Each year the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Seton Hall University invites a distinguished speaker to give a lecture in memory of our former chair Charles Franke.

• 2009: Narain Gehani, Chair, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
  Bell Labs - The Glorious Days of Research
  
  
• 2008: Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University
  Graph-theoretical Models of the Spread and Control of Disease and of Fighting Fires
  
  
• 2007: Tuck Washburn, Seton Hall University
  The Jacobian Conjecture
  
  

• 2006: Ed Sandifer
  Mathematics and Controversy: Examples Euler
  
  
• 2005: Harold M. Edwards, Courant Institute
  
  
• 2004: Frank Boesch, Stevens Institute of Technology 
  Applications of Graph Theory
  
  
• 2003: Jeff Lagarius, ATT
  The 3 X + 1 Problem
  
  
• 2001: Andrew Odlyzko, ATT
  Zero's of the Zeta Function
  
  

• 2000: Janos Pach, New York University
  Crossroads in Flatland
  
  
• 1999: John H. Conway, Princeton University
  The Monster
  
  
• 1998: Harold Edwards, Courant Institute
  The Foundations of Algebra
  
  
• 1997: Joan Birman, Columbia University
  The Theory of Knots
  
  
• 1996: Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University
  Wavelets
  
  
• 1995: N.J.A. Sloane, Bell Laboratories
  Arrangements of Points on Spheres
  
  
• 1994: Ronald Graham, Bell Laboratories
  The Mathematics of Juggling