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 Lecture1
- ASCE Terzaghi Lecture2
- BGA Géotechnique Lecture
- BGA Rankine Lecture3
- Coulomb Lecture
- GS Glossop Lecture4
- ICE SECED Mallet-Milne Lecture5
Mechanical Engineering
- ASME Timoshenko Lecture6
Science
Computer Science/Information Technology
- Wheeler Lecture7
Physics
- The Welsh Lectures in Physics8
Religion and Philosophy
- Gifford Lectures
- Howison Lecture in Philosophy
- John Locke Lecture
- Lowell Lectures
- Neal A Maxwell Lecture
- Tanner Lectures on Human Values
References
Poulos Lecture http://australiangeomechanics.org/1931/poulos-lecture-tunnels-and-excavations-ground-movements-and-the-construction-process/ ↩
Terzaghi Lecture http://www.asce.org/leadership-and-management/awards/terzaghi-lecture/ ↩
Rankine Lecture http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/info/rankine ↩
Glossop Lecture http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/engineeringawards ↩
Mallet-Milne Lecture http://www.ice.org.uk/News-Public-Affairs/ICE-News/seced-hosts-14th-mallet-milne-lecture-at-ice ↩
"Timoshenko Lecture". Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2013-05-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311002155/http://imechanica.org/node/177 ↩
Wheeler Lecture http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wheeler/ ↩
"2024 H.L. Welsh Lectures in Physics". welsh.physics.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2024-12-02. https://welsh.physics.utoronto.ca/ ↩