Background
 The Erdős Memorial Lecture is an annual invited address made possible by a fund created by Andrew Beal, a Dallas banker and mathematics enthusiast. The Lecture is named for the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős (1913-1996). The Beal Prize Fund, now US$100,000, is being held by the AMS until it is awarded for a correct solution to the Beal Conjecture (see www.math.unt.edu/~mauldin/beal.html). At Mr. Beal's request, the interest from the fund is used to support the Erdős Memorial Lecture.
The next lecture will be given in March, 2009. Details TBA.
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Erdős Memorial Lecturers
3/15/08 Courant Institute of New York University, New York, NY, Spring Eastern Section Meeting
William Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge
Decomposing bounded functions
3/3/07 Davidson College, Davidson, NC, Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Andrew J. Granville, Université de Montréal
Erdős Dream and Pretentious Characters
4/8/06 University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Spring Central Section Meeting
Béla Bollobás, University of Memphis and Cambridge University
Inhomogeneous Random Graphs
10/8/05 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Eastern Section Meeting
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Erd??s picture of "most things"
http:///dynamic_archive/home-news.html#erdos2005
5/17/04 Hyatt Regency, Houston, TX, Sixth AMS-SMM International Meeting
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley
Tropical geometry
http:///dynamic_archive/home-news-2004.html#erdos2004
10/2/03 University of Colorado, Central-Western Joint Section Meeting
Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study
Some insights of computational complexity theory
http:///dynamic_archive/home-news-2003.html#erdos2003
10/6/02, Northeastern University, Eastern Section Meeting
Hillel Furstenberg, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
The conjecture of Erdős-Turan and Its Impact on Ergodic Theory
http:///dynamic_archive/home-news-2002.html#erdos
3/16/01 University of South Carolina, Southeast Section Meeting
Carl Pomerance, Bell Laboratories
Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Paul Erd??s, and me
9/23/00 University of Toronto, Central Section Meeting
John H. Conway, Princeton University
New ways to look at quadratic forms
5/19/99 University of North Texas, Fourth AMS-SMM International Meeting
Ronald L. Graham, AT&T Labs
Paul Erdős and his favorite problems in number theory
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