followed by a Reception at 4:30, in The Chenango Room, Binghamton University. This
reception is for the whole Binghamton Mathematics Community as well as for our visitors.
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.
