Upcoming University and Messenger Lectures

University Lecturer

Lawrence Wein is The Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science and was a  Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs during 2018-2024. He received a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell in 1979, a Ph.D. in Operations Research at Stanford University in 1988, and was a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management from 1988 to 2002. His research interests are in operations management and public health.

Lecture Title: “An Algorithm That Solves Crimes”
Date: October 7, 2025
Time: 4:15-5:15 p.m.
Place: Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, G01

Messenger Lecturer

Professor Ludovic Orlando, HDR, PhD, Agrégé, Normalien, Director, Centre for Anthropobiology & Genomics of Toulouse, CAGT, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France, is one of the world’s leading scientists who study ancient DNA. His published work over the past decade has provided paradigm-changing insights into the evolution and domestication of the horse and the contributions of the horse to human civilization.

Lecture Titles: “The Ancient DNA revolution in human evolution,” “The horse before and after our shared history, ” and “Environmental DNA: time capsules of past and present life”
Date: April 20-24, 2026
Time: TBD
Place: TBD

Messenger Lecturer

Professor Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson, former President of Iceland (2016–2024) and current Professor of History at the University of Iceland.

Lecture Titles: TBD
Dates: March 15-23, 2026
Time: TBD
Place: TBD

University Lecturer

Dr. Britt Wray, director of Stanford University’s “CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry”

Lecture Title: TBD
Date:  March 2027
Time: TBD
Place: TBD