Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture

• 2024 -- Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
• 2020 -- Robert Gompf, University of Texas at Austin (lecture cancelled due to COVID)
• 2019 -- Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
• 2018 -- Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
• 2017 -- Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
• 2016 -- Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago
• 2015 -- Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan
• 2014 -- Doug Ravenel, University of Rochester
• 2013 -- Dani Wise, McGill University
• 2012 -- Guido Mislin, The Ohio State University and ETH Zürich

About Peter Hilton

Peter Hilton, 1923-2010, was a member of the Binghamton Mathematics Department from 1982 until his death in November 2010. He was an internationally famous member of the mathematical community. His contributions included a major role in the code-breaking operation at Bletchley Park during World War II, where he worked with Alan Turing, and important research contributions to topology, homological algebra, elementary number theory, combinatorics, and polyhedral geometry, as well as mathematics education at all levels. A collection of memoirs by people who knew Peter has been published in the December 2011 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Peter gave a talk to the department about his wartime codebreaking. You can watch it here.