Juvitop Seminar Fall 2014
Juvitop Seminar on the Kervaire Invariant One Problem
Fall 2014, Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 pm, E17-128, MIT
Juvitop is the MIT graduate student topology seminar.
Schedule of Talks
24/09/2014: Prof. Michael Hopkins :
The Kervaire Invariant One Problem
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
01/10/2014: Kevin Sackel :
Framed Cobordism and Homotopy Spheres
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
08/10/2014: Jun-Hou Fung :
The Adams Spectral Sequence
Notes (by Jun-Hou Fung)
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
15/10/2014: Denis Nardin :
Crossing Browder's Bridge
22/10/2014: Michael Andrews :
Ravenel's Work at Odd Primes
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
29/10/2014: Saul Glasman :
Basics of Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
05/11/2014: Eva Belmont :
The Strategy of the Hill-Hopkins-Ravanel's Proof
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
12/11/2014: Jay Shah :
Fixed Points
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
19/11/2014: Lukas Brantner :
The Slice Spectral Sequence
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
26/11/2014: No meeting (Thanksgiving)
03/12/2014:
Jeremy Hahn :
Reduction to the Reduction Theorem
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
10/12/2014: Charmaine Sia :
Finale -The Reduction Theorem and the Gap Theorem
Notes (by Denis Nardin)
References
Talk 2: "Groups of Homotopy Spheres I", M. Kervaire, J. Milnor "Lectures on Groups of Homotopy Spheres", J.P. Levine
"The Kervaire Invariant of Framed Manifolds and its Generalization"
W. Browder
"The Non-Existence of Odd Primary Arf Invariant Elements in Stable Homotopy", D. Ravenel
"On the Non-Existence of Elements of Kervaire Invariant One", M. Hill, M. Hopkins, D. Ravenel
"Kervaire Invariant One", H. Miller, Séminaire Bourbaki
This seminar is organised by Lukas Brantner.