AbstractThe work of Kervaire and Milnor reduces the classification of homotopy spheres in dimension atleast 5 to the problem of computing stable homotopy groups of spheres and their Kervaireinvariants. We will give an introduction to the recent developments in homotopy theory which leadsto the solution of the Kervaire invariant one problem and classification of homotopy spheres up toaround dime...
Speaker Ruixiang Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. He works in harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces and related problems. He is also interested in harmonic analysis on general locally symmetric spaces and in additive combinatorics.Awards for Zhang include the Gold Medal of the 49th International Mathematics Olympiad, a Silver Medal for his doctoral thesis for th...