Battles Lectures
The Frank Battles Lecture Series was established by the Northeastern Section in 1998 to honor Frank Battles' ten years of service as Newsletter Editor for the Section and his many other services to the Section. The Battles Lecture is given annually at the Spring meeting of the Section by an outstanding communicator of Mathematics.
Previous Battles Lectures
| 1998 | James J. Tattersall, Providence College Nichomachus rides again |
| 1999 | Robert L. Devaney, Boston University Chaos, Fractals, and the Internet |
| 2000 | Joseph Gallian, University of Minnesota - Duluth The Mathematics of Identification Numbers |
| 2001 | Thomas Banchoff, Brown University From Providence To Portugal: Surfaces Beyond The Third Dimension On The Internet |
| 2002 | Thomas C. Hales, University of Pittsburgh Computer and Proof in the Context of Discrete Geometry |
| 2003 | Michael Rosen, Brown University Number Theory with Polynomials |
| 2004 | Frank Farris , Santa Clara University Forbidden Symmetry - Relaxing the Crystallographic Restriction |
| 2005 | Frank Morgan, Williams College Double Bubbles and Gauss Space |
| 2006 | Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross An equation runs through it: River running on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon - history, current practice, and the role of a mathematician |
| 2007 | Jim Henle, Smith College Squaring the Plane |
| 2008 | Christopher Danforth, Univeristy of Vermont Chaos and the Mathematics of Prediction: Hurricane Katrina, Harry Potter, and Happiness |
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