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Intersection theory for Whitney towers
Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Peter Teichner, UC Berkeley |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, May 5 2009, 4:10PM |
We'll first explain joint work with Rob Schneiderman on a geometric interpretation of Milnor invariants in terms of intersection trees of Whitney towers. Then we shall assume a conjecture of Levine and a geometric conjecture to completely compute the filtration of classical links induced by Whitney towers (of various orders). The latter is joint with Jim Conant and Rob Schneiderman.