Under the auspices of:
 
      Hebrew University of Jerusalem     and      University of Haifa
 
                             FIRST ANNOUCEMENT
                             .................
 
                                  Workshop
 
                                     on
 
                            The KERVAIRE INVARIANT
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                         Monday-Wednesday,   May 7-9, 2012
 
Note the special venue:
                         Caesarea Maritime Center,  Israel
 
            Main speaker:  Professor Mike Hill
                           University of Virginia
 
      1) Framed manifolds and the Arf-Kervaire problem
      2) The Arf-Kervaire invariant
      3) Stable homotopy and the Adams spectral sequence
      4) Kervaire classes in the Adams spectral sequence
      5) Equivariant stable homotopy theory
      6) The slice filtration
      7) Non-existence of elements of Kervaire Invariant one.
 
     Background talks will be given by other participants of the workshop.
 
* For further details and registration please contact:
 
       David Blanc<blanc@math.haifa.ac.il,        Tel 04-8249758
       Emmanuel Farjoun<farjoun@math.huji.ac.il   Tel 02-6584534
 
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Technion Math Net-2 (TECHMATH2)
Editor: Michael Cwikel <techm@math.technion.ac.il>
Announcement from: David Blanc <blanc@math.haifa.ac.il>