Schupp lectures

The GAGTA Steering Committee is pleased to announce establishing the Schupp Distinguished Lecture series, as a part of the GAGTA conferences, in honor of Paul E. Schupp (1937-2022). Nominations are invited for the inaugural Schupp Lecture, to be given at GAGTA 2025, expected to take place in Batumi, Georgia in August 2025.

Nominations should be submitted to gagta.schupp.lecture@gmail.com by the end of July 1, 2024.

                            The Schupp Distinguished Lecture

The Schupp Distinguished Lecture for an outstanding scientific result in group theory and related areas is an international distinction conferred every two years at an installment of the Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA) conference series.  It celebrates Paul Schupp's memory and ethos 

by highlighting outstanding recent work that establishes and enforces links between group theory and other areas.

The Schupp Distinguished Lecture will take place in alternating years during the GAGTA conference, with the inaugural lecture delivered at GAGTA 2025, expected to take place in Batumi, Georgia in August 2025.

   Nomination and selection process

    *The call for nominations for the GAGTA 2025 Schupp Distinguished Lecture will open at the GAGTA 2024 conference and will be circulated on mailing lists.

    *The call will close on July 1st, 2024.  

     *Nomination letters of no more than 500 words (approximately one page) should be sent before the deadline to gagta.schupp.lecture@gmail.com.

     A paper cannot be nominated by one of its authors. 

     *An international selection committee led by Ilya Kapovich (Hunter College of the City University of New York) and Enric Ventura (Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya ) will consider the nominations and will select the  work to be distinguished. The committee may decline to give an award in a given year.  A decision will be made by November 1st, 2024. 

    *The committee will contact the authors of the selected work at least four months before the GAGTA conference. A condition of the award is that one of the authors  presents the results at the GAGTA 2025 conference. 

Eligibility

Nominated papers must have been published in July 2023 or later, or accepted January 2023 or later, or have been uploaded to the arXiv between January 2022 and January 2024.