Sackler Distinguished Lectures

The Sackler Distinguished Lectures are en endowed annual lecture series, bringing an outstanding mathematician to Israel every year. The lectures are given Tel Aviv University. They are supported by Raymond R. Sackler (a brother of Arthur M. Sackler) and his wife, Beverly, philanthropists with a commitment to support scientific research.

The first lecture series took place in 1980.

List of the Sackler Distinguished Lecturers

• 1980/1981: Joseph B. Keller (Stanford University, U.S.), Friedrich Hirzebruch (University of Bonn, Germany)
• 1981/1982: Elias M. Stein (Princeton University, U.S.)
• 1982/1983: Pierre Deligne (IHÉS, France)
• 1984/1985: George Mostow (Yale University, U.S.)
• 1985/1986: Isidore Singer (MIT, U.S.)
• 1986/1987: Alain Connes (IHÉS, France)
• 1989/1990: Lennart Carleson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Ya. G. Sinai (USSR)
• 1990/1991: Sergei Novikov (Moscow State University, USSR)
• 1991/1992: Joseph Bernstein (Harvard University, U.S.)
• 1993/1994: Pierre-Louis Lions ( University of Paris-Dauphine, France)
• 1996/1997: Laszlo Lovasz (Yale University, U.S.)
• 1997/1998: Enrico Bombieri (IAS, U.S.)
• 1998/1999: Peter Shor (AT&T, U.S.), Alexander Razborov (Steklov Institute, Russia)
• 2000/2001: Jean-Michel Bismut (France), Peter Sarnak (U.S.)
• 2003/2004: Shlomo Sternberg (Harvard University, U.S.)
• 2006/2007: Toshiyuki Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)