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
• ASCE Terzaghi Lecture
• BGA Géotechnique Lecture

• BGA Rankine Lecture
• Coulomb Lecture
• GS Glossop Lecture
• ICE SECED Mallet-Milne Lecture

Mechanical engineering

• ASME Timoshenko Lecture

Science

Computer science/information technology

• Wheeler Lecture

Physics

• The Welsh Lectures in Physics

Religion and philosophy

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