Chelluri Lecture Series

The Chelluri Lecture series is offered in memory of Thyagaraju (Raju) Chelluri, who graduated magna cum laude from Cornell with a Bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1999. Raju was a brilliant student, a gifted scholar, and a wonderful human being who died on August 21, 2004 at the age of 26, shortly after completing all requirements for the Ph.D. in Mathematics at Rutgers University. He wrote a thesis called Equidistribution of the Roots of Quadratic Congruences under the supervision of H. Iwaniec and was awarded a Ph.D. posthumously.

The Chelluri Lecture Endowment was established in 2004 with support from family and friends of Thyagaraju (Raju) Chelluri. Each year, a distinguished mathematician will be invited to give the Chelluri Lecture.

Upcoming Lectures

The next lecture in the series is expected in April 2019. Information will be posted here as it becomes available. 

If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Heather Peterson.

Previous Lectures in the Series

• Mike Hopkins, Harvard University:
  Homotopy Theory and its Many Roles in Mathematics (2018)
• Daniel Wise, McGill University:
  The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups (2017)
• Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA:
  Mathematics of Crime (2016)
• Daniel Rockmore, Dartmouth College:
  Reading, Writing, and 'Rithmetic: Two tales of mathematical and evolutionary explorations of text (2015)
• Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University:
  Numerical Patterns and Chaos (2014)
• Peter Sarnak, Princeton University:
  The Matrix Groups and Diophantine Analysis (2013)
• Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University:
  From Continued Fractions to Modular Forms (2012)
• Persi Diaconis, Stanford University:
  The Search for Randomness (2011)
• Joe Gallian, University of Minnesota:
  Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns (2010)
• Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University:
  Einstein's Equations, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves (2009)
• Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester:
  Cloaking Devices, Electromagnetic Wormholes, and Transformation Optics (2008)
• Kenneth Ribet, University of California at Berkeley:
  Recent Progress on Serre's Conjecture (2007)
• Dan Goldston, San Jose State University:
  Are There Infinitely Many Twin Primes? (2006)