Rado Lectures

The Radó Lectures were established to honor the memory of Tibor Radó, who was a member of the department from 1930 until his death in 1965. These lectures are to be given in some area of analysis, broadly interpreted. The following lectures have been held in this series:

• 2006 Rado Lectures, Elias M. Stein, Princeton University, April 18-20
• 2002 Rado Lectures, Timothy Gowers, Cambridge University, May 13-15, 2002
• 2002 Rado Lectures, Mikhael Gromov, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, February 25-27, 2002
• Einstein Metrics and the Complex Monge-Ampere Equations, Gang Tian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 22-24, 2001 · Schedule of lectures
• Differentiability of Lipschitz Functions on Metric Measure Spaces, Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU), Oct. 20-22, 1998
• Topology of spaces with torus actions, Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study, Apr. 17-19, 1996

Zassenhaus Lectures

The Zassenhaus Lectures were established to honor the memory of Hans Zassenhaus, who was a member of the department from 1963 until his death in 1991. These lectures are to be given in some area of algebra, broadly interpreted. The following lectures have been held in this series:

• Arithmetic and analysis on locally symmetric spaces, Peter Sarnak, Princeton University, November 3-5, 2004
• Eigenvalues and Schubert Calculus, William Fulton, University of Michigan, February 6-7, 2003
• Motivic Homotopy Theory, Vladimir Voevodsky, Institute for Advanced Study, April 17-19, 2001
• Graphs, spectra and Steinitz representations, László Lovász, Microsoft Research, May 18-19, 2000
• Operads and Deformation Quantization, Maxim Kontsevich, l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Feb. 23-25, 1999
• Automorphic forms and infinite dimensional Lie algebras, Richard E. Borcherds, University of Cambridge, Apr. 27-29, 1998
• On the Burnside problem and pro-p groups, Efim Zelmanov, University of Chicago, Nov. 1-4, 1994

Math Community Forum

The Math Community Forum (formerly called Math 2000 Colloquium Series) presents lectures on subjects, such as current teaching trends, for all those interested in improving the mathematics community both inside OSU and throughout the State of Ohio.

Radical Pi Lectures

Lectures for undergraduate students presented by the Ohio State University Math Club.

Other Lectures

• Mathematicians writing for elementary teachers, November 13-14, 2003
• Five talks on the Poincare Conjecture, October 13-17, 2003
• Mathematics Association of America, Ohio Section Spring Meeting, April 4-5, 2003
• Boundaries of Groups - A View from the Inside, Lecture Series by Hillel Furstenberg, February 11 - March 15, 2002
• Ergodic Theory and the Geometry of Fractals, Lecture Series by Hillel Furstenberg, February - March 2001
• Noncommutative Geometry, Trace Formulas and the Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function, Course by Alain Connes, Oct. 12 - Nov. 13, 1998 · Videos
• The Solving of Fermat's Last Theorem, Karl Rubin's Ohio State University Distinguished Lecture on May 22, 1997 · Slides and no-frames version (copied from Karl's home page with his gracious permission).