The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2006. As part of this celebration PIMS is hosting a series of lectures by distinguished scientists across its several sites. For a list of all the lectures, see www.pims.math.ca/PIMS_10th_Anniversary_Activities.

The lecturers at the University of Washington are listed below, with lecturers hosted by departments other than Mathematics listed as such:

Gregory Lawler
University of Chicago
October 24th, 2006
Conformal Invariance and Two-dimensional Statistical Physics

Peter Bickel
(Statistics)
University of California, Berkeley
October 30th, 2006
Regularized Covariance Matrix Estimation

Bin Yu
(Statistics)
University of California, Berkeley
November 20th, 2006
Feature Selection Through Lasso: Model Selection Consistency and the Blasso Algorithm

Steven Smale
(Applied Math)
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
January 9th, 2007
Topology, Data and Vision
January 10th, 2007
Emergence and Flocking

Klaus Schmidt
University of Vienna
January 11th, 2007
On Some of the Differences Between Z and Z² in Dynamics

Jim Zidek
(Statistics)
University of British Columbia
January 29th, 2007
Statistical Modeling in Setting Air Quality Standards

Peter Lax
Courant Institute
March 30th, 2007
A Phragmen-Lindelof and Saint Venant Principle in Harmonic Analysis

Elliott Lieb
(Applied Math)
Princeton University
April 9th, 2007
The Dilute, Cold Bose Gas: A Truly Quantum-mechanical Many-body Problem
April 10th, 2007
Quantum Mechanics, the Stability of Matter, and Quantum Electrodynamics

Carlos Kenig
University of Chicago
April 17th, 2007
Recent Developments on the Well-posedness of Dispersive Equations

Peter Winkler
Dartmouth College
April 19th, 2007
Scheduling, Percolation, and the Worm Order

Richard Schoen
Stanford University
April 24th, 2007
The Sharp Isoperimetric Inequality on Minimal Submanifolds

Chris Jones
(Applied Math)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
May 8th, 2007
Going with Flow and Updating Ocean Models

Frances Kirwan
University of Oxford
May 9th, 2007
Classification Problems in Algebraic Geometry
May 11th, 2007
Non-reductive Group Actions and Symplectic Implosion

Leo Kadanoff
(Applied Math)
University of Chicago
May 22nd, 2007

Shrawan Kumar
University of North Carolina
May 22nd, 2007
Eigenvalue Problem and a New Product in Cohomology of Flag Varieties

Kari Astala
University of Helsinki
July 12th, 2007
Mappings of Finite Distortion: Analysis in the Extreme