J. Sutherland Frame Lectures

2024 Trachette Jackson – Mobilizing Mathematics for the Fight Against Cancer

2023 Edray Goins – Distance Makes the Math Grow Deeper: Rational Distance Sets, Nate Dean, and Me

2021 Florian Luca – Arithmetic and Digits

2020 – MathFest canceled

2019 Alice Silverberg – Alice in Numberland – Adventures in Cryptography, Number Theory, and Life

2018 Peter Winkler – The Singular Uniformity of Large Random Systems

2017 Ingrid Daubechies – Bones and Teeth – Analyzing Shapes for Evolutionary Biology

2016 Robin Wilson – Combinatorics – The Math That Counts

2015 Noam Elkies – G-Sharp, A-Flat, and the Euclidean Algorithm

2014 Keith Devlin –  Fibonacci and the First Personal Computing Revolution

2013 Gilbert Strang – Matrices I Admire

2012 Melanie Wood – The Chemistry of Primes

2011 Margaret Wright – You Can’t Top This: Making Things Better with Mathematics

2010 Nathaniel Dean – Incomprehensibility

2009 Persi Diaconis – The Mathematics of Perfect Shuffles

2008 John Conway – The Symmetries of Things

2007 Donald E. Knuth – NegaFibonacci Numbers and the Hyperbolic Plane

2006 Donald G. Saari – Ellipses and Circles? To Understand Voting Problems??!

2005 Arthur Benjamin – Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof

2004 Joan P. Hutchinson – When Five Colors Suffice

2003 Robert L. Devaney – Chaos Games and Fractal Images

2002 Frank Morgan – Soap Bubbles: Open Problems

2001 Thomas Banchoff – Twice as Old, Again, and Other Found Problems

2000 John Ewing – The Mathematics of Computers

1999 V. Frederick Rickey – The Creation of the Calculus: Who, What, When, Where, Why

1998 Joseph A. Gallian – Breaking Driver’s License Plate Codes

1997 Philip D. Straffin Jr. – Excursions in the Geometry of Voting

1996 J. Kevin Colligan – Webs, Sieves and Money

1995 Marjorie Senechal – Tilings as Differential Gratings

1994 Colin Adams – Cheating your way to the Knot Merit Badge

1993 George Andrews – Ramanujan for Students

1992 Underwood Dudley – Angle Trisectors

1991 Henry Pollack – Some Mathematics of Baseball

1990 Ronald L. Graham – Combinatorics and Computers

1989 Jane Cronin Scanlon – Entrainment of Frequency

1988 Doris Schattschneider – You, Too, Can Tile the Conway Way

1987 Clayton W. Dodge – Reflections of a Problems Editor

1986 Paul Halmos – Problems I Cannot Solve

1985 Ernst Snapper – The Philosophy of Mathematics

1984 John L. Kelley – The Concept of Plane Area

1983 Henry Alder – How to Discover and Prove Theorems

1982 Israel Halperin – The Changing Face of Mathematics

1981 E. P. Miles Jr. – The Beauties of Mathematics

1980 Richard P. Askey – Ramanujan and Some Extensions of the Gamma and Beta Functions

1979 H. Jerome Kiesler – Infinitesimals: Where They Come From and What They Can Do

1978 Herbert E. Robbins – The Statistics of Incidents and Accidents

1977 Ivan Niven – Techniques of Solving Extremal Problems

1976 H. S. MacDonald Coxeter – The Pappus Configuration and Its Groups

1975 J. Sutherland Frame – Matrix Functions: A Powerful Tool