Levi L. Conant Lecture Series
This lecture series is named after Levi L. Conant, former head of the Mathematics Department and WPI President. Known for numerous published works and his contributions to the American Mathematics Society, AMS created an award in his honor to recognize his achievements.
Levi L. Conant Lectures
| Award Year | Award Recipient | Date of Talk | Title of Talk (click to play video) |
| 2024 | Jennifer Hom | Sept. 13, 2024 | Getting a handle on low-dimensional topology |
| 2023 | Joshua Greene | Mar. 24, 2023 | "Heegaard Floer homology" |
| 2022 | Andrej Bauer | Feb. 10, 2023 | "Exploring Strange New Worlds of Mathematics" |
| 2021 | Dan Margalit | Mar. 18, 2022 | "Juggling numbers and geometry" |
| 2020 | Amie Wilkinson | Oct. 29, 2021 | "Dynamical Symmetry" |
| 2019 | Alex Wright | Nov. 12, 2021 | "Random surfaces and random graphs" |
| 2018 | Henry L. Cohn | Nov. 2, 2018 | "A conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing" |
| 2017 | David Bailey | Sept. 15, 2017 | "Computation and analysis of arbitrary digits of Pi and other mathematical constants" |
| 2016 | Daniel Rothman | Sept. 23, 2016 | “Earth’s Carbon Cycle: A Mathematical Perspective” |
| 2015 | Jeffrey Lagarias | Dec. 4, 2015 | "Packing space with regular tetrahedra" |
| 2014 | Alex Kontorovich | Mar. 20, 2015 | "On spheres and bowls of integers" |
| 2013 | John Huerta | Apr. 18, 2014 | "Symmetry in mathematics and physics" |
| 2011 | David Vogan Jr. | Sept. 15, 2011 | "The character table of E8(ℝ)" |
| 2010 | Bryna Kra | Nov. 4, 2010 | "Patterns in the primes" |
| 2009 | John W. Morgan | Mar. 26, 2010 | "Solution of the Poincaré Conjecture" |
| 2009 | Avi Wigderson | Sept. 24, 2009 | "Expander Graphs: -A playground for algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and computer science" |
| 2008 | J. Brian Conroy | Mar. 30, 2009 | "The Riemann Hypotheses - A million dollary Mystery" |
| 2007 | Jeffrey Weeks | Mar. 24, 2008 | "The Shape of Space" |