Presenters will include:

• Gerald L. Smith, UK history professor and Scholar in Residence of the Martin Luther King Center. Smith, who has spent years researching Kentucky CORE personalities, activities, frustrations and accomplishments. He will speak about Lexington’s CORE heroes, who risked their security, their future and even their lives to bring down the barriers of racism and segregation in the bluegrass state, securing a better future for their descendants.
• Joann Martin, co-founder and executive director of the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
• John Johnson, executive director of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights
• Jerry Gore, 2012 NEA Woodson Award winner
• Charles Neblett, civil rights activist and original civil rights movement’s Freedom Singer.

Attendees to the free event will also have the opportunity to view two exhibits that brought the public out in droves when they were previously hosted at the university: Calvert McCann’s collection of photographs he took during the civil rights movement and "Freedom Times: The Underground Railroad."

The afternoon will be devoted to the children, about 100 from 5th through 12th grades, all from different youth groups and programs. Their workshop breakout will focus on economic empowerment, peace education, the Underground Railroad and voting rights and responsilities.

A registration form, permission slip and photo release must be completed for youth to attend the workshops. Free lunch will be offered to those who donate canned food items.

The Kentucky Archaeological Society will host a screening of "Davis Bottom: Rare History, Valuable Lives" at Farish Theater at the Lexington Public Library. In addition to screening the hour-long documentary, viewers will be able to meet some of the sponsors and the program producer. After the documentary, attendees will be able to participate in a discussion about the critical role primary documents played in telling the neighborhood's story.  

For more information about the Davis Bottom Project, click here. 

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The following students will be presenting seminars:

Kai Ding - Transition Metal-catalyzed Synthesis of C-glycosides

Soledad Yao - Oxidation of Lignin Model Compounds in Ionic Liquid

Course Instructor: Dr. Susan Odom

Title:  Smoothness of isometries between subRiemannian manifolds

Abstract:  In a joint work with Enrico Le Donne (Jyvaskyla, Finland), we show that the group of isometries (i.e., distance-preserving homeomorphisms) of an equiregular subRiemannian manifold is a finite-dimensional Lie group of smooth transformations. The proof is based on a new PDE argument, in the spirit of harmonic coordinates, establishing that in an arbitrary subRiemannian manifold there exists an open dense subset where all isometries are smooth.

Title:  Higher-order analogues of the exterior derivative complex

Abstract:  I will discuss some earlier joint work with E. M. Stein concerning div-curl type inequalities for the exterior derivative operator and its adjoint in Euclidean space R^n. I will then present various higher-order generalizations of the notion of exterior derivative, and discuss some recent div-curl type estimates for such operators. Part of this work is joint with A. Raich.