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THE 2011 DR. F. RONALD AND HELEN E. BRITTON LECTURES

October 25-28, 2011

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Large Deviations and Related Topics
Tue, Oct 25/11 
HH/104 
Connection to Entropy and some simple examples.
Wed, Oct 26/11 
HH/104 
More complex models. Markov Chains. Principal eigenvalue. Feynman-Kac formula.
Thu, Oct 27/11 
HH/104 
Some infinite or large dimensional problems. Interacting particle systems.
Fri, Oct 28/11 
HH/305 
Random Graphs and Random Matrices

All lectures to be held from 3:30-4:30.

Refreshments daily at 3 p.m. Hamilton Hall Lounge (Room 216) prior to each lecture



Dr. F. Ronald Britton was a former Professor of Mathematics at McMaster, and served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics. After his retirement, he endowed our annual Britton Lectures in memory of his late wife Helen E. Britton. The Britton Lectures have provided the University with a series of distinguished invited speakers since its beginning in 1978.

Past Britton Lecture Series:

2010-2011 Gerhard Huisken 
Max-Planck Institute 
"Analytic and geometric properties of mean curvature flow"
2009-2010 Nick Trefethen 
Oxford University  
Numerical Computation with a Sense of History
2008-2009 Ravi Vakil 
Stanford University 
Moduli spaces in algebraic geometry
2007-2008 Chris Rogers 
University of Cambridge 
Optimal Investment
2006-2007 Donald Dawson 
Carleton 
Stochastic Population Systems and Measure-valued Processes
2005-2006 Toniann Pitassi 
University of Toronto 
Propositional Proof Complexity
2004-2005 David Rand 
University of Warwick 
Mathematical Challenges of Systems Biology
2003-2004 Dr. Haim Brezis 
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie & Rutgers University 
The Ginzburg-Landau Model: An amazing source of new problems and results in Analysis & Topology
2002-2003 John Coates 
Cambridge University 
Iwasawa Algebras and Arithmetic
2001-2002 Robion Kirby 
University of California, Berkeley 
Lectures on Ozsvath and Szabo's Floer-Homology for 3-Manifolds
2000-2001 David Brillinger 
University of California, Berkeley 
Random Process Data Analysis:  Concepts & Examples
1999-2000 Peter Schneider 
Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat 
p-Adic Representation Theory
1998-1999 David C. Brydges 
University of Virginia 
Analysis with Functional Integrals
1997-1998 Neil S. Trudinger 
Australian National University 
Isoperimetric Inequalities & Hessian Operators
1996-1997 Anand Pillay 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Model Theory, Algebra & Number Theory: Some Recent Interactions
1995-1996 R.V. Moody 
University of Alberta 
Meyer Sets and Aperiodic Crystals
1994-1995 Carlos E. Kenig 
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 
Oscillatory Integrals and Non-Linear Dispersive Differential Equations
1993-1994 Ronnie Lee 
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 
Instantons and Three-Manifolds
1992-1993 Joseph J. Kohn 
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 
Pseudodifferential Operators and Several Complex Variables
1991-1992 Ronald L. Graham 
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 
Quasi-Randomness in Combinatorics
1990-1991 Samuel Karlin 
Stanford University, Stanford, California 
Mathematical & Statistical Problems Associated With Protein and DNA Sequences
1989-1990 Michael Aizenman 
Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University 
Adventures in Statistical Mechanics
1988-1989 Richard M. Schoen 
Stanford University, Stanford, California 
Variational Problems for Riemannian Metrics
1987-1988 Victor P. Snaith 
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 
Artin L-Functions
1986-1987 Jerry L. Bona 
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 
Solitons
1985-1986 Frank H. Clarke 
Centre de Recherche Mathematiques, University of Montreal 
Non-Smooth Optimization
1984-1985 C.R. Rao 
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 
Characterizations of Probability Distributions
1983-1984 Dana S. Scott 
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 
Logic and Computing
1982-1983 Marvin Shinbrot 
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. 
The Boltzmann Equation
1981-1982 Louis Nirenberg 
Courant Institute, N.Y.U, New York, NY 
Variational and Topological Methods in Nonlinear Problems
1980-1981 Peter J. Hilton 
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 
Nilpotency as a link between group theory and homotopy theory
1979-1980 Ian N. Sneddon 
University of Glasgow, Scotland 
Integral Transforms and Fractional Integration in Elasticity Theory
1978-1979 Paul L. Butzer 
Technical University of Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany 
The Banach-Steinhaus Theorem. Generalizations of the Shannon Sampling Theorem

 
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