Mathematical Institute of Gdansk University,
Gdansk Branch of the Mathematical Institute
Polish Academy of Sciences

present

The Fourteenth Andrzej Jankowski Memorial Lecture

delivered by

Peter Teichner
(Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn)

Whitney towers in 4-manifolds

June 15 2012, 2:15 pm
Mathematical Institute of the University of Gdańsk
Auditorium no. 2

The lecture commemorates Gdańsk mathematician
Professor Andrzej Jankowski (1939 - 1975)

Previous speakers:

2011: Dominic D. Joyce (Oxford University)
2010: Alexey Bondal (University of Aberdeen)
2009: Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
2008: Martin Bridson (University of Oxford)
2007: Michael Weiss (University of Aberdeen)
2006: Michael Kapovich (University of California, Davis)
2005: Tomasz Mrowka (MIT)
2004: Maxim Kontsevich (IHES)
2003: Sylvain Cappell (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
2002: Oleg Viro (University of Uppsala)
2001: Christophe Soulé (IHES)
2000: Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago)
1999: Graeme Segal (University of Cambridge)
Scientific commitee: Stefan Jackowski (Warsaw), Andrzej Ranicki (Edinburgh), Andrzej Szczepański (Gdańsk)
Organizer: Mathematical Institute of the University of Gdańsk
Address: Instytut Matematyki Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
ul. Wita Stwosza 57
80-952 Gdańsk

email: ajlec@paula.univ.gda.pl