Princeton University
Department of Mathematics
Panorama of Topology
A Conference
in Honor of William Browder
May 8-11, 2012
Program
Tea/Coffee and Cookies will be served each day at 3:45 pm in the
Fine Hall Common Room
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 |
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Time |
Event / Speaker |
Talk Title |
Location |
Media |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Morgan, John |
The Poincare Conjecture and the Classification of Manifolds |
A10 Jadwin Hall |
Video |
| 2:40pm - 3:40 pm | Vogtmann, Karen |
Automorphisms of free groups, hairy graphs and modular forms |
A10 Jadwin Hall |
Video |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Various |
Browder Conference: Open Microphone |
A10 Jadwin Hall |
Video |
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 |
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Time |
Event / Speaker |
Talk Title |
Location |
Media |
| 9:15am - 10:15am | Kahn, Jeremy |
Essential Immersed Surfaces in Closed Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 10:45am - 11:45am | Wise, Daniel |
Cubulating Groups |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Agol, Ian |
The virtual Haken conjecture |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 2:40 pm - 3:40 pm | McDuff, Dusa |
Group actions in symplectic topology |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Browder, William |
My life in mathematics: How I became a mathematician and the milestones of my career |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 6:00pm | Dinner - Banquet |
Prospect House |
Video | |
Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
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Time |
Event / Speaker |
Talk Title |
Location |
Media |
| 9:15am - 10:15am | Bahri, Tony |
New Topological Constructions in Toric Geometry and Topology |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 10:45am - 11:45am | Adem, Alejandro |
Equivariant K-theory and Spaces of Commuting Elements in a Compact Lie Group |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Ravenel, Douglas |
Browder's work on the Kervaire invariant problem |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 2:40pm - 3:40pm | Cohen, Fred |
Polyhedral products: a survey |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Reshetikhin, Nicolai |
Topological field theories: from classical to quantum |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
Friday, May 11, 2012 |
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Time |
Event / Speaker |
Talk Title |
Location |
Media |
| 9:15am - 10:15am | Lipshitz, Robert |
A Khovanov homotopy type |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 10:45am - 11:45am | Rasmussen, Jake |
Khovanov homology, Hilbert schemes, and Cherednik algebras |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Kronheimer, Peter |
SU(N) instanton homology for knots |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
| 2:50pm - 3:50pm | Kirby, Rob |
Triangulations at Princeton in 1968 |
A01 McDonnell Hall |
Video |
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