Everett Pitcher Lecture Series

The Pitcher lectures are held in honor of Everett Pitcher, who served in Lehigh's Department of Mathematics from 1938 until 1978, when he retired as Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. He was secretary of the American Mathematical Society from 1967 until 1988.


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      Spring 2009 Everett Pitcher Lectures
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                 Speaker: Maria Chudnovsky
                                Associate Professor
                                Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
                                Columbia University

Announcement with Abstracts               
                                    
Lecture For General  Audience
Monday, March 16, 7:30 pm, Sinclair Auditorium 

   
    The Perfect Graphs - Structure and Recongition

 
Second Lecture
      Excluding induced subgroups

Date:  Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Place & Time:  4:10 pm, Sinclair Auditorium 


Third Lecture
      Packing seagulls in graphs with no stable set of size three

Date:  Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Place & Time:  4:10 pm, Sinclair Auditorium


Maria Chudnovsky is currently an associate professor at Columbia University. Before that she was Veblen  Research Instructor at Princeton University and the IAS, and then an associate professor at Princeton. Until April 2008 she was a Clay Mathematics Institute research fellow. Recently, she was a part of a team of four researchers that proved the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem

Past talks are listed below.                                                                               Click here to go back to the Math Department homepage.
 
Month,Year
Speaker
Title of the Talk
April, 1983 R. Bott Some Applications of Equivariant DeRahm Theory
December 1983 J.-P. Serre Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties 
March, 1985  J. Moser Stability of Hamiltonian Systems 
October, 1985 M. Atiyah The Mystery of Four Dimensions 
April, 1987 J. Tate Elliptic Curves and Modular Symbols 
October, 1987 J. Milnor Iterated Polynomial Maps
April, 1989 F. John Non-linear Wave Equations, Formation of Singularities
March, 1990 S. Smale Theory of Computation. On the Problem "P != NP" for the Real and Complex Numbers 
November, 1990 J. Tits Monster and Moonshine: A Survey 
April, 1992 J. Conway Geometry and Numbers 
April, 1993 R. Graham Quasi-randomness and Combinatorics
October, 1993 P. Hall Statistical Estimation of Fractal Dimension
February, 1994 M. Talagrand Isoperimetric Inequalities and Concetration of Measure in Product Spaces 
November, 1994 M. Hopkins Modular Forms and Stable Homotopy 
April, 1996 C. Pomerance Primes: a computational approach 
March, 1997 B. Mandelbrot Fractals in Mathematics and the Sciences
April, 1998 C. Morawetz Revisiting the Wave Equation
April, 1999 H.S. Wilf The Recursive Structure of Combinatorial Families
March, 2001 I. M. Singer Index Theory in Mathematics and Physics
November, 2001 P. Shor  Quantum Information and Computation
July, 2002  J. Birman Recognizing the Unknot
April, 2003 J. Arthur Automorphic Forms and the Trace Formula 
March 2005
 Peter Sarnak
 Arithmetic and analysis on locally symmetric spaces
March 2006
 Sir Roger Penrose
 Before the Big Bang and Twistor Theory
April 2007
 George E. Andrews
 The Indian Genius, Ramanujan: His Life and the Excitement of His Mathematics
March 2008
 Persi Diaconis
 The Search for Randomness

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