An endowed lecture series established by the late Professor Emeritus Harry S. Kieval to bring important and renowned speakers to the Humboldt State University campus to deliver a lecture on some popular and/or broad aspect of mathematics which would be attractive to undergraduates and to the public. The lectures are held once each fall and spring.

Spring 2008 Kieval Lecture

Don Albers

Editorial Director of Mathematical Association of America Books

Thursday, April 17, 2008.

"A new Calculus" at 4 PM, NR 101

"Interviewing Mathematical People: Why? Who? How?" at 7PM, NR101

A poster with full details is available here.

Previous lecturers in this series have included:

  • C. Edward Sandifer, (details) Fall 2007 (Western Conneticut State University)
  • Melanie Wood, (details), Spring 2007 (Princton University)
  • Jerald Marsden, ( ), Fall 2006 (California Institute of Technology)
  • Deborah Ball, (details) , Spring 2006 (University of Michigan)
  • Majorie Senechal, (details), Fall 2005 (Smith College)
  • Joe Gallian, (details), Spring 2005 (University of Minnesota Duluth)
  • Jennifer Quinn, (details), Fall 2004 (Occidental College)
  • John Conway, (details), Spring 2004 (Princeton University)
  • Persi Diaconis (details), Fall 2003, (Stanford University)
  • Hyman Bass (details) ,Spring 2003 (U. of Michigan)
  • Ann E.Watkins  (details),Fall, 2002(CSU Northridge)
  • Ed Burger  (details), Spring, 2002 (Williams  College)
  • Michael E. Moody  (details ) Fall, 2001 (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Richard Tapia (details) Spring, 2001 ( Rice University)
  • Noam D. Elkies (details) Fall, 2000 (Harvard University)
  • Victor Katz (details) Spring, 2000 (University of the District of Columbia)
  • Arthur Benjamin (details) Fall, 1999 (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Thomas Banchoff (details)Spring, 1999 (Brown University)
  • Frank Giordano (details)  Fall, 1998 (COMAP)
  • Robert L. Devaney (Details) Spring, 1998 (Boston University)
  • Sherman Stein Fall, '97 (UC Davis)
  • Ron Graham (Details ) Spring, 1997
  • David Hoffman Fall, '96 (MSRI, Berkeley)
  • Doris Schattschneider Spring, '96 (Moravian College)
  • Herbert Keller Fall, '95 (Cal. Inst. of Technology)
  • Keith J. Devlin Spring, '95 (Saint Mary's College)
  • Deb Hughes Hallett (Harvard) and Jerry Uhl  (U of Ill.) Fall, '94
  • Gil Strang Spring, '94 (MIT)
  • Carlos Castillo-Chavez Fall, '93 (Cornell)
  • Judith Grabiner Spring, '93 (Pitzer College).
  • Judith Tanur Fall, '92 (SUNY, Stony Brook)
  • Margaret Cozzins Spring, '92 (Northeastern U.)
  • Saunders MacLane Fall, '91 (Univ. of Chicago)
  • Branko Grunbaum Spring, '91 (Univ. of Washington)
  • Robert Moses Fall, '90
  • George Dantzig Spring, '90 (Stanford Univ.) 
  • Reuben Hersh Fall, '89 (Univ. of NM)
  • Ralph Boas Spring, '89 (Northwestern Univ.)
  • Leon Henkin Fall, '88 (U.C., Berk.)
  • Mary Ellen Rudin Spring, '88(Univ. of Wisconsin)
  • Constance Reid Fall, '87
  • Kenneth Arrow Spring, '87 (Stanford Univ.)
  • Peter Hilton Fall, '86 (SUNY, Binghamton)
  • Gerard Debreu Spring, '86 (U.C.,Berk.)
  • Raymond Smullyan Fall, '85 (Ind. U.)
  • Paul Halmos Spring, '85 (Univ.of Santa Clara)
  • Richard Hamming Winter, '85 (Naval Postgrad.)
  • Victor Klee Spring, '84 (Univ. of Washington)
  • Ivan Niven Fall, '83 (Univ. of Oregon)
  • Ronald Graham Spring, '83 (Bell Labs)