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DESCRIPTION:Andrew Senger\, Harvard University\n\n\nTitle: Classification o
 f highly-connected manifolds\n\n\nAbstract: The problem of classifying smo
 oth\, closed\, highly-connected n-manifolds (for n \\geq 5) up to diffeomo
 rphism has a long history in the study of geometric topology—in the 1950
 s\, Milnor's study of this problem led to his discovery of exotic spheres.
  In this talk\, I will survey this classical problem and discuss its solut
 ion\, which builds on the work of many people\, including Wall and Stolz. 
 This solution\, obtained in joint works with Burklund\, Hahn and Zhang\, r
 elies on modern techniques in the higher algebra of E_\\infty-rings. Time 
 permitting\, I will also explain how to generalize this classification fro
 m highly-connected manifolds to the wider class of metastably-connected ma
 nifolds.
GEO:34.022409;-118.291027
LOCATION:Kaprielian Hall (KAP)\, 414
SUMMARY:Special Colloquium: Classification of highly-connected manifolds
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 ion-of-highly-connected-manifolds
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