Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres and the Kervaire Invariant Problem
Speaker:
Zhouli Xu (UCLA)
Date and Time:
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 10:40am to 11:30am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
I will survey the computations of stable homotopy groups of spheres, recent advances using motivic homotopy theory, their applications to the study of smooth structures on spheres, and the resolution of the final case of the Kervaire invariant problem in dimension 126.
