Math Matters lectures feature distinguished mathematicians and scientists who are also superb expositors able to illuminate the role mathematics is playing in understanding our world and shaping our lives. The lectures are aimed at a broad audience.

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• Ivar Ekeland (Mathematics and Economics, University of British Columbia), The best of all possible worlds: the idea of optimization
  Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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• Alfio Quarteroni (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy), Mathematical modeling in medicine, sports, and the environment
  Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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• Jean Bergeron (Film Writer and Director), U.S. premier screening of the film "Achieving the Unachievable"
  Thursday, November 1, 2007
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• Bernd Sturmfels (Mathematics, University of California - Berkeley), Algebra, statistics, computation, and biology
  Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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• Jennifer Tour Chayes (Theory Group, Microsoft Research), Epidemics in Technological and Social Networks: The Downside of Six Degrees of Separation, Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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• Martin Golubitsky (Mathematics, University of Houston), Patterns Patterns Everywhere, Wednesday, March 7, 2007
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• Christopher J. Budd (Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath), Making Sense of a Complex World, Thursday, January 18, 2007
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• Margaret H. Wright (Computer Science, New York University), How Hard Can It Be? Thursday, November 2, 2006
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• Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) Mathematics and Magic Tricks, April 19, 2006
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• Arlie O. Petters (Duke University), Gravity's Cosmic Shadows: A Mathematical Unveiling, March 22, 2006
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• Daniel Rockmore, (Dartmouth College), Artful Mathematics, February 8, 2006
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• Philip Holmes (Princeton University), Does Math Matter to Brain Matter? December 8, 2005 (includes video/lecture materials)
• Thomas C. Hales (University of Pittsburgh), Computers and the Future of Mathematical Proof, March 30, 2005
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• David Baraff (Pixar Animation Studios), Math Behind the Curtains: Dynamic Simulation at Pixar Animation Studios, February 9, 2005
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• James D. Murray (University of Oxford and University of Washington), The Marriage Equation: A practical theory for predicting divorce and a scientifically-based marital therapy, November 18, 2004
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• Professor Sir Roger Penrose, FRS OM (University of Oxford), Does Mathematics Rule the World?, October 5, 2004
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• Stephen A. Ross (MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Behavioral Finance - The Closed End Fund Puzzle, Room 100 Smith Hall, March 30, 2004
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• Steven H. Strogatz (Cornell University), Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, January 7, 2004
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• Richard A. Tapia (Rice University), Math at Top Speed: Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore, November 20, 2003
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• Leroy Hood (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington), After the Human Genome Project: Systems Biology and Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine, September 15, 2003
  Lecture Video (flv)    Lecture(Audio)
• Charles S. Peskin (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, June 5, 2003, Secrets of the Heart Revealed - by Mathematics and Computer Simulation
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• Eugene Myers (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley) Advances in Whole Genome Sequencing, May 6, 2003
• William J. Cook (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) The Traveling Salesman Problem, October 16, 2002
  Lecture 58 mins. Lecture Video (flv)|RealAudio(SureStream)
• Bruce Schneier (CTO Counterpane Systems) Natural Laws of Digital Content: the Folly of Copy Protection on the Internet, February 12, 2001
  Slides (pdf) Audio MP3    24k (15.5mb)    64k (41mb)    128k (82mb)    88 minutes. RealAudio (SureStream)
• John Chadam (University of Pittsburgh) Expository Lectures on Mathematical Finance, May 15-17, 2000
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• Benoit Mandelbrot (Robinson Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University) Fractals/Multifractals in Finance, the Internet and other "Wild" Aspects of Man's Work, October 22, 1999
  78 minutes. RealAudio (80 kbps)    RealAudio (28.8 kbps)
• Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Mathematics & AIDS: How Mathematics Coupled with Experiment Revealed the Nature of HIV Infection, November 11, 1998. Perelson presented an overview of his work over the past 4 years in developing dynamic models of HIV infection in single patients. The talk was a broad stroke overview suitable for newcomers to the field and is meant as an introduction to the IMA Workshop on "Dynamics and Control of AIDS." Recent results were were also mentioned.
• Ian Stewart (University of Warwick, Coventry, England) Life's Other Secret, presented by the IMA and the Institute of Technology, April 23, 1998