Einstein Lectures

The Einstein Lectures are jointly organised each year by the University of Bern and the Albert Einstein Society. The speakers are distinguished figures who have made significant contributions in fields related to Albert Einstein’s legacy. The lecture topics rotate on a three-year cycle, focusing successively on physics, mathematics, and philosophy.

Here you can find more information about the Einstein Lectures.

List of previous Einstein Lecturers
2025 Prof. Dr. Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo), Nobel Prize 2018
2024 Prof. Dr. Susan R. Wolf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
2023 Prof. Dr. Maryna Viazovska (EPFL), Fields Medal 2022
2022 Prof. Didier Queloz (University of Cambridge und ETH-Z), Nobel Prize 2019
2021 Prof. Philip Pettit (Princeton University, USA and ANU, Australia)
2019 Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (UC Berkeley, USA), Turing Award 2012
2018 Prof. Dr. Barry Barish (California Institute of Technology, USA), Nobel Prize 2017
2017 Prof. Dr. Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge, UK)
2016 Prof. Dr. Martin Hairer (University of Warwick, UK), Fields Medal 2014
2015 Prof. Dr. Alan Guth (MIT, Boston, USA), Kavli Prize 2014
2014 Prof. Dr. Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago, USA), Prince of Asturias Prize in Social Sciences 2012
2013 Prof. Dr. Cédric Villani (Université de Lyon und Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris), Fields-Medaille 2010
2012 Prof. Dr. Andre Geim (University of Manchester, UK), Nobel Prize 2010
2011 Prof. Dr. Ronald Dworkin (NY University, USA)
2010 Prof. Dr. Peter Lax (NY University, USA), Abel Prize 2005
2009 Prof. Dr. Frank Wilczek (MIT), Nobel Prize 2004