Taft Lectures
The Charles P. Taft Memorial Fund sponsors a program of public lectures each year, including one or more in mathematics. These lectures feature prominent mathematicians speaking on recent important developments in their field. Each lecturer usually
gives two lectures on consecutive days. The first lecture is aimed at a fairly general audience while the second tends to include more specialized material. The Taft Lectures are free and open to the public.
2006 - 2007
Professor Alan F. Karr
Director, National Institute of Statistical Science
What is Data Confidentiality and Why Should I Care?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
4 - 5 PM
800 Swift Hall
Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
10 - 11 AM
500 Swift Hall
Professor Tom Korner
University of Cambridge
March 30 - 31, 2006
Mathematics and Smallpox
Does Order Matter?
Professor Andrew Yao
2000 Turing Award Winner
June 1 - 2, 2005
An Expedition into Modern Cryptography
Vistas in Quantum Computing
Professor Avner Friedman, Director
Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Ohio State University
November 18 - 19, 2004
How useful is mathematics to the biosciences?
Mathematical models in tumor growth