Braids, Resolvent Degree and Hilbert’s 13th Problem

February 19 - 21, 2019

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Jesse Wolfson (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

After Abel
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Alexander Merkurjev (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Essential Dimension I

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Jesse Wolfson (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Resolvent Degree and Classical Solutions
PDF Presentation

 
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:20
Askold Khovanskii (University of Toronto)

Topological approach to 13th Hilbert problem
PDF Presentation

 
4:30 - 6:00 Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Alexander Merkurjev (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Essential Dimension II

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Hélène Esnault (Freie Universität Berlin)

Arithmetic subspaces of moduli spaces of rank one local systems

 
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Anatoly Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago )

Asymptotic of invariants of quasi-projective fundamental groups.
PDF Presentation

 
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 6:00 Problem session

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Jesse Wolfson (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Resolvent Degree and the Search for Lower Bounds
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Alexander Suciu (Northeastern University)

Braids, hyperplane arrangements, and Milnor fibrations
PDF Presentation

 
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Alexander Duncan (University of South Carolina)

Finite Groups of Low Essential Dimension

 
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:20