Christie Lectures
The Christie Lecture was introduced by the Northeastern Section in 1979 to honor Dan Christie (1915-1975) of Bowdoin College. He was one of the founding fathers of the Section, serving two terms as Chair and one as Governor. He was also quite involved in the MAA on the national level.
The following is taken from Spring 1979 Newsletter: "The Christie Lecture will be given by a distinguished member of the mathematical community and is part of the annual (Fall) meeting. The topic of the lecture will be an issue of current importance in mathematics. And, although the Section is rich in people who have made contributions to research and teaching, the choice of the Christie Lecturer is not restricted to a member of the Section."
Previous Christie Lectures
| 1979 | John Milnor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Is the Universe Simply-Connected? |
| 1980 | Gian-Carlo Rota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Fall and Rise of Invarient Theory |
| 1981 | John T. Tate, Harvard University Number Theory on Elliptic Curves – Old Theorems and Recent Conjectures |
| 1982 | John Wermer, Brown University The Maximum Principle and Analytic Functions |
| 1983 | Henry O. Pollak, Bell Laboratories On the Addressing Problem in Loop Switching, or, How to Embed an Arbitrary Graph in a Squashed Cube |
| 1984 | Phillip J. Davis, Brown University When Mathematics Says No; The Nature of Impossibilities in Mathematics |
| 1985 | Albert W. Tucker, Princeton University The Cornerstone of Matrix Algebra |
| 1986 | Ernst Snapper, Dartmouth College What Do We Do When We Do Mathematics? |
| 1987 | Reuben Hersch, University of New Mexico The Social Responsibility of Mathematicians |
| 1988 | Ron Graham, AT&T Bell Laboratories Universal Cycles for Combinatorial Structures |
| 1989 | Paul A. Schweitzer,, Boston College Elementary Knot Theory and Computation |
| 1990 | John H. Conway, Princeton University Mathematics and Games |
| 1991 | Rodica Simion, George Washington University A Few gems, Old and New |
| 1992 | Peter Hilton, SUNY at Binghamton A Further Look at Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers |
| 1993 | Jim Tattersall, Providence College The Early History of the Lucasian Chair |
| 1994 | Robert Rosenbaum. Wesleyan University A Balancing Act |
| 1995 | Doris Schattschneder, Moravian College Ingenious Mathematical Amateurs – M.C. Escher (artist) and Marjorie Rice (homemaker) |
| 1996 | Roger Cooke, University of Vermont N.N. Luzin’s Notebooks on the Mysteries of Set Theory |
| 1997 | Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin Mathematics for Future Lawyers, Legislators, and Business Leaders |
| 1998 | Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cosine Transforms and Wavelet Transforms and Applications |
| 1999 | Charles Hadlock, Bentley College Looking at Classical Mathematics Through Smoke and Haze |
| 2000 | Edward B. Burger, Williams College Personal Thoughts on How to Teach and What Not to Teach |
| 2001 | Richard K. Guy, University of Calgary Math From Fun and Fun From Math |
| 2002 | Carl Pomerance, Bell Laboratories Primal Screens |
| 2003 | Lisa Humphrys, Rhode Island College Exploring Uncharted Territory in Forced ODE’s: Strange and Counterintuitive Periodic Solutions |
| 2004 | Ezra Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Elliptic Curves: The Silver Bullets of Modern Mathematics |
| 2005 | Dusa McDuff, SUNY at Stony Brook Symplectic Topology Today |
| 2006 | Jennifer Beineke, Western New England College Great Moments of the Riemann Zeta Function |
| 2007 | Thomas Garrity, Williams College Using Mathematical Maturity to Shape Our Courses, Our Curriculums and Our Careers |
| 2008 | David Bressoud, Macalester College Calculus as a High School Course |
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