Lecture Series on Bing topology and Casson handles

Speaker:

Mike Freedman

Affiliation:

Station Q

Date:

Tue, 08/01/2013 - 16:30 - Wed, 24/04/2013 - 18:30

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Details:

Program [3] and Abstracts [4] of Lecture Series on Bing topology and Casson handles

The lectures of Mike Freedman are transmitted from Santa Barbara by live video conferences every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 p.m.. To watch recordings of these sessions click the "Video" links in the program below.

Tue, 08 Jan 2013

16:30 - 18:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Schoenflies Theorem according to Mazur and Morse [5]

Video [6]

Thu, 10 Jan 2013

16:30 - 18:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Generalized Schoenflies Theorem via the Bing shrinking principle [7]

Video [8]

Tue, 22 Jan 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Decomposition space theory and shrinking: examples [9]

Video [10]

Thu, 24 Jan 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Decomposition space theory and shrinking: examples [11]

Video [12]

Tue, 29 Jan 2013

16:30 - 18:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Sphere to sphere theorem [13]

Video [14]

Thu, 31 Jan 2013

16:30 - 17:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

4-manifolds circa 1974: surgery and h-cobordism, finding dual spheres [15]

Video [16]

Tue, 05 Feb 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Casson handles [17]

Video [18]

Tue, 12 Feb 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Exploring Casson handles and their variants, reimbedding [19]

Video [20]

Wed, 13 Feb 2013

16:30 - 18:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Geometric control and the Design [21]

Video [22]

Thu, 14 Feb 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

A Casson handle variant is topologically standard [23]

Video [24]

Tue, 19 Feb 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Robert Edwards

My view on Mike's designs [25]

Video [26]

Wed, 20 Feb 2013

16:30 - 19:00

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Mike Freedman

Question and Answer Session [27]

Video [28]

Mon, 15 Apr 2013

12:00 - 13:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

R. Edwards

The birth of DST: Bing's 1952 exotic involution of the 3-sphere [29]

Video 1 [30] Video 2 [31]

Mon, 22 Apr 2013

12:00 - 13:30

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

R. Edwards

Bing shrinking and triangulations of manifolds [32]

Video 1 [33] Video 2 [34]

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