Previous Ordway Distinguished Lecturers & Visitors
The Ordway visitor program brings in distinguished, well-known mathematicians with a record of major accomplishments.
2020s
+
2023-24
2023-24
Angela Stevens
University of Münster
September 10 – October 9, 2023
Ko Honda
University of California, Los Angeles
February 18 – 24, 2024
Eric Bonnetier
Université Grenoble-Alpes
April 1 – 27, 2024
Gregory Seregin
University of Oxford
March 31 – May 18, 2024
+
2022–23
Steven Hofmann
University of Missouri
January 11 - February 8, 2023
Mauro Maggioni
Johns Hopkins University
January 16 – 20, 2023
Andrea Montanari
Stanford University
March 13 - 17, 2023
Friedrich Götze
University of Bielefeld
March 19 - April 18, 2023
Arjen Doelman
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
April 2–17, 2023
Kenji Fukaya
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
April 9 - 21, 2023
Lin Lin
University of California, Berkeley
April 23 - 28, 2023
+
2021–22
Dionisios Margetis
University of Maryland
January 17–28 and March 14–25, 2022
2010s
+
2019–20
Arnoldo Frigessi
University of Oslo, Norway
December 1–8, 2019
+
2018–19
Huai-Dong Cao
Lehigh University — Bethlehem, PA
September 9–October 7, 2018
Thomas Hou
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) — Pasadena, CA
April 29–May 3, 2019
Vlad Markovic
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) — Pasadena, CA
April 17–26, 2019
Hiroshi Matano
Meiji University — Tokyo, Japan
September 21–October 15, 2018
Christopher Skinner
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
April 14–27, 2019
Kari Vilonen
University of Melbourne — Australia
September 20–October 3, 2018 and Spring 2019
Lexing Ying
Stanford University — Stanford, CA
November 26–30, 2018
+
2017–18
Bhargav Bhatt
University of Michigan
April 23–May 4, 2018
Huai-Dong Cao
Lehigh University
April 23–May 4, 2018
Rui Loja Fernandes
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 25–March 10 and September 9–October 7, 2018
Alexander Grigor'yan
University of Beifield
January 16–February 16, 2018
Bau Chau Ngo
University of Chicago
April 4–14, 2018
Christopher Ortner
The University of Warwick
September 23–30, 2017 and April 1–21, 2018
Joel Tropp
California Institute of Technology
April 23–27, 2018
+
2016–17
Sylvia Serfaty
New York University
April 24–30, 2017
Yangyan Li
Rutgers University
March 2017
Graeme Milton
University of Utah
November 1–30, 2016
Philip Maini
University of Oxford
September 25–October 7, 2016
Gregory Seregin
Georgia Institute of Technology
October 1–31, 2016
Freydoon Shahidi
Purdue University
November 6–19, 2016
Amit Singer
Princeton University
September 26–30, 2016
+
2015–16
Ahmed Abbes
Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies
April 3–May 3, 2016
Soren Galatius
Stanford University
April 23–May 1, 2016
David Jerison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
March 21–April 1, 2016
Niky Kamran
McGill University
April 18–30, 2016
Michael Lacey
Georgia Institute of Technology
October 4–16, 2015
Martin Markl
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
November 17–December 21, 2015
Peter Sarnak
Princeton University
November 2–5, 2015
+
2014–15
Eric Carlen
Rutgers University
Mark Kisin
Harvard University
September 29–October 3, 2014
Hisashi Okamoto
Kyoto University
Joel Spencer
New York University
October 13–17, 2014
+
2013–14
Eric Cances
Ecole national des ponts et chaussees and INRIA Rocquencourt
Gunnar Carlsson
Stanford University
September 3–December 15, 2013
Solomon Friedberg
Boston College
February 24–March 7, 2014
Steve Hofmann
University of Missouri
March 2–15, 2014 and March 26–April 9, 2014
Shouwu Zhang
Princeton University
October 1–5, 2013
+
2012–13
Francesco Baldassarri
September 4–December 20, 2013 and January 22–May 10, 2013
Vladimir Markovic
California Institute of Technology
September 4–December 20, 2013 and January 22–May 10, 2013
Richard Stanley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 4–December 20, 2013 and January 22–May 10, 2013
Lutz Weis
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
September 4–December 20, 2013 and January 22–May 10, 2013
Tony Lelievre
Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, CERMICS
April 1–12, 2013 and April 22–May 4, 2013
+
2011–12
Yves Andre
CNRS
February 2012
Antonio Cordoba
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
April 18–May 5, 2012
Mikio Furuta
University of Tokyo
Sergiu Klainerman
Princeton University
March 26–30, 2012
Robert McKay
March 26–Apr 21, 2012
Vitali D. Milman
Tel Aviv University
October 2011
Gunther Uhlmann
University of California Irvine
November 7–18, 2011 and March 19–31, 2012
Michael Weinstein
Columbia University
October 31–November 11, 2011 and April 30–May 11, 2012
+
2010–11
Andre Joyal
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
March 27–April 9, 2011
Jun Li
Stanford University
February 28–March 11, 2011
Jacob Lurie
Harvard University
March 14–18, 2011
Felix Otto
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
April 10–May 7, 2011
Gunther Uhlmann
University of Washington
March 1–31, 2011
Ragnar Winther
Universitet I Oslo
April 1–30, 2011
2000s
+
2009–10
Gus Lehrer
University of Sydney, Australia
April 25–May 12, 2010
Alexander Olevskii
Tel Aviv University
March 15–May 5, 2010
Joachim Schwermer
Universitat Wien, Fakulatat fur Mathematik
March 1–5, 2010
Terence Tao
UCLA (University of California Los Angeles)
March 22–26, 2010
Robert Gompf
The University of Texas at Austin
March 8–12, 2010
+
2008–09
Claude Le Bris
CERMICS-ENPC, France
November 1–30, 2008
Friedrich Gotze
Bielefeld University
February 21–March 7, 2009
Werner Muller
Universitat Bonn, Mathematiches Institut
March 1–15, 2009
Michael Hopkins
Harvard University
March 22–27, 2009
+
2007–08
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University
September 3–8, 2007, October 29–November 2, 2007, and January 21–February 1, 2008
Vitali Milman
Tel Aviv University
October 1–November 1, 2007
Andrew Stuart
University of Warwick
October 28–November 9, 2007 and March 9–22, 2008
Pierre Berthelot
Universite de Rennes 1
November 4–14, 2007
Sergei Kuksin
Heriot-Watt University
February 2–March 1, 2008
Eiji Yanagida
Tohoku University
February 23–March 29, 2008
+
2006–07
Mikio Furuta
University of Tokyo
September 3–October 3, 2006
Peter Lax
Courant Institute, New York University
September 17–30, 2006
Weiyue Ding
Peking University
March 1–30, 2007
John Mallet-Paret
Brown University
April 1–May 1, 2007
Laurent Clozel
University of Paris-Sud
April 8–May 5, 2007
Gregory Seregin
Steklov Institute, St.Petersburg
April 11–May 28, 2007
+
2005–06
Bennett Chow
University of California, San Diego
September 4–October 3, 2005
Craig Huneke
University of Kansas, Lawrence
September 21–October 5, 2005 and March 27–April 8, 2006
David A. Vogan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
October 2–8, 2005
Francois Loeser
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
February 15–March 15, 2006
Stefan Hildebrandt
University of Bonn, Germany
March 27–April 22, 2006
Henri Berestycki
Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales (CAMS)
April 16–May 2, 2006
+
2004–05
Jack K. Hale
Georgia Institute of Technology
September 9–October 9, 2004
Erwin Bolthausen
Universitat Zurich
September 20–October 4, 2004
Pierre-Louis Lions
Université Paris-Dauphine
September 26–October 1, 2004
Louis Billera
Cornell University
October 2–November 2, 2004
Yongbin Ruan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
October 3–31, 2004
Robert Pego
University of Maryland, College Park
January 18–February 18, 2005
Michael Harris
University of Paris VII
February 13–26, 2005
Stuart Antman
University of Maryland, College Park
March 21–28, 2005
Alain Chenciner
IMCCE 77 and University of Paris VII
April 23–May 8, 2005
+
2003–04
Guy Henniart
Societe Mathematique de France
September 23, 2003
Jean Lannes
Ecole Polytechnique
October 13, 2003
M. Michel Ledoux
University Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse
November 17, 2003
Maxim Kontsevich
IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
April 19, 2004
Jim Douglas, Jr.
Purdue University
April 26, 2004
+
2002–03
Peter Li
University of California, Irvine
September 3–26, 2002
Giuseppe Da Prato
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
October 2002
Michael Powell
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
January 2003
Luc Illusie
Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay
January 18–February 22, 2003
John Dennis
Rice University
Mar, 2003
Christopher Sogge
Johns Hopkins University
April 6–21, 2003
Roger Howe
Yale University
April 21– May 2, 2003
+
2001–02
Jean-Claude Nedlec
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
October 2001
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University
November 2001
Robert O'Malley
University of Washington, Seattle
January 2002
David Soudry
Tel Aviv University
February 2002
Mikhail Kapranov
University of Toronto
Apr 15–May 15, 2002
Howard Masur
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 1, 2001
+
2000–01
Neil Trudinger
Australian National University, Canberra
October 2000
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University
January 22–February 4, 2001
John Mallet-Paret
Brown University
January 31–March 1, 2001
Mariano Giaquinta
Scuola Normale Superiore, di Pisa, Italy
March 2001
Michael Rapport
University of Cologne
March 2001
Howard Masur
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 1, 2001
1990s
+
1999–2000
Rafail Khasminskii
Wayne State University
September 25–October 9, 1999
Professor William Symes
Rice University
November–December 1999
Professor Lawrence Breen
Institute Galilee, Univ. of Paris 13
December 13, 1999
Professor Stefan Mueller
Max-Planck Institute for Math in the Sciences
February 29–March 31, 2000
Professor C. David Levermore
The University of Arizona, Tucson
April 2000
+
1998 –99
Albrecht Dold
Universitat Heidelberg
October 12, 1998
Thomas Zink
University of Bielefeld
March 1999
Michael Vogelius
Rutgers University
February 14–March 19, 1999
Philip Rosenau
Tel-Aviv University
February 26–March 29, 1999
Fang-Hua Lin
Courant Institute
April 27, 1998–May 25, 1999
Professor Michel Broue
Universite Paris 7
May 2–May 31, 1999
+
1997–98
A. J. de Jong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 12, 1998
Larry Smith
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
March 19–June 15, 1998
Ciprian Foias
Indiana University
March 29–May 2, 1998
V. S. Varadarajan
University of California, Los Angeles
March 30–April 30, 1998
Jurgen Moser
ETH, Zurich
April 1–30, 1998
Gang Tian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+
1996–97
Clifford Earle
Cornell University
September 26–October 26, 1996
Nina Uraltseva
St. Petersburg University, Russia
October 7, 1996
Nikolai Nadirashvili
Institute for Information Transmission Proglems, Moscow
March 10, 1997
Rolf Rannacher
University of Heidelberg, Germany
March 28, 1997
Alexander Olevskii
Tel Aviv University
Ridgway Scott
University of Houston
+
1995–96
Boris Levitan
1995–1996
Kevin Corlette
University of Chicago
February 2, 1996
John Ball
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
March 25, 1996
Joseph Steenbrink
University of Nijmegen
April 1, 1996
Genevieve Raugel
Universite Paris
April 22, 1996
Ian Anderson
Utah State University
April 22, 1996
Jonathan Alperin
University of Chicago
May 1–31, 1996
S. T. Yau
Harvard University
May 6, 1996
Masayasu Mimura
University of Tokyo
May 13, 1996
+
1994–95
George Papanicolaou
Stanford University
Eugene B. Dynkin
Cornell University
Richard Hamilton
University of California, La Jolla
Michael Hopkins
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A. N. Kirillov
V.A. Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Robert Kohn
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
L. A. Peletier
University of Leiden — Leiden, Netherlands
Karl Rubin
Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio
+
1993–94
Pierre Berthelot
Universite de Rennes 1 — Rennes, Brittany, France
Persi Diaconis
Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
Kalus Kirchgassner
University of Stuttgart — Stuttgart, Germany
Jean Lannes
Ecole Polytechnique — Palaiseau, France
Victor Pliss
Leningrad State University — St. Petersburg, Russia
Richard Schoen
Institute for Advanced Study — Princeton, NJ
S.R.S. Varadhan
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University — New York, NY
Masaya Yamaguit
Ryukoku University — Kyoto, Japan
+
1992–93
Michel Broue
Ecole Normale Superieure — Paris, France
Bernard Dwork
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
Wendell Fleming
Brown University — Providence, RI
Raymond Gerard
Universite Louis Pasteur — Strasbourg, Alsace, France
Nancy Kopell
Boston University — Boston, MA
Robert S. Lipster
Institute for Information Transmission Problems — Moscow, Russia
Michael Rapopor
Bergische University — Wuppertal, Germany
+
1991–92
Harry Furstenberg
The Hebrew University — Jerusalem, Isreal
Gene Golub
Stanford University — Stanford, CA
Kazuya Kato
University of Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
Victor Klee
University of Washington — Seattle, WA
Masatake Kuranishi
Columbia University — New York, NY
Jerrold Marsden
University of California — Berkeley, CA
Haynes Miller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
Jurgen Moser
ETH Zentrum - Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich — Zurich, Switzerland
Jean-Pierre Ramis
Universite de Louis Pasteur — Strasbourg, Alsace, France
Professor Seppo Rickman
University of Helsinki — Helsinki, Finland
Professor Alexei Shabat
Landau Institute — Moscow, Russia
+
1990–91
Andrew Avez
University of Paris VI — Paris, France
John Ball
Heriot-Watt University — Edinburgh, Scotland
Enrico Bombieri
Institute for Advanced Study — Princeton, NJ
Luis Caffarelli
Institute for Advanced Study — Princeton, NJ
Gunnar Carlsson
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
Harry Furstenberg
The Hebrew University — Jerusalem, Israel
Morton Gurtin
Carnegie-Mellon University — Pittsburgh, PA
Nicholas Katz
Princeton, University — Princeton, NJ
Bernard Malgrange
University of Grenoble — Grenoble, France
Hiroshi Matano
University of Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
1980s
+
1989–90
Michel Broue
Ecole Normale Superieure — Paris, France
Robert Coleman
University of California, Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
Albrecht Dold
University of Heidelberg — Heidelberg, Germany
Ciprian Foias
Indiana University — Bloomington, IN
Michael Herman
Ecole Polytechnique — Palaiseau, France
Wolfgang Jurkat
Syracuse University — Syracuse, NY
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
Askold Khovanski
USSR Academy of Sciences — Moscow, Russia
Gerard Laumon
Universite de Paris-Sud — Orsay, France
Jurgen Moser
ETH Zentrum - Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich — Zurich, Switzerland
+
1988–89
Richard Beals
Yale University — New Haven, CT
Ivar Ekeland
Universite de Paris-Dauphine — Paris, France
Gerd Faltings
Princeton, University — Princeton, NJ
James Glimm
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University — New York, NY
Nicholas Katz
Princeton, University — Princeton, NJ
Kurt Strebel
University of Zurich — Zurich, Switzerland
+
1987–88
George Andrews
Pennsylvania State University — University Park, PA
Richard Askey
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
Kenneth Ribet
University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, MI
Joel Smoller
University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, MI
Daniel Stroock
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
+
1986–87
Luis Caffarelli
Institute for Advanced Study — Princeton, NJ
James Douglas, Jr.
University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
David Epstein
University of Warwick — Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Harry Furstenberg
Hebrew University — Jerusalem, Israel
Jack Hale
Brown University — Providence, RI
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
Paul Rabinowitz
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI
Srinivasa Varadhan
Courant Institute, New York, NY
+
1985–86
Spencer Bloch
University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
March 1–31, 1986
Bernard Dwork
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
June 1–30, 1986
Harvey Friedman
Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio
March 10–April 11, 1986
Kiyoshi Ito
Gakushuin University — Tokyo, Japan
March 1–June 30, 1986
James Milgram
Stanford University — Stanford, CA
April 10–May 1, 1984
Leon Simon
Australian National University, Australia
April 14-May 14, 1986
+
1984–85
Felix Browder
University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
May 14–June 14, 1985
Constantine Dafermos
Brown University, Providence, RI
March 4–15, 1984 and March 24–April 6, 1985
Bjorn Dahlberg
University of Goteborg — Gothenburg, Sweden
March 16–June 30, 1985
Albrecht Dold
University of Heidelberg — Heidelberg, Germany
February 10–March 10, 1985
David Edmunds
University of Sussex — England, United Kingdom
September 1–15, 1984
Jean-Marc Fontaine
University of Grenoble I — Grenoble, France
November 12–December 11, 1984
Harry Furstenberg
Hebrew University — Jerusalem, Israel
August 27–September 25, 1984
Joseph Keller
Stanford University — Stanford, CA
May 26–April 24, 1985
Jacques-Louis Lions
College of France — Paris, France
May 12–18, 1984
+
1983–84
Shmuel Agmon
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
March 1–30, 1984
Robert Aumann
Hebrew University — Jerusalem, Israel
December 20, 1983–January 29, 1984
Enrico Bombieri
Institute for Advanced Study — Princeton, NJ
May 15–June 15, 1984
Daniel Kleitman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
January 1–31, 1984
Kurt Strebel
University of Zurich — Zurich, Switzerland
September 5–October 17, 1983
John Tate
Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
June 1–30, 1984
S. James Taylor
University of British Columbia — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 31–June 30, 1984
+
1982–83
Jonathan Alperin
University of Chicago — Chicago, IL
March 16–June 15, 1983
Michael Artin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Cambridge, MA
May 11–June 10, 1983
Haim Brezis
University of Paris VI — Paris, France
May 23–June 24, 1983
Charles Conley
University of Wisconsin-Madison — Madison, WI
September 1–30, 1982
Nicholas Katz
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
December 10–17, 1982 and January 13–28, 1983
Blaine Lawson
SUNY, Stony Brook University — Stony Brook, NY
May 15–June 15, 1983
Olli Lehto
University of Helsinki — Helsinki, Finland
September 16–December 15, 1982
Saunders Maclane
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 16–June 15, 1983
Ib Madsen
Aarhus University — Aarhus, Denmark
May 1–31, 1983
+
1981–82
Roberto Conti
University of Florence — Florence, Italy
May 17–June 15, 1982
Bjorn Dahlberg
University of Goteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden
March 30–April 3, 1982
Bernard Dwork
Princeton University — Princeton, NJ
January 3–29, 1982
Jerry Ericksen
Brown University, Providence, RI
June 16–July 15, 1982
Avner Friedman
Northwestern University — Evanston, IL
March 1–April 1,1982
Harry Furstenberg
Hebrew University — Jerusalem, Israel
March 4–April 4,1982
Hans Lewy
University of California, Berkeley — Berkeley, CA
October 1–29,1981
+
1980–81
Lars Ahlfors
Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
September 16–December 15, 1980