The Rankin and Sneddon Lectures
The then Department of Mathematics held Colloquium talks for many decades, inviting speakers to talk to a general mathematical audience about their research, and speakers such as Prof Sir Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh), Prof Persi Diaconnis (Stanford) and Prof Jon Baez (California, Riverside) gave talks.
After the School of Mathematics and Statistics was formed, the School launched its Rankin-Sneddon Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematics, named after two of the major figures in the history of mathematics in Glasgow in the 20th Century:
- Prof Robert Rankin (appointed in 1954, retiring in 1982);
- Prof Ian Sneddon (appointed in 1956, retiring in 1985).
Recent Rankin-Sneddon Lectures (in pure and applied mathematics)
- 2024 Prof John Ockendon, FRS
University of Oxford
The Symbiosis in Mathematics-in-Industry
Recording available - 2024 Prof Tim Austin
University of Warwick
Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory - 2023 Prof Ursula Martin CBE FREng FRSE
University of Edinburgh / University of Oxford
The Social Machine of Mathematics - 2023 Prof Akshay Venkatesh FRS
Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Fourier interpolation and the Weil representation - 2022 Prof John Hinch, FRS
University of Cambridge
Oldroyd B, and not A?
Recording available - 2022 Prof Douglas Ravenel
University of Rochester
What is the telescope conjecture? A walking tour of modern homotopy theory
Recording available - 2021 Prof Alfio Quarteroni
Politecnico di Milano and EPFL, Lausanne
The Beat of Math
Recording available - 2021 Prof Robert Guralnick
University of Southern California
Finite Simple Groups - Classification and Applications - 2020 Prof Carlos Matheus Silva Santos
CNRS, Paris
Billiards - 2020 Prof Robert MacKay, FRS FInstP FIMA
University of Warwick
How directed is a directed network?