UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS
SPRING LECTURE SERIES
IN THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

The University of Arkansas Spring Lecture series are conferences organized every spring by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Arkansas.

Each conference is focused on a specific topic chosen among the current leading research areas in Mathematics; there is a principal lecturer who delivers a short, five-lectures course and selects a number of specialists who are invited to give talks on subjects closely related to the topic of the conference.

Short talks by young PhDs and finishing graduate students are solicited to complement the conference.

Each Lecture Series has grown into an ideal opportunity for specialists and young researchers to meet and exchange ideas about topics at the forefront of modern mathematics.

The Spring Lectures are usually sponsored by the NSF jointly with the University of Arkansas. The proceedings of several conferences have appeared in the series "University of Arkansas Lecture Notes in the Mathematical Sciences", published by John Wiley & Sons.

Lecture Series N. 1: Problems in Approximation Theory. (1977)

  • Principal Lecturer: G.G. Lorentz (University of Texas, Austin), with a contribution of P. Nevai.
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 2: Probability Applied to Physics (1978).

  • Principal Lecturers: James Glimm (Rockefeller University) and Arthur Jaffe (Harvard University).
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 3: Non-Greek Mathematics (1978).

  • Principal Lecturer: Kiyoshi Iseki (Kobe University).
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 4: Some Aspects of the Theory of Riesz Spaces (1979).

  • Principal Lecturer: W. A. J. Luxemburg (California Institute of Technology).
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 5: Function Theory in the Unit Ball of C^n (1980).

  • Principal Lecturer: Walter Rudin (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 6: Structure Theory of Jordan Algebras (1981)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 7: Statistics on Spheres (1982)

  • Principal Lecturer: Geoffrey S. Watson (Princeton University)
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 8: Numerical Analysis of Parametrized Non-Linear Equations (1983).

  • Principal Lecturer: Werner C. Rheinboldt (University of Pittsburgh).
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 9: Estimation and Control of Distributed Systems (1984).

  • Principal Lecturer: H. T. Banks (Brown University).

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 10: Applications of Harmonic Measure (1985).

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.11: Viscosity Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (1986).

  • Principal Lecturer: Michael G. Crandall (University of Wisconsin)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 12: Operators on Martingales (1987).

  • Principal Lecturer: Donald Burkholder (University of Illinois)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 13: The Schwarz Function and its Genralization to Higher Dimensions (1988).

  • Principal Lecturer: Harold S. Shapiro (Royal Insitute of Technology, Sweden)
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Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 14: Operators and Function Theory: The Role of De Branges's Spaces (1989).

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 15: Phase Type Distributions and Some Applications (1990).

  • Principal Lecturer: Marcel F. Neuts (University of Arizona)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 16: Determinantal Ideals and Representation Theory (1991).

  • Principal Lecturer: David A. Buchsbaum (Brandeis University)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 17: Symplectic Topology (1992).

  • Principal Lecturer: Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 18: Clifford Algebras in Analysis (1993)

Lecture Series N. 19: Mathematical Approaches to the Study of Non-Linear Materials (1994).

  • Principal Lecturer: David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 20: Geometric Mechanics, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory (1995).

  • Principal Lecturer: Jerrold E. Mardsen (University of California, Berkeley)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 21: Differential Methods in Interpolation and Their Applications (1996).

  • Principal Lecturer: Nigel J. Kalton (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N. 22: Dehn Surgery (1997)

  • Principal Lecturer: Cameron Gordon (University of Texas)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.23: Combinatorial Methods in Algebra (1998)

  • Principal Lecturer: Efim Zelmanof (Yale University)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.24: Complex Dynamics (1999)

  • Principal Lecturers: John Milnor (SUNY at Stony Brook) with Mikhail Lyubich (SUNY at Stony Brook) and John Smillie (Cornell University)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.25: Recent Progress in the Study of Harmonic Measure From a Geometric and an Analytic Point of View (2000)

  • Principal Lecturer: Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.26: Solutions of Partial Differential Equations in Periodic Media (2001)

  • Principal Lecturers: Luis Caffarelli and Rafael de la Llave (University of Texas, Austin)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.27: Harmonic analysis, multilinear operators, and Schrodinger operators (2002)

  • Principal Lecturer: Michael Christ (UC Berkeley)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.28: The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures (2003)

  • Principal Lecturer: Andrew Casson (Yale University)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.29: Recent Developments in Applied Harmonic Analysis: Multiscale Geometric Analysis (2004)

  • Principal Lecturers: David Donoho (Stanford University) and Emmanuel Candès (California Institute of Technology)

Contributed Talks

Lecture Series N.30: Commutative Algebra: Recent Developments in Tight Closure
(2005)

  • Principal Lecturers: Mel Hochster (University of Michigan) and Craig Huneke (University of Kansas)

Contributed Talks