Essén Lectures
These lectures are presented by eminent experts and are aimed at a general audience of PhD students. Doctoral students who pass the assignments will receive 3 credits. The lecture series is named after Professor Matts Essén (1932-2003), who worked at Uppsala University until his retirement in 1997.
Upcoming Essén Lectures
Previous Essén Lectures:
- 2024 Heather Macbeth (Fordham), "Computer formalization and a theorem about Gromov hyperbolicity"
- 2023 Tuomas Hytönen (Helsingfors) Weighted extrapolation, old and new
- 2020-2022 Inga Essén-föreläsningar på grund av covid-19
- 2019 Hubert Bray (Duke) Geometry, Black Holes, and Dark Matter: An Introduction
- 2018 Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia) Stochastic finance
- 2017 Jacob Rasmussen (Cambridge) Knot polynomials and knot homologies
- 2016 Christian Krattenthaler (Wien) The art of bijection
- 2015 Wilhelm Schlag (Chicago) An introduction to nonlinear wave equation
- 2014 Francois Baccelli (Austin) Stochastic geometry
- 2013 Alexander Kleshchev (Oregon) The symmetric group: its combinatorics, representations and applications
- 2012 Jens Marklof (Bristol) Emerging applications of homogeneous dynamics: From discrete mathematics to statistical physics