Sackler Distinguished Lectures

The Sackler Distinguished Lectures are an endowed annual lecture series, bringing an outstanding mathematician to Israel every year. The lectures are given at Tel Aviv University. They are supported by Raymond R. Sackler (a brother of Arthur M. Sackler) and his wife, Beverly, philanthropists with a commitment to support scientific research.

The first lecture series took place in 1980.

List of the Sackler Distinguished Lecturers^[1]

• 1980/1981: Joseph B. Keller (Stanford University, U.S.), Friedrich Hirzebruch (University of Bonn, Germany)
• 1981/1982: Elias M. Stein (Princeton University, U.S.)
• 1982/1983: Pierre Deligne (IHÉS, France)
• 1984/1985: George Mostow (Yale University, U.S.)
• 1985/1986: Isidore Singer (MIT, U.S.)
• 1986/1987: Alain Connes (IHÉS, France)
• 1989/1990: Lennart Carleson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Ya. G. Sinai (USSR)
• 1990/1991: Sergei Novikov (Moscow State University, USSR)
• 1991/1992: Joseph Bernstein (Harvard University, U.S.)
• 1993/1994: Pierre-Louis Lions ( University of Paris-Dauphine, France)
• 1996/1997: László Lovász (Yale University, U.S.)
• 1997/1998: Enrico Bombieri (IAS, U.S.)
• 1998/1999: Peter Shor (AT&T, U.S.), Alexander Razborov (Steklov Institute, Russia)
• 2000/2001: Jean-Michel Bismut (France), Peter Sarnak (U.S.)
• 2003/2004: Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (University of Paris-Sud, France), Shlomo Sternberg (Harvard University, U.S.)
• 2006/2007: Toshiyuki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• 2008/2009: Charles Fefferman (Princeton University, U.S.)
• 2008/2009: Boris Feigin (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia)
• 2008/2009: Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.)
• 2009/2010: Ronald DeVore (Texas A&M University, U.S.)
• 2011/2012: Ronald Coifman (Yale University, U.S.)
• 2011/2012: Jonathan Wahl (University of North Carolina, U.S.)^[2]
• 2013/2014: Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, U.S.)^[3]
• 2016/2017: Hélène Esnault (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

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