Blyth Lecture Series

History

The R.A. Blyth Lectures are an annual distinguished lecture series in Mathematics and Mathematical Science, established by the Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the firt Professorship in Mathematics at the University. It consists of three lectures by a distinguished mathematician: the first for a general scientific audience, the second for a general mathematical audience, and the third for specialists in the field.

Information on previous year's events can be found at the following link: http://www.math.toronto.edu/cms/blyth

The 18th Annual Blyth Lecture (March 25 - 27, 2013)

The department welcomes Professor Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University) as this year's Blyth speaker. His topic will be "From Stein to Weinstein and back: an interplay between complex and symplectic geometries".

Further details can be found here (under Special Events)

The poster for this event can be found here

Dates in this series

· Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011: Lecture 1: Spectral and Electrical Graph Theory (Daniel Spielman)
· Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011: Lecture 2: Solving Systems of Linear Equations in Graph Laplacians (Daniel Spielman)
· Friday, Sep. 30, 2011: Lecture 3: Sparsification of Graphs and Approximation of Matrices (Daniel Spielman)