas in the theory of linear optimization March 28: My Favorite Open Problems about Polyhedra
2012	Bernd Sturmfels	May 1: Tropical Mathematics May 2: Convex Algebraic Geometry May 3: The Central Curve in Linear Programming
2011	Vaughan Jones	April 11: The Onset of Wildness April 11: Flatland, a great place to do algebra  QuickTime, WebM April 12: Random matrices, von Neumann algebras and (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theories
2010	Persi Diaconis	February 22: The Search For Randomness February 23: Adding Numbers, Shuffling Cards and an Amazing Matrix February 24: On Adding a List of Numbers (and other one dependent determinantal processes)
2009	Georgia Benkart	April 21: Representations of Groups of Matrices - Yeah Schur April 22: Determinants in Wonderland.  RealMedia April 23: Travels to Hyperbolic Space Starting from an sl(2) Base
2008	Daniel Goldston	April 23: Primes and Twin Primes.  QuickTime, WebM April 24: Small Gaps Between Primes April 24: Problems Related to Primes
2007	Richard Stanley	May 3: Increasing and decreasing subsequences May 3: A Survey of Plane Tilings.  RealMedia May 4: Alternating permutations
2006	Alan Weinstein	April 27: Groupoids as generalized equivalence relations April 27: Symmetry groupoids of crystals and networks  QuickTime, WebM April 28: The structure of proper groupoids
2005	Andrew Granville	April 21: An introduction to additive combinatorics April 21: Prime Number Races April 22: Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov theorem
2004	Paul Baum	April 14: Mathematical Impossibilities April 15: The Dirac Operator April 16: K-theory for Group C*-Algebras
2003	Robert Bryant	May 12: Geometry Old and New: From Euclid to String Theory May 13: New Zoll metrics on the 2-sphere May 15: Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature
2001	John Roe	April 30: The Art Of Coarse Mathematics May 1: Homology Via Coarse Geometry May 2: On Being Amenable
2000	Andrew Odlyzko	May 1: Primes: What we do and don't know.  RealMedia May 2: Zeros of the Riemann zeta function: Conjectures and computations May 3: Polynomials with restricted coefficients: results and open problems.  RealMedia
1999	Jeffrey Weeks	May 5: The Shape of Space.  RealMedia May 6: Curvature and the Universe.  RealMedia May 7: Topological Questions in Cosmology.  RealMedia
1998	Shiing-Shen Chern
1997	Harold Stark	April 30: A Non-Euclidean Big Bang May 1: L-functions and Class Fields May 2: Zeta Functions of Graphs and Quadratic Covers
1996	Peter Sarnak	April 23: The distribution of prime numbers April 24: The spectral nature of the zeros of zeta functions April 25: Spectra of Riemannian manifolds
1995	David Griffeath	April 19: Cellular Automata as Toy Universes April 20: The Mathematics of Excitable Cellular Automata April 21: The Mathematics of Threshold Growth