Richard von Mises Lecture 2018
June 22, 2018
Daniele Boffi (Università die Pavia, Italy)
"Finite element approximation of the Maxwell eigenvalue problem" (Abstract)
Historical Lecture:
Bernd Bank (HU Berlin)
"Leopold Kronecker, ein konfliktiver Gelehrter?" (Abstract)
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2017
June 16, 2017
Thomas Valentin Mikosch (University Copenhagen)
"Richard von Mises and the development of modern extreme value theory" (Abstract)
Historical Lecture:
Wiesław Tadeusz Żelazko (IMPAN Warsaw)
"A short history of Polish mathematics" (Abstract)
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2016
June 17, 2016
Anne Kværnø (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
"Stochastical Differential Equations from a Numerical Analyst's Point of View"
Historical Lecture:
Reinhard Bölling (Universität Potsdam)
"Angewandte Mathematik bei Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897) und Sofja Kowalewskaja (1850-1891)"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2015
June 26, 2015
John Walsh (The University of British Columbia)
"Some Remarks on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations"
Historical Lecture:
Fritz Nagel (Bernoulli-Euler-Zentrum an der Universität Basel)
"Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705): Streiflichter auf Leben und Werk des Begründers der Stochastik"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2014
June 13, 2014
Leszek F. Demkowicz (The University of Texas at Austin)
"Finite Elements for Maxwell Equations"
Historical Lecture:
Annette Vogt (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)
"Statistics in Berlin between Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868-1931) and Richard von Mises (1883-1953)"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2013
June 14, 2013
Louis H.Y. Chen (University of Singapore)
"From Functional Equations to Probability Approximations: The Amazing Stein's Method" (Abstract)
Historical Lecture:
Michael Heidelberger (Universität Tübingen)
"Philosophie der Wahrscheinlichkeit um 1900: von Kries, Fechner, von Mises" (Abstract)
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2012
June 22, 2012
Sir John Ball (University of Oxford)
"Quasiconvexity and Experiments on Phase Nucleation"
Historical Lecture:
Bernd Bank (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
"Große Berliner Mathematiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, unter ihnen Leopold Kronecker, ein theoretischer Informatiker"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2011
July 1, 2011
Christian P. Robert (Université Paris Dauphine)
"On Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods"
Historical Lecture:
Walter Purkert (Universität Bonn)
"Felix Hausdorff - Paul Mongré. Mathematiker, Philosoph und Literat"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2010
June .., 2010
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2009
June 12, 2009
Albert N. Shiryaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)
"The Concepts of Randomness: from Mises' Kollektiv to Kolmogorov's Complexity"
Historical Lecture:
Eberhard Knobloch (o. Mitglied der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin)
"Tönende Algebra: Beziehungen zwischen Kombinatorik und Musik von Mersenne bis Euler"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2008
June 20, 2008
Enrique Zuazua (IMDEA Matemáticas & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
"Flow Control in the Presense of Shocks"
Historical Lecture:
Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand)
"Richard von Mises in Berlin 1920-1933: die erste mathematisch seriöse Schule der angewandten Mathematik"
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Richard von Mises Lecture 2007
June 07, 2007
Philip Protter (Cornell University)
"Modeling Financial Bubbles"
Historical Lecture:
Anette Vogt (MPI HS Berlin)
"In memoriam Richard von Mises"
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