Professor Kurt Mahler was one of the majors characters of Australian mathematics from his arrival in this country in the 1960s, until his death in 1988. The Society was a beneficiary under the will of Professor Mahler. The money from this bequest has been used to set up a visiting lectureship in his honour.

The Mahler Lectureship is awarded every two years to a distinguished mathematician who preferably works in an area of mathematics associated with the work of Professor Mahler. It is usually expected that the Lecturer will speak at one of the main Society Conferences and visit as many universities as can be reasonably managed.

^*In 2009 the lectureship has been organized in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute, so the lecture tour this year is known this year as the Clay–Mahler lectures.

Links to Terry Tao's 2009 Clay–Mahler lectures:

• Behrend lecture: Mathematical research and the internet
• Cosmic Distance Ladder
• Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture
• Structure and randomness in the prime numbers
• Compressed Sensing
• Discrete Random Matrices
• Recent progress in additive prime number theory
• Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture
• links to photos, news clippings, etc. at AMSI's site