Green Family Lecture Series by Karen Willcox “Scientific Talk”

April 14, 2026 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Karen Willcox “General Audience Talk”

April 13, 2026 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Alessio Figalli “Exploring Stability in Geometric and Functional Inequalities: OT and Beyond””

May 20, 2025 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Alessio Figalli “Optimal Transport: From A to B… and Beyond”

May 19, 2025 Program Category: Public Lectures

Tales of Rotating Thermal Convection: How rapid rotation drives heat transport, creates novel vortex structures, and relates laboratory experiments to the motions of the Earth’s outer core.

January 27, 2025 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Rachel Ward “From Bits to Bots: A Mathematical Perspective on Generative AI”

January 14, 2025 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Hugo Duminil-Copin “Critical phenomena through the lens of the Ising model”

May 21, 2024 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Hugo Duminil-Copin “From Coffee to Mathematics: Making Connections and Finding Unexpected Links”

May 20, 2024 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Peter Shor “Scientific Talk”

November 28, 2023 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series by Peter Shor “General Audience Talk”

November 27, 2023 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Harnessing Quantum Physics for Tabletop X-Ray Lasers” by Margaret Murnane

October 11, 2022 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Building the Microscopes of Tomorrow” by Margaret Murnane

October 10, 2022 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Differential Privacy and the US Census” by Cynthia Dwork

July 18, 2022 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Fairness, Justice, and … Algorithms?” by Cynthia Dwork

July 14, 2022 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture by Andrea Ghez

October 25, 2021 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The Frustrating Beauty of Traffic Waves – And How Automated Vehicles Can Prevent Them” by Benjamin Seibold

November 23, 2020 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Computational Genomic Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Cancer” by Jill P. Mesirov

January 28, 2020 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Can We Use Genomics to Better Understand and Treat Cancer?” by Jill P. Mesirov

January 27, 2020 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Gravitational Waves and a Future New Science,” by Barry Barish

January 30, 2019 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “From Einstein to Gravitational Waves,” by Barry Barish

January 28, 2019 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “The Knockoffs Framework: New Statistical Tools for Replicable Selections” by Emmanuel Candes

September 27, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Sailing Through Data: Discoveries and Mirages” by Emmanuel Candes

September 24, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

IPAM Public Lecture: “The Melting Rubik’s Cube: From Fluids to Combinatorics and Vice Versa” by Yann Brenier

June 27, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “God May or May Not Play Dice but He Sure Loves a von Neumann Algebra” by Vaughan Jones

May 2, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “What is it about the Plane?” by Vaughan Jones

May 1, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series; “AI Breakthroughs & Obstacles to Progress, Mathematical and Otherwise” by Yann LeCun

February 6, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Deep Learning and the Future of Artificial Intelligence” by Yann LeCun

February 5, 2018 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “What’s New In Two-Dimensional Topological Gravity” by Edward Witten

December 1, 2017 Program Category: Public Lectures

The Calculus of Comedy: Math in The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Big Bang Theory

October 25, 2017 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “From Gauge Theory to Khovanov Homology Via Floer Theory” by Edward Witten

March 6, 2017 Program Category: Public Lectures

IPAM Public Lecture: “A World from a Sheet of Paper” by Tadashi Tokieda

May 18, 2016 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Bones, Teeth and Animation,” by Ingrid Daubechies

May 10, 2016 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “The Master’s Hand: Can Image Analysis Detect the Hand of the Master?” by Ingrid Daubechies

May 9, 2016 Program Category: Public Lectures

IPAM Lecture: “Missing in Translation – Where are the Innovations?” by Sadasivan Shankar

November 12, 2015 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series, Research Lecture: “Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence” by Andrew W. Lo

May 19, 2015 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series, Public Lecture: “Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer? A New Approach to Funding Biomedical Innovation” by Andrew W. Lo

May 18, 2015 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series, Research Lecture: “Permanent & Determinant: Non-identical Twins” by Avi Wigderson

May 20, 2014 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series, Public Lecture: “Randomness and Pseudorandomness” by Avi Wigderson

May 19, 2014 Program Category: Public Lectures

IPAM Lecture: “Some People Have All the Luck” by Skip Garibaldi, Lawrence Mower, and Philip B. Stark

April 28, 2014 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “How Election Campaigns are Run and the Future of Math in Politics” by Congressman Jerry McNerney

April 22, 2014 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Bursts, Cascades, and Hot Spots: A Glimpse of Some On-Line Social Phenomena at Global Scales” by Jon Kleinberg

January 8, 2014 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet” by Emily Carter

November 4, 2013 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series, Research Lecture: “Random Mountains” by Wendelin Werner

June 7, 2013 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series, Public Lecture: “Drawing Pictures at Random” by Wendelin Werner

June 6, 2013 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Toward Brain Computer Interfacing” by Klaus Robert Mueller

March 4, 2013 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “A Physicist’s Approach to Macular Degeneration,” by Walter Kohn

May 31, 2012 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “Electronic Structure of Matter: Wave Functions and Density Functionals” by Walter Kohn

May 30, 2012 Program Category: Public Lectures

Green Family Lecture Series: “A World Predominately Powered by Solar and Wind Energy?” by Walter Kohn

May 29, 2012 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The National Ignition Facility: Pathway to Fusion Ignition, Frontier Science and Clean Energy” by Ed Moses

April 18, 2012 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Interpreting Personal Genomes: Promises and Potential Pitfalls” by Carlos D. Bustamante

November 29, 2011 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The Science of Cooking” by Michael Brenner

October 25, 2011 Program Category: Public Lectures

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 Program Category: Public Lectures

IPAM 10th Anniversary Lecture: “Mathematics for Air Traffic Control and Other Hybrid Systems” by Claire Tomlin

November 3, 2010 Program Category: Public Lectures

IPAM 10th Anniversary Lecture: “IPAM: Historical, UCLA, NSF and Global Perspectives” by Tony Chan

November 2, 2010 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Global Warming: Coming Ready or Not” by Kevin Trenberth

May 5, 2010 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Climatic Impact of Volcanos: From Eyjafjallajökull to Supervolcanoes” by Ulrike Neimeier and Stefan Lorenz

April 21, 2010 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics” by David Gross

February 22, 2010 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “On Mean Field Games” by Pierre-Louis Lions

January 5, 2010 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The Combinatorics of Voting Paradoxes” by Noga Alon

October 5, 2009 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Climate Change and the Mathematics of Sea Ice” by Kenneth Golden

April 29, 2009 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Homogeneous Dynamics and Number Theory” by Gregory Margulis

January 13, 2009 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The Internets We Did Not Build” by David Clark

November 3, 2008 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “From the Lung to the Cells’ Powerhouses: Symmorphosis in the Design of the Pathway for Oxygen” by Ewald Weibel

May 21, 2008 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Virtual Surgery: Computational Methods and Simulations for Facial Reconstructions” by Dr. Court Cutting

January 9, 2008 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “The Nature of Roughness in Mathematics, Science and Art” by Benoit Mandelbrot

April 16, 2007 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “How Topology Will Save Moore’s Law: Quantum Computation via Exotic States of Matter” by Michael Freedman

February 28, 2007 Program Category: Public Lectures

Public Lecture: “Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes” by Kerry Emanuel

February 12, 2007 Program Category: Public Lectures