Arbeitstagung Bonn 2013. In Memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch

Ballmann, Werner and Blohmann, Christian and Faltings, Gerd and Teichner, Peter and Zagier, Don, eds. (2016) Arbeitstagung Bonn 2013. In Memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch. Progress in Mathematics, 319 . Birkhäuser, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-319-43648-7

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Abstract

The first Arbeitstagung was organized by Friedrich Hirzebruch in 1957. The six participants were Michael Atiyah, Hans Grauert, Alexander Grothendieck, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Nicolaas Kuiper, and Jacques Tits. Already at the first Arbeitstagung the principle was established which was to become its most distinctive feature: The program was not determined beforehand by the organizers, but during the meeting by all participants in an open discussion, albeit skillfully guided by Hirzebruch. The curiosity about who would be speaking and on what topic was part of the excitement of this conference series, which quickly grew in popularity, reaching well over 250 participants in later years. More importantly, the spontaneous proposal of talks made it possible to always cover the latest developments in mathematics. Many important results, such as the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, were first introduced to the larger mathematics community at the Arbeitstagung. Moreover, it meant that the conferences were not confined to a specific topic, representing over the years almost all fields of mathematics.

The Arbeitstagung 2013 was dedicated to the memory of Friedrich Hirzebruch, who passed away on May 27, 2012. This volume contains contributions from speakers and participants, covering a variety of topics from algebraic geometry, topology, differential geometry, operator theory, and representation theory. We hope that it still captures some of the unique character and spirit of Fritz Hirzebruch’s original Arbeitstagung.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Research > Publications
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Date Deposited:	22 Dec 2016 12:48
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2016 12:48
URI:	https://hirzebruch.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/id/eprint/253

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