A History of the Spring Lecture Series

 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.

Past Lecture Series:

• Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics (2007)
  Noel Cressie (Ohio State University)
• Geometric Group Theory (2006)
  Martin Bridson (Imperial College London)
• Commutative Algebra: Recent Developments in Tight Closure (2005)
  Mel Hochster (University of Michigan) and Craig Huneke (University of Kansas)
• Recent Developments in Applied Harmonic Analysis:  Multiscale Geometric Analysis (2004)
  David Donoho (Stanford University) and Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology)
• The Andrews-Curtis and the Poincare Conjectures (2003)
  Andrew Casson (Yale University)
• Harmonic Analysis, Multilinear Operators, and Schrodinger Operators (2002)
  Michael Christ (UC Berkeley)
• Solutions of Partial Differentila Equations in Periodic Media (2001)
  Luis Caffarelli and Rafael de la Llave (University of Texas, Austin)
• Recent Progress in the Study of Harmonic Measure from a Geometric and an Analytic Point of View (2000)
  Carlos Kenig (University of Chicago)
• Complex Dynamics (1999)
  John Milnor (SUNY at Stony Brook) with Mikhail Lyubich (SUNY at Stony Brook) and John Smillie (Cornell University)
• Combinatorial Methods in Algebra (1998)
  Efim Zelmanof (Yale University)
• Dehn Surgery (1997)
  Cameron Gordon (University of Texas)
• Differential Methods in Interpolation and their Applications (1996)
  Nigel J. Kalton (University of Missouri-Columbia)
• Geometric Mechanics, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory (1995)
  Jerrold E. Mardsen (Universiry of California, Berkeley)
• Mathematical Approaches to the Study of Non-Linear Materials (1994)
  David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Clifford Algebras in Analysis (1993)
  Alan McIntosh (Macquarie University, Australia )
• Symplectic Topology (1992)
  Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University)
• Determinantal Ideals and Representation Theory (1991)
  David A. Buchsbaum (Brandeis University)
• Phase Type Distributions and Some Applications (1990)
  Marcel F. Neuts (University of Arizona)
• Operators and Function Theory:  The Role of De Branges's Spaces (1989)
  D. Sarason (UC Berkeley)
• The Schwarz Function and its Generalization to Higher Dimensions (1988)
  Harold S. Shapiro (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden )
• Operators on Martingales (1987)
  Donald Burkholder (Univesity of Illinois)
• Viscosity Soltions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations (1986)
  Michael G. Crandall (University of Wisconsin)
• Applications of Harmonic Measure (1985)
  John Garnett (UCLA)
• Estimation and Control of Distributed Systems (1984)
  H. T. Banks (Brown University)
• Numerical Analysis of Parametrized Non-Linear Equations (1983)
  Werner C. Rheinboldt (University of Pittsburgh)
• Statistics on Spheres (1982)
  Geoffrey S. Watson (Princeton University)
• Structure Theory of Jordan Algebras (1981)
  Nathan Jacobson (Yale)
• Function Theory in the Unit Ball of Cⁿ (1980)
  Walter Rudin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Some Aspects of the Theory of Riesz Spaces (1979)
  W. A. J. Luxemburg (California Institute of Technology)
• Non-Greek Mathematics (1978)
  Kiyoshi Iseki (Kobe University)
• Probability Applied to Physics (1978)
  James Glimm (Rockefeller University) and Arthur Jaffe (Harvard University)
• Problems in Approximation Theory. (1977)
  G.G. Lorentz (University of Texas, Austin), with a contribution by P. Nevai