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The Garfinkel Lectureship is an invited lecture series at Yale University, funded by an endowment from Boris Garfinkel. The income from the endowment is used to invite one distinguished expert each year in the field of celestial mechanics or dynamical astronomy, who gives a special named colloquium, "The Garfinkel Lecture", and/or a series of talks, "The Garfinkel Lectures", in the Department of Astronomy. Boris Garfinkel (1904-1999) was associated with Yale starting in 1966, first as a visiting professor of astronomy, then as a senior research associate and lecturer (1967-1973), and finally as a senior research astronomer (1973). No lectureship was awarded in the years 2012-2013.

Garfinkel Lecturers (incomplete list)

 * 2011 – Harold F. Levison "The Early Dynamical Evolution of the Outer Solar System"
 * 2014 – David Merritt "Dynamical Evolution of Galactic Nuclei"