In addition to recording the lectures at workshops, MSRI undertakes some special productions, usually with higher production values, for wider audiences. The first series of these productions to have begun is New Horizons in Undergraduate Mathematics. These videos will showcase great lecturers speaking on topics from current research that are both important, accessible and ready to enter the undergraduate curriculum.

The very first production in the New Horizons series is a pair of lectures on Gröbner Bases, by Bernd Sturmfels, of UC Berkeley. We anticipate future lectures on algebraic topology and its applications (Gunnar Carlsson, of Stanford) and Hyperbolic Geometry (Colin Adams, Williams). The New Horizons Series has been started through a generous grant from William Randolph Hearst III.

There will also be special productions about the philosophy and art of running a math circle featuring the organizers of the Cambridge Math Circle and the Berkeley Math Circle. The Mathematical Circle productions are funded by a generous grant from the Akamai Foundation.

This page also contains links to special events and lectures that are not part of any Programs or Workshops. For streaming videos and other media of our regular workshops, please visit our main video page at http://www.msri.org/communications/vmath/

Streaming Video and Media Files

An Introduction to MSRI

Invitation to Discover

New Horizons in Undergraduate Mathematics

Gröbner Bases with Bernd Sturmfels

Critical Issues in Mathematics Education

Symposium on Global Warming: From Global Predictions to Local Action

April 11, 2007: Public Symposium held at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
April 12-13, 2007: Scientific Symposium

MSRI Biology Colloquium

For a listing of all talks and their videos for our Biology Colloquium series, please see the main Biology Colloquium page at specials/sbc/index_html

Other Special Events and Lectures

January 26, 2008 - Christopher Taylor, David Benson, Robert Osserman, MSRI 25th Anniversary Special Event: Christopher Taylor in conversation with David Benson and Robert Osserman
January 17, 2008 - Alan Alda and Robert Osserman, M*A*T*H: Alan Alda in conversation with Bob Osserman
May 17 to May 18, 2007 - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presents Gulliver Multiscale Bioimaging Workshop
March 25, 2006 - Robbert Dijkgraaf, The quantum geometry of string theory
March 6, 2006 - Sir Roger Penrose, Twistor Theory, Old and New
March 5, 2006 - Sir Roger Penrose, Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in Modern Physical Theory
March 3, 2006 - Chern Hall Dedication, Matmos in Concert, A Musical Enigma; Matmos Meets Turing
March 2, 2006 - Sir Roger Penrose, Simons Auditorium Inaugural Lecture: Before the Big Bang
September 22, 2005 - Richard Tapia, A Lifetime of Diversity: Challenges, Successes and Rewards
September 22, 2005 - Richard Tapia, On Sizing and Shifting the BFGS Update within the Sized-Broyden Family of Secant Updates
March 19, 1997 - T.Y. Lam, Irving Kaplansky, Tom Lehrer and others, Irving "Kap" Kaplansky's 80th Birthday Celebration
December 1994 - Bernd Sturmfels, Twenty-First Holiday Symposium: Gröbner Bases and Convex Polytopes