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## Hot Topics: Kervaire invariant October 25, 2010 - October 29, 2010

Oct 25, 2010
Monday
 09:25 AM - 09:40 AM Welcome 09:40 AM - 10:40 AM History of the Kervaire Invariant One Problem John Jones (University of Warwick) 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM Tea 11:10 AM - 12:10 PM Construction of the Kervaire Classes John Jones (University of Warwick) 12:10 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM An Overview of the proof Douglas Ravenel (University of Rochester) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Introduction to Equivariant Homotopy I J. May 04:30 PM - 05:50 PM Reception
Oct 26, 2010
Tuesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM Introduction to Equivariant Homotopy II John Greenlees (University of Sheffield) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Introduction to the Slice Tower: The Slice Theorem Michael Hill (University of Virginia) 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM The Homology of Slice Cells: the Gap Theorem Teena Gerhardt (Michigan State University) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM The Slice Spectral Sequence for $$C_2$$ and $$C_4$$ Igor Kriz
Oct 27, 2010
Wednesday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM The norm functor and $$MU^{((G))}$$ Haynes Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Distinguished Classes in the Underlying Homotopy of $$MU^{((G))}$$ Nitya Kitchloo (Johns Hopkins University)
Oct 28, 2010
Thursday
 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Introduction to the Adams-Novikov Spectral Sequence: Ravenel's Proof for Primes > 3 Mark Behrens (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Tea 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Proof of the Detection Theorem Douglas Ravenel (University of Rochester) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Differentials in the Slice Spectral Sequence: the Periodicity Theorem Po Hu (Wayne State University) 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Q & A Session Michael Hill (University of Virginia), Michael Hopkins (Harvard University), Douglas Ravenel (University of Rochester) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea
Oct 29, 2010
Friday
 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM The Homotopy Fixed Points Theorem Andrew Blumberg (University of Texas) 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Tea 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM From the Reduction Theorem to the Slice Theorem Daniel Dugger 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Lunch 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Proof of the Reduction Theorem I Michael Hill (University of Virginia) 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM Tea 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Proof of the Reduction Theorem II Michael Hopkins (Harvard University)