Barrett Lectures History

History of
The John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures
at the University of Tennessee

The John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures began in 1970 as a tribute to Dr. John H. Barrett, Mathematics Department Head (1964 - 1969) at the University of Tennessee, upon his death in 1969. They have been given annually since 1970 in a variety of mathematical fields by a succession of distinguished speakers.
Initially, the series centered on Ordinary Differential Equations, the research area of John Barrett. Since the mid-eighties however, other topics representing interests of research groups of the Mathematics Department have also been chosen.

**Past Barrett Lectures**
*Year*	*Area*	*Theme*	*Principal Speakers*
1970	ODE	???	Einar Hille - Yale(emeritus), New Mexico
1971	ODE	Stability of Differential and Difference Equations	J P LaSalle - Brown
1972	ODE	Large Systems of ODEs and Optimal Inequalities	Garrett Birkoff - Harvard
1973	ODE	Inequalities	W N Everett - Dundee
1974	ODE	Nonlinear Techniques for Linear Oscillation Problems	Zeev Nehari - Carnegie-Mellon
1975	ODE	Generic Bifurcations in ODEs	Jack Hale - Brown
1976	ODE	Some Aspects of Population Biology - Immunology, Ecology and Epidemiology	Paul Waltman - Iowa
1977	ODE	Oscillation Theory of ODEs	W T Reid - Oklahoma(emeritus)
1978	Algebra	Group Actions on Trees	Hyman Bass - Columbia
1979	ODE	???	Fred Brauer - Wisconsin
1980	Tolology	The PL Schoenflies Theorem	William Eaton - Texas
1981	ODE ?	???	James Bramble - Cornell
1982	ODE	Topological and Variational Methods for Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems	Jean Mawhin - Louvain
1983	Analysis	???	Donald Sarason - Berkeley
1984	Math Ecology	Fisheries Management	Donald Ludwig -British Columbia
1985	ODE	Stability and Control	Richard K Miller - Iowa State
1986	Algebra	Algebraic Geometry	Shreeram Abhyankar - Purdue
1987	ODE	Inverse Spectral Problems	Joyce McLaughlin - RPI
1988	Analysis	???	Alan Beardon - Cambridge
1989	Math Physics	Topological Quantum Field Theories	Sir Michael Atiyah - Oxford I M Singer - MIT Clifford Taubes - Harvard Karen Uhlenbeck - Texas
1991	PDE	Non-convex Problems in PDEs: Equilibrium Theory and Dynamics	John Ball - Herriot-Watt L Creg Evans - Berkeley Paul Fife - Utah
1992	Topology	Barrett Lectures on Homotopy Theory	Kiyoshi Igusa - Brandeis Tom Goodwillie - Brown
1993	Probability	Stochastic Differential Equations in Infinite Dimensions & Measure Valued Processes	Donald Dawson - Fields Institute Eugene Dynkin - Cornell Gopinath Kallianpur - UNC
1994	Algebra	Zero-Dimensional Commutative Rings	Robert Gilmer - Florida State
1995	PDE	Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Physics	Ronald Fintushel - Michigan State Sergiu Klainerman - Princeton Fang-Hua Lin - Courant Michael Struwe - ETH
1996	ODE	Spectral Theory and Computational Methods of Sturm-Liouville Problems	Anton Zettl - Northern Illinois
1997	Optimal Control	Control Theory and Applications	E B Lee - Minnesota Irena Lasiecka - Virginia
1998	Geometry	Discrete Conformal Geometry	James Cannon - Brigham Young Juha Heinonen - Michigan Oded Schramm - Weizmann
1999	Teaching	Successful Strategies for the Use of Technology in the Teaching of Mathematics	William Bauldry -Appalachian State John Harvey - Wisconsin M Kathleen Heid - Penn State Frank Wattenberg - Montana State
2000	Differential Geometry	New Directions in Differential Geometry	Alice Chang - Princeton Tobias Colding - Courant Karsten Grove - Maryland Jon Wolfson - Michigan State
2001	Computational Math	New Directions and Developments in Computational Mathematics	David Keyes - Old Dominion Mary Wheeler - Texas Jinchao Xu - Penn State
2002	Algebra	Recent Progress in Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry	Yasutaka Ihara - Kyoto Yujiro Kawamata - Tokyo
2003	Probability	Random walks, Levy processes, and related topics	Jean Bertoin - Paris VI Gregory Lawler - Cornell
2005	PDE	New Developments in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations	Sergiu Klainerman - Princeton
2006	Topology	Current Developments in Geometric Topology	John Baez - Riverside Stephen Bigelow -Santa Barbara William Goldman - Maryland
2007	Applied Math	Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science	Russel Caflisch - UCLA Bjorn Engquist - Texas Mitchell Luskin - Minnesota
2008	Math Education	Transitions to, through and beyond Calculus	Zalman Usiskin - Chicago David Bressoud - Macalaster Vena Long - Tennessee Susanna Epp - DePaul Margaret Robinson - Mt.Holyoke Francis Su - Harvey Mudd
2009	Probability	Stochastic Analysis and its Applications	Richard Bass - Connecticut Ofer Zeitoun - Minnesota & Weizmann
2010	Geometry	Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications at Highland Manor Inn and Convention Center in Townsend TN (Smokies)	Rick Kenyon - Brown Alexander Bobenko - TU-Berlin Elias Wegert - Freiberg Peter Schröder - CalTech Ken Stephenson - Tennessee
2011	Differential Geometry	Mathematical Relativity	Richard Schoen - Stanford Robert Wald - Chicago Igor Rodnianski - Princeton