Taft Lectures

The Charles P. Taft Memorial Fund sponsors a program of public lectures each year, including one or more in mathematics. These lectures feature prominent mathematicians speaking on recent important developments in their field. Each lecturer usually gives two lectures on consecutive days. The first lecture is aimed at a fairly general audience while the second tends to include more specialized material. The Taft Lectures are free and open to the public.

2007 - 2008

Professor Henrik Shahgholian
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Thursday, March 6, 2008
4 pm, Room 301 Braunstein Hall
The Obstacle Problem and Its Ramifications

Friday, March 7, 2008
3 pm, Room 301 Braunstein Hall
The Two-Phase Membrance Problem and Regularity of the Free Boundary

Professor Alan F. Karr
Director, National Institute of Statistical Science
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
What is Data Confidentiality and Why Should I Care?

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases


Professor Tom Korner
University of Cambridge
March 30 - 31, 2006
Mathematics and Smallpox
Does Order Matter?

Professor Andrew Yao
2000 Turing Award Winner
June 1 - 2, 2005
An Expedition into Modern Cryptography
Vistas in Quantum Computing

Professor Avner Friedman, Director
Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Ohio State University
November 18 - 19, 2004
How useful is mathematics to the biosciences?
Mathematical models in tumor growth

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