{"id":37,"date":"2015-02-18T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:04:31","slug":"distinguished-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mathematics.haifa.ac.il\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Since 2000, a distinguished scholar is invited once a year by the department to give a series of three lectures.<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Videos from past distinguished lectures available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UniversityofHaifaMathematics\">here<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">2026 &#8211; Prof. Alex Lubotzky<br \/>\n(<span class=\"fontstyle0\">Weizmann Institute<\/span>)<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2026-distinguished-lecture-series-in-mathematics-alex-lubotzky\">High dimensional expanders in mathematics and computer science<\/a><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">List of past speakers<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>2000 Prof. Pierre Cartier (Inst. Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)<\/li>\n<li>2001 Prof. David Kazhdan (Harvard University)<\/li>\n<li>2002 Prof. Shlomo Sternberg (Harvard University)<\/li>\n<li>2003 Prof. Joseph Bernstein (Tel-Aviv University)<\/li>\n<li>2004 Prof. Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University)<\/li>\n<li>2005 Prof. Peter Sarnak (New York University)<\/li>\n<li>2006 Prof. Yitzhak Katznelson (Stanford University)<\/li>\n<li>2008 Prof. Mathhias Kreck (University of Bonn)<\/li>\n<li>2009 Prof. Bela Bollobas (Cambridge University)<\/li>\n<li>2010 Prof. Efim Zelmanov (UC San Diego)<\/li>\n<li>2011 Prof. Vladimir Voevodsky (IAS)<\/li>\n<li>2012 Prof. Alan Weinstein (UC Berkeley)<\/li>\n<li>2013 Prof. Peter Teichner (Max Planck &amp; UC Berkeley)<\/li>\n<li>2014 Prof. Endre Szemeredi (Rutgers University)<\/li>\n<li>2015 Prof. Yakov Sinai (Princeton University)<\/li>\n<li>2016 Prof. Claire Voisin (Universite de Paris VI &amp; Ecole Polytechnique)<\/li>\n<li>2017 Prof. John Morgan\u00a0(State University of New York at Stony Brook)<\/li>\n<li>2018 Prof. Barry Simon (California Institute of Technology)<\/li>\n<li>2019 Prof. Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study)<\/li>\n<li>2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2021-distinguished-lecture-series-maxim-kontsevich\">Prof. Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2022-distinguished-lecture-series-mikhail-kapranov?authuser=0\">Prof. Mikhail Kapranov (University of Tokyo)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2023-distinguished-lecture-series-ieke-moerdijk\">Prof. Ieke Moerdijk (University of Utrecht)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2024-distinguished-lecture-series-shmuel-weinberger?authuser=0\">Prof. Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2025-distinguished-lecture-series-daniel-wise\">Prof. Daniel Wise (McGill University)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/orenbenbassat\/2026-distinguished-lecture-series-in-mathematics-alex-lubotzky\">Prof. Alex Lubotzky (Weizmann Institute)<\/a><br \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics and Computer Science<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jointly with the Caesarea Rothschild Institute and the Computer Science Department, the Department of Mathematics also hosts a Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics and Computer Science.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2006 Prof. Richard Stanley (MIT)<\/li>\n<li>2007 Prof. Avi Wigderson (IAS)<\/li>\n<li>2008 Prof. Hendrik Lenstra (Leiden)<\/li>\n<li>2009 Prof. Joel Spencer (Courant Institute)<\/li>\n<li>2010 Prof. Gregory Chaitin (IBM T.J. Watson)<\/li>\n<li>2011 Prof. Daniel Spielman (Yale)<\/li>\n<li>2013 Prof. Piotr Indyk (MIT)<\/li>\n<li>2015 Prof. Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft Research)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics Since 2000, a distinguished scholar is invited once a year by the department to give a series of three lectures. 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