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2025

  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Fall 2025

November 12, 2025
Haruzo Hida (UCLA)
“Adjoint L-value and the Tate conjecture”
Flyer

  • GROW Conference, Fall 2025

September 25-27, 2025
Conference overview

  • The Lars Tyge Nielsen Memorial Conference, Spring 2025

April 25, 2025
Conference Overview | Flyer

  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2025

April 16 & 17, 2025
Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)
First Lecture: “45 Years of Calderon’s Problem”
Second Lecture: “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Ritt Lectures Flyer

  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Spring 2025

Tuesdays beginning January 21st
Rama Cont (Princeton University)
“Rough Calculus”
Minerva Lectures Flyer | Lecture Series Info Sheet | Slides

2024

  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Fall 2024

October 2, 2024
Dennis Gaitsgory (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
“On the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture”
Flyer

  • GROW Conference, Fall 2024

September 27-29, 2024
Conference overview

  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2024

Søren Galatius (University of Copenhagen)
“Moduli spaces of high dimensional manifolds”
Lectures overview | Flyer

  • Special Lecture Series, Spring 2024

Professor Nikita Nekrasov (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics)”
“The Count of Instantons””
Flyer | Notes | Lecture notes

  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2024

February 15 & 16, 2024
Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook)
First Lecture: “On compact minimal surfaces in S^3”
Second Lecture: “Nonlinear PDE’s and Potential Theories”
Flyer | Slides for Lecture 1 & Lecture 2 | Lecture Recordings

  • Universality and Integrability in KPZ

March 11-15, 2024
Scientific Organizers: Ivan Corwin (Columbia), Daniel Remenik (Universidad de Chile)
Local Organizers: Jeanne Boursier (Columbia), Evan Sorensen (Columbia)
https://sites.google.com/view/universalityintegrabilityinkpz

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2023

  • Free Boundary Problems: Lecture Series and Recent Advances in Theory and Applications Conference, Spring 2023

Tuesday, May 30 – June 2, 2023
Organizers: Daniela De Silva, Qiang Du, Chen-Chih Lai, Kui Ren, Ovidiu Savin, James Scott, and Michael Weinstein
Conference website

  • Geometric Topology in New York Conference, Spring 2023

Friday, June 2 – June 4, 2023
Organizers: Daniele Alessandrini, Jason Behrstock, Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman, and Francesco Lin
Conference website

  • Annual Columbia-Princeton Probability Day, Spring 2023

Friday, April 28, 2023

  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2023

Monday, April 17 and Friday, April 21, 2023
Camillo De Lellis (Institute for Advanced Study)
“Area-minimizing integral currents: singularities and structure”
Joseph Fels Ritt Lecture Flyer

  • Sonya Kovalevsky Day, Fall 2023

Friday, October 20, 2023
Organizers: Ivan Corwin, Elena Giorgi, Milind Hedge, Francesco Lin, and Nick Wasserman
SK Day Information

  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Fall 2023

Wednesdays beginning September 6, 2023
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University)
“Columbia Lectures on the Stability of Kerr”
Minerva Lectures Flyer | Notes I | Notes II | Notes III

  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2023

Laurent Fargues (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris)
“Some new geometric structures in the Langlands program”
Flyer | Notes

  • Special Lecture Series

Nikita Nekrasov (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics)
“The Count of Instantons”
Flyer | Notes | Lecture notes: Not split per lecture will be updated as course continues

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2022

  • Northeast Probability Seminar
    • November 17-18, 2022
      Website
      Organizers: Ivan Corwin, Milind Hegde
  • Algebraic Geometry, Mathematical Physics, and Solitons “A conference in honor of Professor Igor Krichever”, Fall 2022
    • October 7-9, 2022
      Conference Website
      Organizers: Anton Dzhamay, Robert Friedman, Samuel Grushevsky and Andrei Okounkov.
  • Reflections on Geometry: 3-Manifolds, Groups and Singularities “A Conference in Honor of Walter Neumann”, Summer 2022
    • June 7-10, 2022
      Conference Website
      Organizers: Mohammed Abouzaid (Columbia), Jason Behrstock (CUNY), Abhijit Champanerkar (CUNY), Ilya Kofman (CUNY), and Joseph Maher (CUNY)
  • Deformations of Geometric Structures in Current Mathematics: “A Celebration of the works of Masatake Kuranishi“, Spring 2022
    • May 3-6, 2022
      Conference Website
      Organizers: Robert Friedman, Ioannis Karatzas, Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, John Morgan, and Duong Phong
  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2022
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2022
    • Hélène Esnault (Freie Universität Berlin)
      “Lectures on local systems in algebraic geometry-arithmetic geometry”
      Lecture Notes

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2020

2019

  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2019
    • October 23 – 24, 2019
      Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge University)
      “Lecture 1: Variational Theory of Minimal Hypersurfaces of Riemannian Manifolds”
      “Lecture 2: Regularity of CMC and Prescribed-mean-curvature Hypersurfaces”
      Joseph Fels Ritt Lecture Flyer
  • Gallagher Memorial Conference, Fall 2019
  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Fall 2019
    • September 27th, October 4th and 11th
      Makiko Sasada (University of Tokyo)
      “The Box-ball System, Discrete Integrable Systems and Generalized Pitman’s Transform”
      Minerva Lecture Flyer
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2019
    • May 8 – 9, 2019
      Laure Saint Raymond (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
      “Lecture 1: Disorder Increases Almost Surely”
      “Lecture 2: The Structure of Correlations”
      Joseph Fels Ritt Lecture Flyer
  • Kolchin Lecture, Spring 2019
    • Wednesday, April 3, 2019
      Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University & University of Copenhagen)
      “Higher Algebra & Arithmetic”
      Kolchin Lecture Flyer
  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Spring 2019
    • Bálint Virág (University of Toronto)
      “Random Interfaces, Geodesics and the Directed Landscape”
      Friday, March 29, 2019
      Minerva Lecture Flyer
  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Spring 2019
    • Alan Hammond (U.C. Berkeley)
      “Geodesic Trees & Brownian Watermelons: Universality in Models of Local Random Growth”
      Thursday, February 28, 2019
      Minerva Lecture Flyer

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2018

  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2018
  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Fall 2018
    • Walter Schachermayer (University of Vienna)
      “Asymptotic Theory of Transaction Costs”
      Monday, September 10, 2018
      Conference flyer:
      Minerva Lecture Flyer
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2018
    • Eugenia Malinnikova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
      “An improvement of Liouville’s theorem for discrete harmonic functions”
      Wednesday, October 31 and Thursday, November 1, 2018
      Ritt Lecture Flyer
  • Transport & Localization in Random Media: Theory & Applications
    • Tuesday, May 1-3, 2018
      Conference Website:
  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Spring 2018
    • Itai Benjamini (Weizmann)
      “I will review the state of the art in percolation on groups and related topics”
      Wednesday, April 18 and Thursday, April 19, 2018
      Conference flyer:
      Minerva Lecture Flyer
  • Kolchin Lecture, Spring 2018
    • Hugh Woodin (Harvard University)
      “Ultimate L”
      Wednesday, April 18, 2018
      Conference flyer:Kolchin Lecture Flyer
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2018
    • Michael Eichmair (University of Vienna)
      “Scalar Curvature & Isoperimetry in the Large”
      Tuesday, March 20, 2018 & Thursday, March 22, 2018

2017

  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2017
    • Dennis Gaitsgory (Harvard University)
      “The Tamagawa number formula over function fields”
      February 17, 2017
  • SLE, GFF and LQG in NYC
  • Joseph Fell Ritt Lectures, Spring 2017
    • William Minicozzi (MIT)
      “Level set method for motion by mean curvature”
      March 27 & 28, 2017

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2016

  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2016
    •  Denis Auroux (UC Berkeley)
      “Fukaya categories and mirror symmetry”
      Video lectures
  • Joseph Fell Ritt Lectures, Fall 2016
    • Zhiwei Yun (Yale University)
      “Geometry in orbital integrals and beyond”
      Thursday, December 15 and Friday, December 16, 2016
  • Minerva Foundation Lectures, Fall 2016
    • Rene Carmona (Princeton)
      “Introduction to Mean Field Games and the Two Pronged Probabilistic Approach ”
      October 20-28, 2016
    • Robin Pemantle (University of Pennsylvania)
      “Polynomials, their coefficients, and the locations of their zeros: applications to probability, combinatorics and computer science”
      November 2-16, 2016
    • Nicolai Reshetikhim (UC Berkeley)
      “Limit shapes in integrable models in statistical mechanics”
      December 5-9, 2016
  • Joseph Fells Ritt Lectures, Spring 2016
    • Umberto Zannier (Scuola Normale Superiore)
      “Integration in finite terms for families of algebraic differentials”
      Tuesday, May 3 and Wednesday, May 4, 2016
  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2016
    • Raphaël Rouquier (University of California, Los Angeles)
      “Algebra in the fourth dimension”
      Tuesday, April 26, 2016
  • Calculus Of Variations And Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
  • Topological and Quantitative Aspects of Symplectic Manifolds; A Conference In Honor Of Dusa Mcduff’s 70th Birthday
  • Columbia-Princeton Probability Day, Spring 2016
    • April 8, 2016
      Speakers:

      • Guillaume Barraquand (Columbia)
      • Rick Kenyon (Brown)
      • Joel Lebowitz (Rutgers)
      • Hao Shen (Columbia)
      • Allan Sly (Berkeley)
      • Peter Winkler (Dartmouth)
  • Special Lecture Series: “Introduction to the mathematical theory of black holes”
    • Sergiu Klainerman (Columbia University and Princeton University)
      Room Math 507, Wednesdays
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures – Spring 2016
    • Prof. Roman Bezrukavnikov (MIT)
      “Geometric categorification in representation theory“

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2015

  •  Minerva Foundation Lectures
    • Fabio Toninelli (Lyon)
      “Height fluctuations in interacting dimers”
      April 20 and April 22, 4:10-6pm, 417 Math, & April 24, 12noon-1pm, 520 Math
    • Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich)
      “Critical phenomena within (random) planar carpets”
      April 8, 4:10-6pm, 417 Math, & April 9, 5:40-7pm, 520 Math
      “A simple graph-valued Markov processes and renormalization”
      April 10, 11am-12noon, 520 Math
    • Philippe Di Francesco (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
      “Integrable Combinatorics”
      March 9, 5:30-7:00pm, 507 Math [w/ the Informal Math-Physics seminar]
      March 10, 5:30-7:00pm, 622 Math
      March 11, 4:10-6pm, 417 Math
      Slides:Lecture 1 ; Lecture 3
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2015
    • Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University)
      “How likely is it for an integer polynomial to take a square value?”
      Thursday, March 26, 2015
  • Ellis R Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2015
    • Christopher Hacon (University of Utah)
      “Which Powers Of A Holomorphic Function Are Integrable?”
      February 19, 2015
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures – Spring 2015
    • Luis A. Caffarelli  (University of Texas)
      “Future Directions in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations”

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2014

  • Minerva Foundation Research Lectures, Spring 2014
    • Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)
      “Regularity Structures”
      February 24 – 28, 2014
    • Alexei Borodin (MIT)
      “Macdonald processes”
      April 21, 2014 & April 24, 2014
      “Gaussian Free Field in beta ensembles and random surfaces”
      April 25, 2014
  • Columbia-Princeton Probability Day 2014
    • Martin Barlow (U. British Columbia)
      Thierry Bodineau (Ecole Polytechnique)
      Steve Lalley (U. Chicago)
      Subhro Ghosh (Princeton University)
      Clement Hongler (Columbia University)
      Jason Miller (MIT)Friday, April 11, 2014
      Northwest Corner Building – Room 501
  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2014
    • Melvin Hochster (U. Michigan)
      “Bounding syzygies and the nature of subrings of polynomial rings”
      Thursday, May 1, 2014
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures – Fall 2014
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2014
    • Fernando Codá Marques (IMPA)
      “Min-max minimal surfaces and applications”
      April 28, 2014 & April 29, 2014
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2014
    • Alain-Sol Sznitman (ETH, Zurich)
      “Disconnection, interlacements, and the Gaussian free field”
      December 15 & 16

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2013

  • Minerva Foundation Research Lectures, Spring 2013
    • Bruno Bouchard (ENSAE-Paris Tech; University of Paris-Dauphine)
      “Stochastic Target Problems and Applications in Finance”
      February 2013
    • Michel Ledoux (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France)
      “Concentration inequalities”
      March 26/28 & April 1/2
  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture
    • Burt Totaro (UCLA)
      “The Hodge Conjecture: history and Recent Progress“
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2013
    • Jonathan Pila (University of Oxford)
      “Functional transcendence and atypical intersections”
      April 29 & April 30, 2013
  • Analysis, Complex Geometry, and Mathematical Physics: A Conference in Honor of Duong H. Phong
    May 7 – 11, 2013
    *Conference Information*
  • Geometric Topology in New York (GTiNY)
    Location: Columbia University – Mathematics Building, Room 312
    Monday, August 12, 2013 – Friday, August 16, 2013
    *Conference Information*
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures – Fall 2013

2012

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2011

2010

2009

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2008

  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2008
    • Constantin Teleman (Berkeley)
      “Representations of Groups Over the Category of Vector Spaces“
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2008
    • David Gabai (Princeton)
      “Volumes of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Heegard Splittings of 3-manifolds“
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2008
    • Gerhard Huisken (Potsdam)
      “Inverse Mean Curvature Flow and Isoperimetric inequalities“
  • Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2008
    • Michel Emery (Strasbourg)
      “Five Lectures on Manifold-valued Semimartingales“
  • Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2008
    • Shige Peng (Sandong)
      “Coherent and Convex Risk Measures, and the Related Time-Consistent Nonlinear Expectations“
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2008
    • Charles Fefferman (Princeton)
      “Whitney Extension Problems and Interpolation“
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2008
    • Michael Harris (Jussieu)
      “Arithmetic Automorphic Forms on Unitary Groups and Related Galois Representations“
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2008
    • Frans Oort (Utrecht)
      “Moduli of Abelian Varieties“

2007

  • Ellis R. Kolchin Memorial Lecture, Spring 2007
    • Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Spring 2007
    • Joseph Harris (Harvard University)
  • Joseph Fels Ritt Lectures, Fall 2007
    • David Vogan
      “Geometry and Representations of Reductive Groups“
  • Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Spring 2007
    • William Sudderth (University of Minnesota)
      “Stochastic Dynamic Programming“
  • Minerva Research Foundation Lectures, Fall 2007
    • Alison Etheridge (Oxford)
      “Some mathematical models from population genetics“
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Spring 2007
    • William Fulton (University of Michigan, visiting Columbia)
      “Equivariant Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry“
  • Samuel Eilenberg Lectures, Fall 2007
    • Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford)
      “Symplectic topology of affine complex manifolds“
  • Conference in honor of Dorian Goldfeld’s 60th birthday, May 18-23, 2007 (Organizers: Jeffrey Hoffstein, Stephen Kudla, Ken Ono, Peter Sarnak and Shouwu Zhang). Conference photos*
    *Photos copyright J. Mozzochi, Princeton N.J

2006

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