[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] Peter Hilton Memorial Lecture

[somnath at math.binghamton.edu]

PETER HILTON MEMORIAL LECTURE

http://www.math.binghamton.edu/dept/HiltonMemorial/

*Date:*  Thursday, April 10th, 2014

*Time:*  3:15-4:15pm
*Place:*  Science 2, room 140 followed by Reception at 4.30, in The
Chenango Room, Binghamton University.

*Speaker: ** *Doug Ravenel (University of Rochester)
*Title: * A Solution to the Arf-Kervaire Invariant Problem

*Abstract:* The Arf-Kervaire invariant problem arose from
Kervaire-Milnor's classification of exotic spheres in the early 1960s.
Browder's theorem of 1969 raised the stakes by connecting it with a deep
question in stable homotopy theory. In 2009 Mike Hill, Mike Hopkins and I
proved a theorem that solves all but one case of it. The talk will outline
the history and background of the problem and give a brief idea of how we
solved it.