Harold J. Gay Lecture Series
Named for former WPI Mathematics Professor Harold J. Gay, this lecture series highlights both classical milestones and contemporary trends in the research, development, and application of the mathematical sciences to various fields.
Harold J Gay Lectures
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sept. 20, 2024 | Jean-Pierre Fouque | Reinforcement Learning for Mean Field Game and Control Problems |
| April 5, 2024 | Leslie Greengard | Adaptive, multilevel, Fourier-based fast transforms |
| Feb. 2, 2024 | Lisa Fauci | Waving, rotating, buckling: filaments in flow at the microscale |
| Nov. 19, 2019 | Tristan Rivière | `Looking at 2 Spheres in R^3 with a Morse Theoretic Perspective'' |
| Apr. 12, 2019 | Giovanni Gallavotti | "Entropy, Irreversiblity and Probability in chaotic systems" |
| Apr. 6, 2018 | Grigory Panasenko | "Asymptotic coupling of models of different dimensions: MAPDD" |
| Feb. 20, 2018 | Alessio Figalli | "Regularity of Interfaces in Phase Transition via Obstacle Problems" |
| Nov 3, 2017 | Yanyan Li | "Derivative estimates for solutions of divergence form equations with discontinuous coefficients" |
| Oct 6, 2017 | Robert Lipton | "Manipulating light with metamaterials and photonic crystals" |
| Nov. 6, 2015 | Wendell F. Fleming | "Differential Games and Risk Sensitive Stochastic Control" |
| Dec. 5, 2014 | Endre Szemerédi | "Puzzles and Famous Unsolved Problems" |
| Oct 21, 2014 | Pierre Louis Lions | "On Mean Field Games" |
| Apr. 25, 2014 | Viorel Barbu | "PDEs and Variational-based Models for Image Restoring" |
| Feb. 14, 2014 | Sergiu Klainerman | "Are Black Holes Real?" |
| Nov. 15, 2013 | Silvio Micali | "Proofs, Secrets, and Computation" |
| Feb. 11, 2013 | Luis Caffarelli | "The Mathematical Idea of Diffusion" |
| Feb. 1, 2013 | Irene Fonseca | "Variation Methods in Materials Science and Image Processing" |
| Jan. 18, 2013 | Jüri Engelbrecht | "Modeling of Deformation Waves in Microstructured Solids" |
| Nov. 29, 2012 | Luc Tartar | "From ODE to beyond PDE" |
| Apr. 13, 2012 | Alfio Quarteroni | "Modeling and Complexity Reduction in PDEs for Multiphysics" |
| Mar. 23, 2012 | David Jerison | "Internal Diffusion-Limited Aggregation" |
| Dec. 9, 2011 | Robert Hardt | "Some New Uses of Function with Finite Total Variation" |
| Dec. 2, 2011 | Graeme Milton | "Cloaking: Where Science Fiction Meets Science" |
| Mar. 25, 2011 | Louis H. Kauffman | "Topological Quantum Information and the Jones Polynomial" |
| Oct. 8, 2010 | Hans Weinberger | "The Spreading of Invasive Species and Related Topics" |
| Mar. 19, 2010 | George C. Papanicolaou | "Imaging with Noise" |
| Jan. 22, 2010 | Constantine M. Dafermos | "Progress in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws" |
| Apr. 14, 2009 | Gilbert Strang | "Are Most Triangles Acute or Obtuse?" |
| Mar. 16, 2009 | Srinivasa Varadhan | "Scaling Limits of Large Systems" |
| Nov. 20, 2008 | Walter Strauss | "Steady Rotational Water Waves" |
| Apr. 18, 2008 | David Kinderlehrer | "Transport in Small Systems with a Look at Motor Proteins" |
| Sept. 28, 2007 | Grigory Issaakovich Barenblatt | "Scaling, Self-similarity, and the Renormalization Group in Partial Differential Equations" |
| Mar. 23, 2007 | Stuart S. Antman | "Quasistaticity" |
| Feb. 26, 2007 | Douglas N. Arnold | "The Geometrical Basis of Numerical Stability" |
| Dec. 6, 2006 | Cathleen Morawetz | "From Collionless Shocks to Integrable Systems" |
| Dec. 1, 2006 | Barbara Lee Keyfitz | "Multidimensional Conservation Laws" |
| Nov. 10, 2006 | Benoit Mandelbrot | "Fractional Roughness: Beautiful, Damn hard, and Surprisingly Useful" |
| Mar. 31, 2006 | Peter D. Lax | "Degenerate Symmetric Matrices" |