Simon Brendle is a German Mathematician and a recipient of numerous prizes, including the EMS prize for his contributions to differential geometry. He is currently a professor at Stanford University. His areas of research include : Yamabe Flow, Differentiable Sphere Theorem, Min-Oo Conjecture, and Lawson Conjecture.

Speakers in the Distinguished and Coxeter Lecture Series have made outstanding contributions to their field of mathematics. The Lecture Sereies consists of three one-hour lectures.