Year Name Lecture title 1980 F. Jessie MacWilliams A Survey of Coding Theory 1981 Olga Taussky-Todd The Many Aspects of Pythagorean Triangles 1982 Julia Robinson Functional Equations in Arithmetic 1983 Cathleen S. Morawetz How Do Perturbations of the Wave Equation Work 1984 Mary Ellen Rudin Paracompactness 1985 Jane Cronin Scanlon A Model of Cardiac Fiber: Problems in Singularly Perturbed Systems 1986 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat On Partial Differential Equations of Gauge Theories and General Relativity 1987 Joan S. Birman Studying Links via Braids 1988 Karen K. Uhlenbeck Moment Maps in Stable Bundles: Where Analysis Algebra and Topology Meet 1989 Mary F. Wheeler Large Scale Modeling of Problems Arising in Flow in Porous Media 1990 Bhama Srinivasan The Invasion of Geometry into Finite Group Theory 1991 Alexandra Bellow Almost Everywhere Convergence: The Case for the Ergodic Viewpoint 1992 Nancy Kopell Oscillators and Networks of Them: Which Differences Make a Difference 1993 Linda Keen Hyperbolic Geometry and Spaces of Riemann Surfaces 1994 Lesley Sibner Analysis in Gauge Theory 1995 Judith D. Sally Measuring Noetherian Rings 1996 Olga Oleinik On Some Homogenization Problems for Differential Operators 1997 Linda Preiss Rothschild How Do Real Manifolds Live in Complex Space 1998 Dusa McDuff Symplectic Structures - A New Approach to Geometry 1999 Krystyna M. Kuperberg Aperiodic Dynamical Systems 2000 Margaret H. Wright The Mathematics of Optimization 2001 Sun-Yung Alice Chang Nonlinear Equations in Conformal Geometry 2002 Lenore Blum Computing Over the Reals: Where Turing Meets Newton 2003 Jean Taylor Five Little Crystals and How They Grew 2004 Svetlana Katok Symbolic Dynamics for Geodesic Flows 2005 Lai-Sang Young From Limit Cycles to Strange Attractors 2006 Ingrid Daubechies Mathematical Results and Challenges in Learning Theory 2007 Karen Vogtmann Automorphisms of Groups, Outer Space, and Beyond 2008 Audrey A. Terras Fun With Zeta Functions of Graphs 2009 Fan Chung Graham New Directions in Graph Theory 2010 Carolyn S. Gordon You Can't Hear the Shape of a Manifold 2011 Susan Montgomery Orthogonal Representations: From Groups to Hopf Algebras 2012 Barbara Keyfitz Conservation Laws - Not Exactly a la Noether 2013 Raman Parimala A Hasse principle for quadratic forms over function fields 2014 Georgia Benkart Walking on Graphs the Representation Theory Way 2015 Wen-Ching Winnie Li Modular forms for congruence and noncongruence 2016 Karen E. Smith The Power of Noether's Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Complex Algebraic Varieties 2017 Lisa Jeffrey Cohomology of Symplectic Quotients 2018 Jill Pipher Nonsmooth Boundary Value Problems 2019 Bryna Kra Dynamics of systems with low complexity 2020 Birgit Speh Branching Laws for Representations of Non Compact Orthogonal Groups 2021 Lecture cancelled in 2021 (see above[1]) 2022 Marianna Csörnyei The Kakeya needle problem for rectifiable sets References:[4][5][6]