Seminar series
Date
Mon, 13 Nov 2017
17:00
17:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Brendan Owens
Organisation
Glasgow
I will report on a joint project with Frank Swenton whose goal is to develop an algorithm to determine whether an alternating knot is ribbon. We can’t do this yet but we have an algorithm that has been remarkably, and indeed mysteriously, successful in finding a great deal of new slice knots.