80th Anniversary Celebrations in 2010 - Schools of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

The Schools of Mathematics and Natural Sciences held their 80th Anniversary Celebration events on September 24 and 25, 2010. A detailed program may be found below, which includes links to videos for individual talks. You may view a complete listing of available videos from the celebration here.

To view the program for the events celebrating the work of the Schools of Historical Studies and Social Science, which took place on November 12-13, 2010, please click here.

School of Mathematics and School of Natural Sciences Program

To view a PDF of the program, please click here.

Friday, September 24

12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch, Dining Hall

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Seminar, Dilworth Room
NIMA ARKANI-HAMED
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
Fundamental Physics in the 21st Century

View video here.

2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Seminar, Wolfensohn Hall
JOHN MILNOR, Co-Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University;
School of Mathematics:
Member, 1965–66
Faculty, 1970–90
Geometry of Growth and Form: Commentary on D’Arcy Thompson

View video here.

3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Seminar, Wolfensohn Hall
JEAN BOURGAIN
Professor, School of Mathematics
Expansion in Linear Groups and Applications

View video here.

3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Seminar, Dilworth Room
MATIAS ZALDARRIAGA
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
Cosmology: Recent Results and Future Prospects

View video here.

4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Tea, Fuld Hall Common Room

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Public Lecture, Wolfensohn Hall
FRANK WILCZEK
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
School of Natural Sciences:
Member, 1977–78
Faculty, 1988–2000
Quanta, Symmetry, and Topology

View video here.

6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Reception, Fuld Hall Common Room

7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Dinner, Dining Hall
Remarks:
FREEMAN DYSON
Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences
ROBERT LANGLANDS
Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics

9:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m.
Drinks and Conversation, Harry’s Bar		  

Saturday, September 25

8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Breakfast, Dining Hall
Host, Peter Goddard

8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Breakfast Talk, Dining Hall
DIDIER FASSIN
James D. Wolfensohn Professor
School of Social Science
Conspiracy Theories in Medicine

View video here.

9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Lecture, Wolfensohn Hall
STANISLAS LEIBLER
Professor, Simons Center for Systems Biology, School of Natural Sciences; Gladys T. Perkin Professor, The Rockefeller University
Quatre-vingt. Four Bases, Twenty Amino Acids: Is Biology Becoming Quantitative?

11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Lecture, Wolfensohn Hall
VLADIMIR VOEVODSKY
Professor, School of Mathematics
What if Current Foundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent?

View video here.

12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch, Dining Hall