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Mathematics of Information, September 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

Second Abel Conference:
A Mathematical Celebration of John Milnor

January 30 to February 1, 2012

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Organizers

Alejandro Adem	University of British Columbia
Geir Ellingsrud	University of Oslo
Michael Hopkins	Harvard University
Robion Kirby	University of California Berkeley
James Stasheff	University of Pennsylvania

Description

The Abel Conference is an annual conference series that honors the Abel Prize Laureates. It is a collaboration between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

The IMA gratefully acknowledges the generous support of IBM Research and the University of Minnesota for the conference.

Schedule

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Monday January 30, 2012
10:00am-11:00am	Registration and coffee		Keller Hall 3-176
11:00am-11:15am	Welcome to the IMA		Keller Hall 3-180
11:15am-12:15pm	Exotic spheres via topological modular forms	Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Keller Hall 3-180
12:15pm-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm	Dynamical Milnor	John Fornaess (University of Michigan)	Keller Hall 3-180
3:00pm-3:10pm	Group photo		Keller Hall 3-180
3:10pm-3:30pm	Coffee break		Keller Hall 3-176
3:30pm-3:40pm	Film Showing - Niles Johnson will screen his short film on the 7-dimensional exotic sphere	Niles Johnson (University of Georgia)	Keller Hall 3-180
3:40pm-4:40pm	Around the genus-minimizing property of algebraic curves.	Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University)	Keller Hall 3-180
5:00pm-7:00pm	Reception at the Campus Club conference room B&C		Campus Club
Tuesday January 31, 2012
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee		Keller Hall 3-176
9:00am-10:00am	Diffeomorphism groups of some high dimensional manifolds.	Ib Madsen (University of Copenhagen)	Keller Hall 3-180
10:00am-10:30am	Coffee break		Keller Hall 3-176
10:30am-11:30am	Geometric structures in dimension four	Gang Tian (Princeton University)	Keller Hall 3-180
11:30am-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm-3:00pm	An overview of Heegaard Floer homology	Peter Ozsvath (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Keller Hall 3-180
3:00pm-3:30pm	Coffee break		Keller Hall 3-176
3:30pm-4:30pm	Cobordisms: old and new	Ulrike Tillmann (University of Oxford)	Keller Hall 3-180
6:00pm-8:00pm	Banquet at McNamara Alumni Center, Heritage Gallery		McNamara Alumni Center
Wednesday February 01, 2012
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee		Keller Hall 3-176
9:00am-10:00am	The Milnor Conjectures and Quadratic Forms	Parimala Raman (Emory University)	Keller Hall 3-180
10:00am-10:30am	Coffee break		Keller Hall 3-176
10:30am-11:30am	A solution to the Arf-Kervaire invariant problem	Douglas Ravenel (University of Rochester)	Keller Hall 3-180
11:30am-11:40am	Break
11:40am-12:40pm	On the homology of Lie groups made discrete	Fabien Morel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)	Keller Hall 3-180
12:40pm-1:00pm	Closing remarks		Keller Hall 3-180

Participants

NAME	DEPARTMENT	AFFILIATION
Alejandro Adem	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Anar Akhmedov	Mathematics Department	University of Minnesota
Hyman Bass	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Maria Basterra	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of New Hampshire
Mark Behrens	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julie Bergner	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Riverside
Jodi Black	Department of Mathematics	Bucknell University
William Browder	Department of Mathematics	Princeton University
Sylvain Cappell	Courant Institute	New York University
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Barry Cipra		NONE
Frederick Cohen	Department of Mathematics	University of Rochester
Xiaoyi Cui	Department of Physics and Astronomy	University of Minnesota
Isabel Darcy	Department of Mathematics	University of Iowa
James Davis	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
William Dwyer	Department of Mathematics	University of Notre Dame
Robert Edwards	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Geir Ellingsrud	Department of Mathematics	University of Oslo
John Fornaess	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Tingran Gao	Mathematics Department	Duke University
Hillel Gershenson		NONE
Samuel Gitler	Departamento de Matematicas	CINVESTAV
Robert Gulliver	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Ian Hambleton	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	McMaster University
Michael Hill	Department of Mathematics	University of Virginia
Michael Hopkins	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
Miriam Huntley	Department of Applied Physics	Harvard University
Dale Husemoller	Max Planck Institute for Mathematics	Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Bjørn Jahren	Department of Mathematics	University of Oslo
Dihua Jiang	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Niles Johnson	Department of Mathematics	University of Georgia
Donald Kahn	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Hee Jung Kim	Department of Mathematics	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Robion Kirby	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Peter Kronheimer	Department of Mathematics	Harvard University
Kee Yuen Lam	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Tsit Yuen Lam	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Tyler Lawson	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Lizao Li	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Tian-Jun Li	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Ayelet Lindenstrauss	Mathematics Department	Indiana University
Tom Lyche	Department of Informatics	University of Oslo
Ib Madsen	Department of Mathematics	University of Copenhagen
Albert Marden	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
John McCleary	Department of Mathematics	Vassar College
Dusa McDuff	Department of Mathematics	Barnard College
William Messing	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
John Milnor	Department of Mathematics	SUNY
Tom Milnor	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Jack Morava	Department of Mathematics	Johns Hopkins University
Fabien Morel	Mathematisches Institut	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Walter Neumann	Department of Mathematics, Columbia University	Barnard College
Peter Olver	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Kent Orr	Mathematics Department	Indiana University
Peter Ozsvath	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hyungju Park	Department of Mathematics	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Erik Pedersen	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Copenhagen
Candice Price	Department of Mathematics	University of Iowa
Karthik Pulivendal	Department of Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Changzheng Qu	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Anca Radulescu	Department of Psychology	University of Colorado
Parimala Raman	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Emory University
Andrew Ranicki	School of Mathematics	University of Edinburgh
Douglas Ravenel	Department of Mathematics	University of Rochester
Victor Reiner	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Jonathan Rogness	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Dale Rolfsen	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Xavier Ronaled	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Jeff Rosoff	Department of Mathematics	Gustavus Adolphus College
Lee Rudolph	Department of Mathematics	Clark University
Radmila Sazdanović	Department of Mathematics	University of Pennsylvania
Robert Scharein		Hypnagogic Software
George Sell	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Laurence Siebenmann	Laboratoire de Mathématique	Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)
Steven Sperber	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Chiung-Jue Sung	Department of Mathematics	National Tsing Hua University
Gang Tian	Department of Mathematics	Princeton University
Ulrike Tillmann	Mathematical Institute	University of Oxford
Victor Turchin	Department of Mathematics	Kansas State University
Jonathan Wahl	Department of Mathematics	University of North Carolina
Adwait Walimbe	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Ke Zhu	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota

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