Euler Lecture
The Euler Lecture is a mathematics lecture given at an annual event at the University of Potsdam. The event, initiated in 1993, is organized by the Universität Potsdam, Institut for Mathematik, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, and the with the assistance of several other organizations, including the Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, the Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mathematic, the Zuse-Institut Berlin, and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung. The mathematical lecturer is selected by a distinguished jury. The event also contains a historical lecture and a musical program supporting the event.
The Euler Lecture is named in honor of Leonhard Euler, who spent the years from 1741 to 1766 in Berlin and during that time wrote approximately 380 works. Among other things, Euler worked for many years as director of the mathematics section at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and as a consultant at the court of Frederick the Great in Potsdam.
The Euler Lecture should not be confused with the Ulf von Euler Lecture, an annual lecture sponsored by the Karolinska Institute and named in honor of the Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler.
Euler Lecture
The organizers of the Euler Lecture maintain an archive of lectures starting in 1993.| Year | Lecturer | Lecture Title |
| 2023 | Avi Wigderson | The Value of Error in Proofs |
| 2022 | Wolfgang Lück | A Panorama of L2-Invariants |
| 2021 | Fernando Codá Marques | Morse Theory for the Area |
| 2019 | Claire Voisin | Some Aspects of Algebraic Geometry |
| 2018 | Emmanuel Candès | Sailing Through Data: Discoveries and Mirages |
| 2017 | Alfio Quarteroni | Taking Mathematics to the Heart |
| 2016 | Yuri Manin | Time between real and imaginary: Big Bang and modular curves |
| 2015 | Cédric Villani | Of particles, stars, and eternity |
| 2014 | Martin Hairer | Taming infinities |
| 2013 | David Eisenbud | Syzygies from Cayley to Kontsevich and beyond |
| 2012 | Simon Brendle | Der Satz von Alexandrov in gekrümmten Räumen |
| 2011 | Timothy Gowers | The internet and new ways of doing mathematics |
| 2010 | Wendelin Werner | Zufall und Stabilität |
| 2009 | Hendrik W. Lenstra | Modelling finite fields |
| 2008 | Michael J. Hopkins | How topologists count things |
| 2007 | Euler und die Analysis | |
| 2006 | Noga Alon | Graphs, Euler's theorem, Grothendieck's inequality and Szemerédi's regularity lemma |
| 2005 | Persi Diaconis | From order to chaos with a blink of an epsilon: phase transitions and Markov chains |
| 2004 | Ludwig Faddeev | The Clay Millennium Problem on quantum Yang-Mills theory |
| 2003 | David Mumford | Metrics in the space of "shapes": Computer vision meets Riemannian geometry |
| 2002 | Michael Atiyah | Polyhedra in geometry, physics and chemistry |
| 2001 | Wolfgang M. Schmidt | Diophantische Approximationen, Diophantische Gleichungen und linear rekurrierte Folgen |
| 2000 | Thomas C. Hales | Cannonballs and honeycombs: The proof of the Kepler conjecture |
| 1999 | Don Zagier | Von Ramanujans falschen Thetafunktionen zu Quanteninvarianten |
| 1998 | Ingrid Daubechies | Surfing with wavelets |
| 1997 | Haïm Brézis | Singularities and quantization effects for the Ginzburg-Landau equation |
| 1996 | László Lovász | Graphs and their geometric representation |
| 1995 | Armand Borel | Zeta function at integers in analysis and topology |
| 1994 | Roger Penrose | The complex structure of the universe |
| 1993 | Raoul Bott | Invariants of manifolds |