Princeton University
Department of Mathematics

Panorama of Topology: A conference in memory of Bill Browder

March 9-11th, 2026

Program

Monday, March 9
Time
Speaker
Title
Location
9:00-9:30
Welcome and coffee
Near Lewis Library 120
9:30-10:30
Zhouli Xu
The Last Kervaire Invariant Problem in Dimension 126
Lewis Library 120
11-12
Richard Schwartz
The optimal paper Moebius band
Lewis Library 120
12-1:15
Lunch break
1:15-2:15:00
Søren Galatius
Title3
Lewis Library 120
2:30-3:30
Ruth Charney
Cannon-Thurston maps for Morse boundaries
Lewis Library 120
3:30-4:00
Tea
Near Lewis Library 120
4:00-5:00
Tadashi Tokieda
Lewis Library 120
5:30-6:30
Musical Program
Taplin Auditorium
6:30
Reception
Fine Hall Tea Room (3rd Floor)

Tuesday, March 10
Time
Speaker
Title
Location
9:00-9:30
Welcome and coffee
Near Lewis Library 120
9:30-10:30
Maggie Miller
Stong’s Kervaire--Milnor invariant
Lewis Library 120
11-12
Andrew Blumberg
Multiplicative structures in Floer homotopy theory
Lewis Library 120
12-1:15
Lunch break
1:15-2:15:00
Gianmarco Caldini
Homotopy with holes and minimal surfaces
Lewis Library 120
2:30-3:30
Julia Pevtsova
Tensor triangular geometry in modular representation theory
Lewis Library 120
3:30-4:15
Tea
Fine Hall Tea Room
4:15-5:45
Alejandro Adem, Chair
Panel of Browder Students
Lewis Library 120
6:30
Banquet
Wednesday, March 11
Time
Speaker
Title
Location
9:00-9:30
Welcome and coffee
Near Lewis Library 120
9:30-10:30
Ishan Levy
Title9
Lewis Library 120
11-12
Shmuel Weinberger
The Browder-Livesay invariant
Lewis Library 120