Named lecture

A Named Lecture is an academic lecture associated with a name of a person of outstanding significance to the subject the lecture is concerned with. They are usually delivered at a predefined frequency at an academic institution. Such lectures exist for a number of academic fields and they commemorate individuals who have made significant contribution to the subject.

List of named lectures

Engineering

Civil Engineering

• AGS Poulos Lecture ^[1]
• ASCE Terzaghi Lecture ^[2]
• BGA Géotechnique Lecture

• BGA Rankine Lecture ^[3]
• Coulomb Lecture
• GS Glossop Lecture ^[4]
• ICE SECED Mallet-Milne Lecture ^[5]

Mechanical engineering

• ASME Timoshenko Lecture ^[6]

Science

Computer science/information technology

• Wheeler Lecture ^[7]

Physics

• The Welsh Lectures in Physics ^[8]

Religion and philosophy

• Gifford Lectures
• Howison Lecture in Philosophy
• John Locke Lecture
• Lowell Lectures
• Neal A Maxwell Lecture
• Tanner Lectures on Human Values

References

1. Poulos Lecture
2. Terzaghi Lecture
3. Rankine Lecture
4. Glossop Lecture
5. Mallet-Milne Lecture
6. "Timoshenko Lecture". Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
7. Wheeler Lecture
8. "2024 H.L. Welsh Lectures in Physics". welsh.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2024-12-02.