Special Events

• Public Lecture: "Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes" by Kerry Emanuel (reception to follow at IPAM). February 12, 2007.
• Public Lecture: "How Topology Will Save Moore's Law: Quantum Computation via Exotic States of Matter" by Michael Freedman (reception to follow at IPAM). February 28, 2007.
• Public Lecture: "The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science and Art," presented by Benoit Mandelbrot (reception to follow at IPAM). April 16, 2007.
• Public Lecture: "Virtual Surgery: Computational Methods and Simulations for Facial Reconstructions" by Dr. Court Cutting (reception to follow at IPAM). January 9, 2008.
• Public Lecture: "From the Lung to the Cells' Powerhouses: Symmorphosis in the Design of the Pathway for Oxygen" by Ewald Weibel . May 21, 2008.
• Public Lecture: "The Internets We Did Not Build" by David Clark. November 3, 2008.
• Public Lecture: "Homogeneous Dynamics and Number Theory" by Gregory Margulis. January 13, 2009.
• Public Lecture: "Climate Change and the Mathematics of Sea Ice" by Kenneth Golden. April 29, 2009.
• Public Lecture: "The Combinatorics of Voting Paradoxes" by Noga Alon. October 5, 2009.
• Public Lecture: "On Mean Field Games," by Pierre-Louis Lions. January 5, 2010.
• Public Lecture: "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics" by David Gross. February 22, 2010.
• IPAM Public Lecture: "Climatic Impact of Volcanos: From Eyjafjallajökull to Supervolcanoes" by Ulrike Neimeier and Stefan Lorenz. April 21, 2010.
• Public Lecture: "Global Warming: Coming Ready or Not" by Kevin Trenberth. May 5, 2010.
• IPAM 10th Anniversary Lecture: "“IPAM: Historical, UCLA, NSF and Global Perspectives” by Tony Chan. November 2, 2010.
• IPAM 10th Anniversary Lecture: “Mathematics for Air Traffic Control and Other Hybrid Systems” by Claire Tomlin. November 3, 2010.
• IPAM Public Lecture: "The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions" by S. T. Yau. January 14, 2011.
• Public Lecture: "The Science of Cooking" by Michael Brenner. October 25, 2011.
• IPAM Public Lecture: "Interpreting Personal Genomes: Promises and Potential Pitfalls" by Carlos D. Bustamante. November 29, 2011.
• IPAM Public Lecture: "The National Ignition Facility: Pathway to Fusion Ignition, Frontier Science and Clean Energy" by Ed Moses. April 18, 2012.
• Green Family Lecture Series: "A World Predominately Powered by Solar and Wind Energy?" by Walter Kohn. May 29, 2012.
• Green Family Lecture Series: "Electronic Structure of Matter: Wave Functions and Density Functionals" by Walter Kohn. May 30, 2012.
• Green Family Lecture Series: “A Physicist’s Approach to Macular Degeneration,” by Walter Kohn. May 31, 2012.
• Public Lecture: "Toward Brain Computer Interfacing" by Klaus Robert Mueller. March 4, 2013.
• ¿Así Que Quieres Ser un Matemático? A Panel Discussion with Latino/a Mathematicians. April 22, 2013.