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| Stewart S. Cairns Memorial Lectures | ||
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This biennial
lecture series honors the memory of Stewart S. Cairns (1904-1982),
Professor of Mathematics at UIUC from 1948 until his retirement
in 1972. The late Professor Cairns' family established a fund to
endow a series of public lectures by outstanding mathematicians,
in the mathematical areas of geometry and topology that were the
focus of Professor Cairns' work. |
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| Year | Lecturer | Lecture Title |
| 1983 | Dennis
Sullivan Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center |
Dynamics in One Variable - A Rather Complete but Rather Complicated Theory |
| 1985 | Sir
Michael Atiyah Oxford University |
Ideas
from Theoretical Physics Riemannian Four-Dimensional Manifolds Algebraic Surfaces |
| 1985 | John
Milnor Institute for Advanced Study |
Fractals in Dynamical Systems |
| 1986 | Mary
Ellen Rudin University of Wisconsin, Madison |
The Interplay Between Old Fashioned Topology and Set Theory - Or How to Build Really Strange Manifolds |
| 1988 | William
Browder Princeton University |
Finite Transformation Groups |
| 1989 | William
Thurston Princeton University |
Automatic Groups, Conway's Tiling Groups and Self-Similar Tilings |
| 1990 | Andrew
Casson University of California at Berkeley |
3-Dimensional
Topology Plausible and Implausible Approaches to the 3-Dimensional Poincare Conjecture |
| 1991 | John
R. Stallings University of California at Berkeley |
Group
Triangles of Non-Positive Curvature Negatively Curved Groups and Related Conceptors Group Theoretic Ideas Related to Simple Connectedness at Infinity for 3 Manifolds |
| 1992 | John
Morgan Columbia University |
Gauge
Theory and the Topology of 4-Manifolds: Introduction and Overview Connections with Algebraic Geometry A Meyer-Vietoris Principal for Self-Dual Connections and Its Applications |
| 1994 | Raoul
Bott Harvard University |
Invariants
of Manifolds: Remembrance of Things Past On the Relations between Mathematics and Physics Rational Homotopy and the Integral Geometry of Knots |
| 1996 | Robert
MacPherson Institute for Advanced Study |
Topology of Spaces with Torus Actions |
| 1999 | William
Fulton University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Eigenvalues, Invariant Factors, Highest Weights, and Schubert Calculus |
| 2000 | Frank
Quinn Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
Why
is the Fourth Dimension So Weird?: "High" and "Low" Collide in Dimension 4 Topological 4-Manifolds: Wild Techniques, Tame Results Smooth 4-Manifolds: Physics Shows the Way, Sort Of |
| 2002 | Shmuel
Weinberger University of Chicago |
Towards a Calculus of Symmetry |
| 2004 | Dusa
McDuff SUNY at Stony Brook |
The
Topology of Symplectomorphism Groups Ono's Proof of the Flux Conjecture Comparing Toric and Symplectic Automorphism Groups |
| 2006 | Bruce
Kleiner Yale University |
Perelman's
work on Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture The asymptotic geometry of negatively curved spaces: uniformization, geometrization, and rigidity |
| Department
of Mathematics 273 Altgeld Hall, MC-382 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801 USA Telephone: (217) 333-3350 Fax: (217) 333-9576 Email: office@math.uiuc.edu |
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