Clifford Lectures
History and Significance
The Clifford Lectures at Tulane University are a week-long series of lectures given each year by a prominent mathematician. These lectures are intended for a general mathematical audience, including graduate students, and are meant to give an overview of a current area of research in mathematics. The Clifford Lectures were founded in 1978 by the noted algebraist, group theorist, and semigroupist Alfred H. Clifford (1908-1992), who spent the last 27 years of his career at Tulane, after a first career at Caltech, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. He authored with Gordon Preston the two-volume Algebraic Theory of Semigroups, published by the AMS in 1961 and 1967, which for many years was the bible of semigroup theory.
Biography of Martin Hairer
Martin Hairer is an Austrian mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Among his many contributions to the field, he is renowned for his groundbreaking work on regularity structures, a mathematical framework that allows one to describe the solutions to singular stochastic partial differential equations. Among his many accolades, he was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014, the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2021, and the King Faisal Prize in 2022.
Organizer
Samuel Punshon-Smith (Tulane University)