The Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectures

The American Mathematical Society established the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship in 1923.The Society chooses speakers with a known ability to deliver lectures which are understandable by non-mathematicians.The aim is to make people aware of the importance and the impact of mathematics on the world in which we live.The lectures are given annually, but there have been a few years since the series began when no lecture was given.Below is a complete list of the lecture.

	Month and year	Venue	Lecturer	Title.
1	February 1924	New York City, NY	Michael I Pupin	Coordination.
2	December 1924	Washington, DC	Robert Henderson	Life insurance as a social science and as a mathematical problem.
3	December 1925	Kansas City, MO	James Pierpont	Some modern views of space.
4	December 1926	Philadelphia, PA	Horatio B Williams	Mathematics and the biological sciences.
5	December 1927	Nashville, TN	Ernest W Brown	Resonance in the solar system.
6	December 1928	New York City, NY	G H Hardy	An introduction to the theory of numbers.
[G H Hardy was unable to give his lecture in person due to illness, so H W Brinkmann presented Hardy's lecture.]
7	December 1929	Des Moines, IA	Irving Fisher	The applications of mathematics to the social sciences.
8	December 1930	Cleveland, OH	Edwin B Wilson	Reminiscences of Gibbs by a student and colleague.
9	December 1931	New Orleans, LA	Percy W Bridgman	Statistical mechanics and the second law of thermodynamics.
10	December 1932	Atlantic City, NJ	Richard C Tolman	Thermodynamics and relativity.
11	December 1934	Pittsburgh, PA	Albert Einstein	An elementary proof of the theorem concerning the equivalence of mass and energy.
12	January 1935	St Louis, MO	Vannevar Bush	Instrumental analysis.
13	October 1936	New York City, NY	Henry Norris Russell	Model stars.
14	December 1937	Indianapolis, IN	Charles August Kraus	The present status of the theory of electrolytes.
15	December 1939	Columbus, OH	Theodore von Kármán	The engineer grapples with nonlinear problems.
16	September 1941	Chicago, IL	Sewall Wright	Statistical genetics and evolution.
17	November 1943	Chicago, IL	Harry Bateman	The control of elastic fluids.
18	November 1944	Chicago, IL	John von Neumann	The ergodic theorem and statistical mechanics.
19	November 1945	Chicago, IL	John Clarke Slater	Physics and the wave equation.
20	November 1946	Swarthmore, PA	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	The transfer of radiation in stellar atmosphere.
21	December 1947	Athens, GA	Philip McCord Morse	Mathematical problems in operations research.
22	December 1948	Columbus, OH	Hermann Weyl	Ramifications, old and new, of the eigenvalue problem.
23	December 1949	New York City, NY	Norbert Wiener	Problems of sensory prosthesis.
24	December 1950	Gainesville, FL	George E Uhlenbeck	Some basic problems of statistical mechanics.
25	December 1951	Providence, RI	Kurt Gödel	Some basic theorems on the foundations of mathematics and their philosophical implications.
26	December 1952	St Louis, MO	Marston Morse	Topology and geometrical analysis.
27	December 1953	Baltimore, MD	Wassily Leontief	Mathematics in economics.
28	December 1954	Pittsburgh, PA	Kurt O Friedrichs	Asymptotic phenomena in mathematical physics.
29	December 1955	Houston, TX	Joseph E Meyer	The structure of simple fields.
30	December 1956	Rochester, NY	Marshall H Stone	Mathematics and the future of science.
31	January 1958	Cincinnati, OH	Hermann J Muller	Evolution by mutation.
32	January 1959	Philadelphia, PA	Johannes M Burgers	On the emergence of patterns of order.
33	January 1960	Chicago, IL	Julian Schwinger	Quantum field theory.
34	January 1961	Washington, DC	James J Stoker	Some nonlinear problems in elasticity.
35	January 1962	Cincinnati, OH	Chen Ning Yang	Symmetry principles in modern physics.
36	January 1963	Berkeley, CA	Claude E Shannon	Information theory.
37	January 1964	Miami, FA	Lars Onsager	Mathematical problems of cooperative phenomena.
38	January 1965	Denver, CO	Derrick H Lehmer	Mechanical mathematics.
39	January 1966	Chicago, IL	Martin Schwarzschild	Stellar evolution.
40	January 1967	Houston, TX	Mark Kac	Some mathematical problems in the theory of phase transitions.
41	January 1968	San Francisco, CA	Eugene P Wigner	Problems of symmetry in old and new physics.
42	January 1969	New Orleans, LA	Raymond L Wilder	Trends and social implications of research.
43	January 1970	San Antonio, TX	Walter H Munk	Tides and time.
44	January 1971	Atlantic City, NJ	Eberhard F F Hopf	Ergodic theory and the geodesic flow on surfaces of constant negative curvature.
45	January 1972	Las Vegas, ND	Freeman J Dyson	Missed opportunities.
46	January 1973	Dallas, TX	Jürgen Moser	The stability concept in dynamical systems.
47	January 1974	San Francisco, CA	Paul A Samuelson	Economics and mathematical analysis.
48	January 1975	Washington, DC	Fritz John	A priori estimates, geometric effects, and asymptotic behavior.
49	January 1976	San Antonio, TX	Arthur S Wightman	Nonlinear functional analysis and some of its applications in quantum field theory.
50	January 1977	St Louis, MO	Joseph B Keller	Rays, waves, and asymptotics.
51	January 1978	Atlanta, GA	Donald E Knuth	Mathematical typography.
52	January 1979	Biloxi, MS	Martin Kruskal	"What are solitons and inverse scattering anyway, and why should I care?"
53	January 1980	San Antonio, TX	Kenneth Wilson	The statistical continuum limit.
54	January 1981	San Francisco, CA	Cathleen S Morawetz	The mathematical approach to the sound barrier.
55	January 1982	Cincinnati, OH	Elliott W Montroll	The dynamics and evolution of some sociotechnical systems.
56	January 1983	Denver, CO	Samuel Karlin	Mathematical models and controversies of evolutionary theory.
57	January 1984	Louisville, KY	Herbert A Simon	Computer modeling of the processes of scientific and mathematical discovery.
58	January 1985	Anaheim, CA	Michael O Rabin	Randomization in mathematics and computer science.
59	January 1986	New Orleans, LA	Laurence E Scriven	The third leg: Mathematics and computation in applicable science and high technology.
60	January 1987	San Antonio, TX	Thomas C Spencer	Schrödinger operators and dynamical systems.
61	January 1988	Atlanta, GA	David P Ruelle	How natural is our mathematics? The example of equilibrium statistical mechanics.
62	January 1989	Phoenix, AZ	Elliott H Lieb	The stability of matter: from atoms to stars.
63	January 1990	Louisville, KY	George B Dantzig	The wide wide world of pure mathematics that goes by other names.
64	January 1991	San Francisco, CA	Michael Atiyah	Physics and the mysteries of space.
65	January 1992	Baltimore, MD	Michael E Fisher	Approaching the limit: Mathematics and myth in statistical physics.
66	January 1993	San Antonio, TX	Charles S Peskin	Fluid dynamics and fiber architecture of the heart and its valves.
67	January 1994	Cincinnati, OH	Robert M May	Necessity and chance: Deterministic chaos in ecology and evolution.
68	January 1995	San Francisco, CA	Andrew J Majda	Turbulence, turbulent diffusion, and modern applied mathematics.
69	January 1996	Orlando, FL	Steven Weinberg	Is field theory the answer? Is string theory the answer? What was the question?
70	January 1997	San Diego, CA	Persi Diaconis	Patterns in eigenvalues.
71	January 1998	Baltimore, MD	Edward Witten	M-Theory.
72	January 1999	San Antonio, TX	Nancy J Kopell	We got rhythm: Dynamical systems of the nervous system.
73	January 2000	Washington, DC	Roger Penrose	Physics, computability, and mentality.
74	January 2001	New Orleans, LA	Ronald L Graham	The Steiner problem.
75	January 2002	San Diego, CA	Michael V Berry	Making light of mathematics.
76	January 2003	Baltimore, MD	David B Mumford	The shape of objects in two and three dimensions: Mathematics meets computer vision.
77	January 2004	Phoenix, AZ	Eric S Lander	Biology as information.
78	January 2005	Atlanta, GA	Ingrid Daubechies	The interplay between analysis and algorithms.
79	January 2006	San Antonio, TX	Michael Savageau	Function, Design and Evolution of Gene Circuitry.
80	January 2007	New Orleans, LA	Peter D Lax	Mathematics and Physics.
81	January 2008	San Diego, CA	Avi Wigderson	Randomness - A computational complexity view.
82	January 2009	Washington, DC	Percy Deift	Integrable systems: a modern view.
83	January 2010	San Francisco, CA	Peter W Shor	Quantum channels and their capacities.
84	January 2011	New Orleans, LA	George Papanicolaou	Mathematical Problems in Systematic Risk.
85	January 2012	Boston, MA	Bradley Efron	A 250-year argument: Belief, behavior, and the bootstrap.
86	January 2013	San Diego, CA	Cédric Villani	On Disorder, Mixing and Equilibration.
87	January 2014	Baltimore, MD	Andrew Blake	Machines that see, powered by probability.
88	January 2015	San Antonio, TX	Ronald Graham	Mathematics and computers: problems and prospects.
89	January 2016	Seattle, WA	Daniel A Spielman	Graphs, Vectors, and Matrices .
90	January 2017	Atlanta, GA	John Preskill	Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier.
91	January 2018	San Diego, CA	Cynthia Dwork	Privacy in the Land of Plenty.
92	January 2019	Baltimore, MD	Alan S Perelson	Immunology for Mathematicians.
93	January 2020	Denver, CO	Nancy Reid	In praise of small data: statistical and data science .
94	January 2021	Virtual	Lenka Zdeborová	What Physics Teaches us about Computation in High Dimensions.
95	April 2022	Virtual	Eitan Tadmor	Emergent Behavior in Collective Dynamics
96	January 2023	Boston, MA	Richard Baraniuk	The Mathematics of Deep Learning.