ELISHA NETANYAHU MEMORIAL LECTURES
The Elisha Netanyahu Memorial Lecture Series was
established to honor the memory of the
mathematician Elisha Netanyahu (1912-1986),
who served the
Technion from 1946 until his retirement in 1980.
The following is the list of distinguished mathematicians who have presented
lectures in this series:
- Professor Robert J Aumann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Strategic Information Theory: Repeated Games with Incomplete
Information
- Professor Richard V. Kadison, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Re-examining the Pythagorean Theorem - a Functional
Analyst's View
- Professor Samuel Karlin, Stanford university
Title: The Mathematics of Bioinformatics
- Professor Don Zagier, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik.
Title: From Modular Forms to Cohomology
- Professor David Kazhdan, The Hebrew University, Harvard
University,
MacArthur fellow.
Title: Theory of representations and algebraic geometry
- Professor Andrew R. Casson, Yale University,
Recipient of the Veblen Prize.
Title: Some Mysteries of Low-Dimensional Topology
- Professor Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute of Mathematics,
Recipient of the Crafoord Prize.
Title: Estimates for Composite Material
- Professor Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Recipient of the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology.
Title: Fractal Geometry, Dimension, and Information Theory
- Professor Seppo Rickman, University of Helsinki.
Title: Geometric Decomposition Spaces and Maps of Bounded Length Distortion
- Professor Charles Fefferman, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton,
Recipient of the Fields Medal.
Title: Conformal Invariants in N Dimensions
- Professor Enrico Bombieri, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
Recipient of the Fields Medal.
Title: Is Number Theory as Easy as ABC?
- Professor Joan Birman, Columbia University,
Recipient of a Technion Honorary Doctorate.
Title: What's Happening in Knot Theory?
- Professor Olli Lehto, University of Helsinki,
Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences.
Title: Classical Function Theory and Quasiconformal Mappings
- Professor Michael O. Rabin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard
University,
Recipient of the ACM Turing Award in Computer Science and the Harvey Prize
in Science and Technology.
Title: Computational Aspects of Classical Number-Theoretic Theorems
- Professor Fredrick W. Gehring, University of Michigan.
Title: Isolation in Discrete Mobius Groups
- Professor Walter K. Hayman, FRS, University of York.
Title: The Conformal Mapping of Long Quadrilaterals and Thick Annuli.
- Professor Lars V. Ahlfors, Harvard University,
Recipient of the Fields Medal and the Wolf Foundation Prize.
Title: Power Series in a Jordan Algebra.
- Professor Beno Eckmann, ETH, Zurich,
Recipient of a Technion Honorary Doctorate.
Title: The Euler Characteristic—Theme and Variations
- Professor Lipman Bers, Columbia University.
Title: Introduction to Quasiconformal Mappings and Their Applications.
- Professor Paul Erdos, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Recipient of the Wolf Foundation Prize and a Technion Honorary Doctorate.
Title: Interpolation and Extremal Properties of Polynomials.
