GAGTA Schupp Lecture

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). 

                            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.

The inaugural Schupp Lecture was delivered at GAGTA 2025, at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 9, 2025, by Laurent Bartholdi. He gave a talk "The domino problem on groups and Schreier graphs"  based on the paper "The domino problem for hyperbolic groups," arXiv:2305.06952. 

The information below describes the nomination and selection process used for the 2025 Schupp Lecture and is preserved here for archival purposes.

  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 Politecnica 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. 

Schupp Lecture Selection Committee

The Schupp Lecture Section Committee for the 2025 inaugural Schupp Distingushed Lecture consisted of:

• Ilya Kapovich (Hunter College of CUNY), co-Chair

• Enric Ventura (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), co-Chair

• Martin Bridson (Oxford University)

• Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein (University of Sannio)

• Indira Chatterji (University of Côte d'Azur) 

• Sara Rees (University of Newcastle)

• Kim Ruane (Tufts University)