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Knots, Surfaces, and 3-manifolds

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Robin Wilson, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Wed, Apr 26 2006, 12:10PM

In this talk I will give brief introduction to the closely related subjects of knot theory and 3-manifold topology. I will also discuss recent results about the existence of closed incompressible surfaces in knot complements.