The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences". The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the annual lectures in 1980 as the Emmy Noether Lectures, in honor of one of the leading mathematicians of her time. In 2013 it was renamed the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and since 2015 is sponsored jointly with the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The recipient delivers the lecture at the yearly American Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January.[1]
The ICM Emmy Noether Lecture is an additional lecture series, sponsored by the International Mathematical Union. Beginning in 1994 this lecture was delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years. In 2010 the lecture series was made permanent.[2]
The 2021 Noether Lecture was supposed to have been given by Andrea Bertozzi of UCLA, but it was cancelled. The cancellation was made during the George Floyd protests: "This decision comes as many of this nation rise up in protest over racial discrimination and brutality by police".[3] Although she intended to speak on other topics, Bertozzi is known for research on the mathematics of policing,[4] and in a letter to the AMS, Sol Garfunkel concluded that "the reason for her exclusion was one of her areas of research".[5] In an official blog of the AMS, a group calling themselves The Just Mathematics Collective called for a boycott of mathematical collaborations with police, dismissing Garfunkel's letter as "intended to further dismiss the boycott" and celebrating the cancellation of Bertozzi's lecture.[6]
| Year | Name | Lecture title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | A Survey of Coding Theory | ||
| 1981 | The Many Aspects of Pythagorean Triangles | ||
| 1982 | Functional Equations in Arithmetic | ||
| 1983 | How Do Perturbations of the Wave Equation Work | ||
| 1984 | Paracompactness | ||
| 1985 | A Model of Cardiac Fiber: Problems in Singularly Perturbed Systems | ||
| 1986 | On Partial Differential Equations of Gauge Theories and General Relativity | ||
| 1987 | Studying Links via Braids | ||
| 1988 | Moment Maps in Stable Bundles: Where Analysis Algebra and Topology Meet | ||
| 1989 | Large Scale Modeling of Problems Arising in Flow in Porous Media | ||
| 1990 | The Invasion of Geometry into Finite Group Theory | ||
| 1991 | Almost Everywhere Convergence: The Case for the Ergodic Viewpoint | ||
| 1992 | Oscillators and Networks of Them: Which Differences Make a Difference | ||
| 1993 | Hyperbolic Geometry and Spaces of Riemann Surfaces | ||
| 1994 | Analysis in Gauge Theory | ||
| 1995 | Measuring Noetherian Rings | ||
| 1996 | On Some Homogenization Problems for Differential Operators | ||
| 1997 | How Do Real Manifolds Live in Complex Space | ||
| 1998 | Symplectic Structures - A New Approach to Geometry | ||
| 1999 | Aperiodic Dynamical Systems | ||
| 2000 | The Mathematics of Optimization | ||
| 2001 | Nonlinear Equations in Conformal Geometry | ||
| 2002 | Computing Over the Reals: Where Turing Meets Newton | ||
| 2003 | Five Little Crystals and How They Grew | ||
| 2004 | Symbolic Dynamics for Geodesic Flows | ||
| 2005 | From Limit Cycles to Strange Attractors | ||
| 2006 | Mathematical Results and Challenges in Learning Theory | ||
| 2007 | Automorphisms of Groups, Outer Space, and Beyond | ||
| 2008 | Fun With Zeta Functions of Graphs | ||
| 2009 | New Directions in Graph Theory | ||
| 2010 | You Can't Hear the Shape of a Manifold | ||
| 2011 | Orthogonal Representations: From Groups to Hopf Algebras | ||
| 2012 | Conservation Laws - Not Exactly a la Noether | ||
| 2013 | A Hasse principle for quadratic forms over function fields | ||
| 2014 | Walking on Graphs the Representation Theory Way | ||
| 2015 | Modular forms for congruence and noncongruence | ||
| 2016 | The Power of Noether's Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Complex Algebraic Varieties | ||
| 2017 | Cohomology of Symplectic Quotients | ||
| 2018 | Nonsmooth Boundary Value Problems | ||
| 2019 | Dynamics of systems with low complexity | ||
| 2020 | Branching Laws for Representations of Non Compact Orthogonal Groups | ||
| 2021 | Lecture cancelled in 2021 (see above) | ||
| 2022 | The Kakeya needle problem for rectifiable sets | ||
| 2023 | Rigidity and uniformity in algebraic dynamics | ||
| 2024 | The Ubiquity of Crystal Bases | ||
| References:[7] [8] [9] | |||
| Year | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | ||
| 1998 | ||
| 2002 | Hesheng Hu | |
| 2006 | ||
| 2010 | Idun Reiten | |
| 2014 | Georgia Benkart | |
| 2018 | Sun-Yung Alice Chang | |
| 2022 | Marie-France Vignéras | |
| References: [10] | ||