Symposium Michel Kervaire
Geneva, February 10-13, 2009
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Tuesday February 10 |
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9h30 |
Opening of the Symposium |
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9h40-10h40 |
Sylvain Cappell I |
Different knots with the same complement |
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Coffee break |
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11h15-12h00 |
Eva Bayer |
Quadratic forms |
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Lunch break |
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14h00-14h45 |
Boas Erez |
Lessons from an inspiring teacher |
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15h00-15h45 |
Roger Fenn I |
One of Michel's conjectures and what it has to do with cantons and crashing border guards |
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Coffee break |
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16h15 |
John Milnor |
The geometry of growth and form |
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17h30 |
Apéritif |
Section
de mathématiques, 2-4 rue du Lièvre |
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Wednesday February 11 |
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9h30-10h30 |
Andrew Ranicki I |
On Michel Kervaire's work in surgery and knot theory |
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Coffee break |
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11h00-12h00 |
Sylvain Cappell II |
Singularities of maps and global invariants |
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Lunch break |
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14h00-14h45 |
Shalom Eliahou |
On selected joint results with Michel Kervaire |
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15h00-15h45 |
Françoise Michel |
Higher dimensional knots according to Kervaire |
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Coffee break |
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16h15-17h15 |
Vaughan Jones I |
Planar algebras and subfactors |
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Thursday February 12 |
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9h30-10h30 |
Cameron Gordon I |
Unsolvable problems about higher-dimensional knot groups |
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Coffee break |
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11h00-12h00 |
Andrew Ranicki II |
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Lunch break |
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14h00-14h45 |
Claude Cibils |
The intrinsic fundamental group of an algebra |
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15h00-15h45 |
Jacques Thévenaz |
Endo-trivial modules for finite groups |
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Coffee break |
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16h15-1700 |
Roger Fenn II |
What is a knot and how do you recognise one? |
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19h00 |
Symposium dinner |
l'Olivier
de Provence, rue Jacques-Dalphin 13, Carouge |
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Friday February 13 |
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8h45-9h30 |
Cameron Gordon II |
Surface subgroups of doubles of free groups |
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9h45-10h45 |
Norbert A'Campo |
Plurisubharmonic levels, dessins d'enfant and monodromy |
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Coffee break |
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11h15-12h00 |
Vaughan Jones II |
Why planar algebras-from 't Hooft to Sudoku |
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End of the Symposium |
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