Presidential Lectures

Presidential Lectures are free public colloquia centered on four main themes: Biology, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Neuroscience and Autism Science. These curated, high-level scientific talks feature leading scientists and mathematicians and are intended to foster discourse and drive discovery among the broader NYC-area research community. We invite those interested in the topic to join us for this weekly lecture series.

Upcoming

Oct11

Exploring Many-Body Problems With Arrays of Individual Atoms

Antoine Browaeys, Ph.D.Institut d’Optique
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Lecture
October 11, 2023
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium

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Oct18

Retracing the Evolutionary Steps Toward Symbiosis

Joseph Parker, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Lecture
October 18, 2023
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium

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Oct25

When Reason Produces Monsters While It Is Wide Awake

Camillo De Lellis, Ph.D.Institute for Advanced Study

Lecture
October 25, 2023
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium

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Past

Sep27

Sleep and Memory

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Loren Frank, Ph.D.University of California, San Francisco

Lecture
September 27, 2023

Sep20

On the Nonlinear Stability of Slowly Rotating Kerr Black Holes

Sergiu Klainerman, Ph.D.Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University

Lecture
September 20, 2023

Sep13

Minding Our Microbial Symbionts

Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D.De Logi Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Director, UCLA Goodman-Luskin Center, University of California, Los Angeles

Lecture
September 13, 2023

Sep06

Simulating the World of Atoms, Molecules and Materials Using Quantum Mechanics

Garnet K.-L. Chan, Ph.D.Bren Professor, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Lecture
September 6, 2023
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Jun07

The Pressure to Sleep

Gero Miesenböck, M.D.Waynflete Professor of Physiology Director, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford

Lecture
June 7, 2023

May31

How Do Waves Propagate Randomness?

Andrea R. Nahmod
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Within the international research community, Andrea R. Nahmod is one of the most visible members of UMass Amherst’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. A native of Argentina, she works in nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations, a subfield of pure mathematics, but has also collaborated with applied mathematicians.

“I’m an analyst,” Nahmod says. “I study how to decompose objects in forms we can understand and that give us information about their most relevant features, their structure and patterns.” Using harmonic and nonlinear Fourier analysis, Nahmod applies these decomposition techniques to problems in the material world in order to find solutions and to understand their behavior.
Nahmod was named Professeur Invité at Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, and was a visiting scholar at the Courant Institute, New York University. She was awarded a Radcliffe-Sargent Faull Fellowship at Harvard University and has been twice selected a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Nahmod's research has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation. She delivered an Invited Plenary Address at the American Mathematical Society in 2006 and was keynote speaker at the Tenth New Mexico Analysis conference in 2007, the 16th Riviere-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDE in 2013, and the 33th SEARCDE Conference in 2014. She frequently speaks at major research conferences in the U.S. and overseas, including the Oberwolfach Institute of Mathematics in Germany in 2013, the NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conference in 2013, the Banff International Research Station in Canada in 2014, and the International Conference on Recent Progress and Future Directions at the University of Chicago in 2014.

Education: BS, University of Buenos Aires, 1985; PhD, Yale University, 1991.

Andrea Nahmod, Ph.D.Professor of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Lecture
May 31, 2023
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