CMS Jeffery-Williams Lecture

EDWARD BIERSTONE AND PIERRE MILMAN, University of Toronto
Two short talks on singularities in geometry and analysis: 1. Resolution of singularities; 2. Geometry and differentiable functions [PDF]

1.  Progress on algorithms for canonical resolution of singularities. Applications and open problems.

2.  Solutions of problems of Whitney, Thom and Glaeser on composition and extension of differentiable functions; surprising connections to real-analytic geometry.