Maxson Lecture Series

The Maxson Lecture Series honours Professor Emeritus Carl Maxson, who was a member of the Texas A&M Mathematics Department from 1969 until his retirement in 2002. This annual event is made possible by a generous endowment from Dr. Maxson's first doctoral student, Professor Ponnammal Natarajan of Chennai, India.

The Maxson Lectures for the year 2008 will be delivered by

Ken Ono
Solle P. and Margaret Manasse Professor of Letters and Science
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Ken Ono received his Ph.D from UCLA in 1993, under the guidance of Basil Gordon. Upon graduation, he held positions at the University of Georgia, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Advanced Studies, and Penn State University, where he was Louis P. Martarano Professor from 1999-2000. He moved to the University of Wisconsin in 2000, and in 2004 he was named Solle P. and Margaret Manasse Professor of Letters and Science.

He has authored over 100 research papers, as well as the CBMS monograph entitled The Web of Modularity. His work includes ground-breaking results on partition congruences, coefficients of modular forms, traces of singular modulii, Borcherds products, mock-theta functions, and much more. He has advised 15 doctoral students to date, and sits on the editorial boards of over ten journals. He has received numerous awards and honours, including a Sloan Fellowship, a Presidential Early Career Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In addition to his stellar research accomplishments, Ken Ono is also a master lecturer and teacher, as evidenced by his receipt of the 2005 National Science Foundation Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award, and the 2007 Favorite Instructor Award from the University of Wisconsin Residence Halls.

Schedule of Lectures

Lecture I Lecture II
April 28th, 4p.m., Blocker 120 April 29th, 4p.m., Blocker 120
Unearthing the visions of a master: Harmonic Maass forms Arithmetic and Maass forms


Prior Years