Math Awareness Month is held each year in March or April. Its goal is to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics. To that end, Cornell's Department of Mathematics sponsors an annual Math Awareness Month public lecture. To learn more about Awareness Month and its history, go to: https://ww2.amstat.org/mathstatmonth
Math Awareness Month Public Lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The Math Department's Math Awareness Public Lecture Series is coordinating with the Professor-at-Large program in presenting a joint talk held on April 14th from 5:00-6:00 in 200 Baker Lab auditorium. A reception will follow in Baker Portico in the adjacent Physical Science Building from 6:00-7:00.
Speaker: Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Cornell University Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large. You can find information on Professor Ellenberg's visit and the PAL schedule of events by visiting the PAL Program.
More information is forthcoming including title/abstract and poster.
Campus and parking information:
- https://www.cornell.edu/about/maps/
- https://fcs.cornell.edu/services/parking-transportation
For accessibility/accommodations contact Heather Peterson.
Previous Lectures in the Series
- Moon Duchin, Cornell University (Poster), 2025
- Tim Charter, Davidson College (Poster), 2024
- Professor Hugh Bray, Duke University (Math Awareness Month Poster), 2023
- William Dunham, Bryn Mawr College (On the Shoulders of Newton , 2022
- Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania (The Meanings of Illustrations), 2021
- David Swart, Mathematical Artist (The Delightful Geometry of Soccer Balls), 2019
- The speaker's slide presentation is available. Notes: *Some of the images are not David's (those are tagged with image credit.) *Anyone may use any of David's figures, just please give him image credit (image rights are not granted for commercial purposes.)
- Bobby Kleinberg, Cornell University (Card Games, Inevitable Patterns, and Computation), 2018
- A full video recording of Prof. Bobby Kleinberg's talk is available via video on demand.
- Alberto A. Martínez, University of Texas at Austin (Pythagoras and Other Fictions: Do we need them in math?), 2017
- Lionel Levine, Cornell University (The Future of Prediction), 2016
- David S. Ross, Rochester Institute of Technology (Careers in Math: What They Are, What They Should Be), 2015
- John Maceli, Ithaca College (What is Mathematical Magic?), 2014
- David Shmoys, Cornell University (Computational Sustainability: An algorithmic lens for better decision-making), 2013
- Paul Velleman, Cornell University: Surfing the Data Deluge (2012)
- John Hubbard, Cornell University: The Price of Anarchy (2011)
- Allen Knutson, Cornell University: The Mathematics of Juggling (2010)
- Christopher Danforth, University of Vermont; Thomas Pfaff, Ithaca College; Zellman Warhaft, Cornell University; and Mary Lou Zeeman, Cornell University and Bowdoin College: Mathematics and Climate (2009)
- Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University: What a Difference a Procedure Makes: Scoring Rules in Politics and Sports (2008)
- David Field, Cornell University: Unraveling the Knot of our Sensory Experience (2007)
- Graeme Bailey, Cornell University: Keeping and Sharing Secrets (2006)
- John Hubbard, Cornell University: Order and Chaos in the Solar System (2005)
- Steven Strogatz, Cornell University: Sync (2004)
- Warwick Tucker, Cornell University: Using a Computer to do Rigorous Mathematics (2002)
- Robert Connelly, Cornell University: How to Unfold a Carpenter's Rule in the Plane (2001)
- John Hubbard, Cornell University: Chaos, Complication and Control (2000)