Simons Lecture Series The Department of Mathematics annually presents the Simons Lecture Series to celebrate the most exciting mathematical work by the very best mathematicians of our time. The format of this lecture series has evolved since its inception in 1999, and now includes two weeks of lectures - one in pure mathematics and the other in applied mathematics - given each spring. We are grateful to our good friend Jim Simons for providing the financial backing of these lectures. [Simons Lecture Poster 2017]<http://math.mit.edu/news/seminars/posters/SimonsPoster2017.pdf> 2017 Lectures Receptions: 4:00pm in room 2-290 April 24-26, 4:30-5:30pm, Room 2-190 Yuval Peres Microsoft Research Surprises in Discrete Probability Lecture 1: Monday, April 24 A fair partition of the sphere and overhanging blocks Lecture 2: Tuesday, April 25 Strange geometry of high-dimensional spanning forests Lecture 3: Wednesday, April 26 Mixing time in Ramanujan graphs and random graphs May 1-3, 4:30-5:30pm, Room 2-190 Martin Hairer University of Warwick Singular Stochastic PDEs Lecture 1: Monday, May 1 Bridging scales: from microscopic dynamics to macroscopic laws Lecture 2: Tuesday, May 2 An analyst’s incursion into quantum field theory Lecture 3: Wednesday, May 3 Renormalization: a BPHZ theorem for stochastic PDEs Contact: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>