Sapir Distinguished Lecture Series established
Long-time faculty member Mark Sapir has been honored with the establishment of the Sapir Distinguished Lecture Series. This biennual series, beginning in 2026, recognizes an outstanding scientific result in group theory. The distinction conferred every two years at an installment of the Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications (GAGTA) conference series. It celebrates the memory and legacy of Prof. Sapir, while at the same time highlighting outstanding recent paper of an early career researcher in geometric group theory and related areas.
The inaugural lecturer is Marco Linton of the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid. The GAGTA 2026 conference is scheduled to take place June 1-5, 2026 at the City College of CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center as the official satellite conference of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians. Click here for the web site.
For more about the Sapir Distinguished Lecture Series, see the official web site. For more about Mark Sapir, visit his Wikipedia page or his Vanderbilt web page.