Seminar series
Date
Wed, 21 Nov 2018
16:00
16:00
Location
C1
Speaker
Mehdi Yazdi
Organisation
Oxford University
I will discuss the basics of normal surface theory, and how they were used to give an algorithm for deciding whether a given diagram represents the unknot. This version is primarily based on Haken's work, with simplifications from Schubert and Jaco-Oertel.