Karl Menger Lecture Archive

Menger Lecture: “A Mathematical Tour of the Molecular Biology of the Cell,” Featuring Lior Pachter

March 13, 2025
You're invited to the Menger Lecture in honor of the late Karl Menger from 6–7: 15 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2025, at the MTCC Auditorium. Professor Lior Pachter, Bren Professor of Computational Biology, California Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "A Mathematical Tour of the Molecular Biology of the Cell." Several events in honor of Menger will be held April 10-11.
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Karl Menger Lecture and Awards March 5-6, 2020

February 20, 2020
Russel Caflisch, director and professor of mathematics of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, will be this year's featured speaker of the Department of Applied Mathematics’ 13th annual Karl Menger Lecture and Awards.
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Stanford’s Persi Diaconis Is Applied Mathematics’ 10th Annual Karl Menger Lecturer

March 24, 2017
The Department of Applied Mathematics will host Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University, as the 2017 Karl Menger Lecturer.
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Karl Menger Celebration – March 28-29

March 28, 2016
Thomas Yizhao Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, will present the 2016 Karl Menger Lecture on Monday, March 28 at 3:15 p.m. in The McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC) Auditorium.
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