Chelluri Lecture Series

The Chelluri Lecture series is offered in memory of Thyagaraju (Raju) Chelluri, who graduated magna cum laude from Cornell with a Bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1999. Raju was a brilliant student, a gifted scholar, and a wonderful human being who died on August 21, 2004 at the age of 26, shortly after completing all requirements for the Ph.D. in Mathematics at Rutgers University. He wrote a thesis called Equidistribution of the Roots of Quadratic Congruences under the supervision of H. Iwaniec and was awarded a Ph.D. posthumously.

The Chelluri Lecture Endowment was established in 2004 with support from family and friends of Thyagaraju (Raju) Chelluri. Each year, a distinguished mathematician will be invited to give the Chelluri Lecture.

Upcoming Lectures

Laura DeMarco of University of Illinois at Chicago will give the 2013-2014 Chelluri Lecture on April 10, 2014. More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

Previous Lectures in the Series

• Peter Sarnak, Princeton University:
  The Matrix Groups and Diophantine Analysis (2013)
• Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University:
  From Continued Fractions to Modular Forms (2012)
• Persi Diaconis, Stanford University:
  The Search for Randomness (2011)
• Joe Gallian, University of Minnesota:
  Using Mathematics to Create Symmetry Patterns (2010)
• Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University:
  Einstein's Equations, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves (2009)
• Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester:
  Cloaking Devices, Electromagnetic Wormholes, and Transformation Optics (2008)
• Kenneth Ribet, University of California at Berkeley:
  Recent Progress on Serre's Conjecture (2007)
• Dan Goldston, San Jose State University:
  Are There Infinitely Many Twin Primes? (2006)