The public is invited to the 2008 Daniel Bartlett Memorial Lecture. The lecture, entitled “The Unity of Mathematics”, will be given by Barry Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard, and will be held on March 25, 2008 in the Gallagher Theater of the Arizona Memorial Student Union beginning at 7:00 PM. The lecture is intended for the educated public and the speaker is known for his ability to communicate to a wide audience. To learn more about the topic of the lecture, please view the lecture abstract.
For additional information on these announcements, please see the links above, or contact Professor Douglas Ulmer.
Barry Mazur, one of the world's leading mathematicians, works on
number theory, automorphic forms, and related issues in topology and
algebraic geometry. He has made fundamental contributions to these and
other areas of mathematics, and he is widely known as an exceptionally
talented expositor and teacher. Three current and former members of
The University of Arizona's Mathematics faculty are among Mazur's 49
PhD students.
Professor Mazur has received numerous prizes and honors over the course of his career, including the Mathematical Association of America's 1994 Chauvenet Prize for exposition, the American Mathematical Society's 1982 Cole Prize for his work in number theory, and the American Mathematical Society's 1965 Veblen Prize in Geometry for his work in topology. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2001. He is currently the Gerhard Gade University Professor, one of Harvard's most distinguished faculty positions.
Generous contributions by Daniel's family and friends have made it possible to establish this fund, whose purposes are to memorialize Daniel Bartlett, to foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics of the highest level in the Tucson community, and to support graduate education in Mathematics at The University of Arizona.
To contribute to this fund, checks should be made out to “UA Foundation”, with “Daniel Bartlett Memorial Fund” on the memo line, and can be sent to The Department of Mathematics, 617 N. Santa Rita Ave., P.O. Box 210089, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0089. For more information on contributing, please contact David Gonzalez.
Daniel Wezelman Bartlett was born November 8, 1980. He died of sudden
cardiac arrest on August 8, 2006, just before commencing his fourth
year of graduate school in mathematics at The University of Arizona.
He was a wonderful and loving son to his parents, a close companion to
his younger sister, and a fierce friend for many.
Daniel was born with physical impairments, but that didn't stop him from enjoying life. He played piano, trumpet, and shofar; he was a chess player; and he was an academic athlete, winning scholarships and contests for Academic Decathlon, economics, and the annual Shakespeare monologue competition (he loved portraying Iago). He was a proud leader in his B'rith Youth Organization.
Daniel's academic interests were not restricted to mathematics. As a junior in high school he was selected for the Telluride Association Summer Program at Cornell, an intense program in the humanities.
He graduated from University High School in Tucson both as a Presidential Scholar and a National Merit Scholarship winner.
Daniel loved mathematics and excelled at it all of his life. He went to Harvard for his undergraduate work, concentrating in mathematics, where his undergraduate advisor was Barry Mazur. While an undergraduate, he worked one summer at The University of Arizona Astronomy Department and another summer at the National Security Administration, where he co-authored a classified paper. He received his BA degree in 2003.
While studying for his PhD at The University of Arizona, Daniel had narrowed his research interest to the field of algebraic geometry, and at the time of his death he was beginning the work he hoped to use for his doctoral dissertation.