Dear Colleagues,

Vyron Vellis and I are organizing the 51^st Barrett Lectures, June 9-12, 2022. We have ample funding to support travel and lodging of participants, especially early career researchers such as advanced graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors. We currently estimate that we have full funding for 10-15 additional participants. If you know of early career researchers who would benefit from attending, please ask them to register. This conference will have several plenary lectures covering four diverse areas in geometry/topology in addition to more specialized talks. Those who register and request funding by May 6 will receive a promise of a minimum level of funding by May 8 so that they can make financial decisions about whether to attend. Requests for funding will be accepted after that date, but we may have fewer resources available. Below is the formal announcement.

The 51st John and Lida Barrett Memorial Lectures: Exotic continua in modern mathematics

which will be held at University of Tennessee, Knoxville on June 9-12, 2022.  The Barrett Lectures is one of the longest running and prestigious math conferences in the Southeastern USA. The history may be found here: https://math.utk.edu/barrett/. The Barrett Lectures were named for John H. Barrett, who was head of our department in 1969, and  his wife Lida Barrett was also a department head and a prominent administrator, including being elected as the second female president of the Mathematics Association of America. 

This year's topic is related to Lida's research in topology of exotic continua. Four important areas that involve such spaces are: Topological Dynamical Systems, Geometric Group Theory, Analysis on Metric Spaces, and Geometry of Singular Spaces. The five plenary speakers who have agreed to give lectures at the Barrett Lectures are five female leading experts to further honor Lida's efforts to diversify the field:

• Judy Kennedy (Lamar University)
• Olga Lukina (University of Vienna)
• Kim Ruane (Tufts University)
• Nageswari Shanmugalingam (University of Cincinnati)
• Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara)

 

The confirmed invited speakers so far are:

 

1. Ryan Alvarado (Amherst College)
2. Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Oulu)
3. Craig Guilbault (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
4. Tamara Kucherenko (City College of New York)
5. Constantine Medynets (United States Naval Academy)
6. Jiayin Pan (Fields Institute)
7. Raquel Perales (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
8. Catherine Searle (Wichita State University)
9. Sonja Stimac (University of Zagreb)
10. Christina Sormani (City University of New York)
11. Rodrigo Trevino (University of Maryland)
12. Sergio Zamora (Penn State University)
13. Scott Zimmerman (Ohio State University)

 

The registration for the conference is open. The conference is funded by the Mathematics Department, College, and Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development at the University of Tennessee, the Barrett Lectures Endowment, the NSF, and  the Institute for Mathematics and Applications. This funding will allow us to cover some expenses of the participants who request funding during registration. Members of underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply. 

 

To request funding, register by May 6, 2022 and request support in the registration form at https://math.utk.edu/barrett/51st-lectures/. Funding decisions will be made by May 8 so that participants will be able to plan accordingly. If you have any questions, see the website above or contact one of the organizers. 

 

We kindly ask to share this email with any colleague or PhD students in your department that may be interested. 

 

 

University of Tennessee