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Intro Talk - Knots and minimal genus surfaces

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Tue, Oct 27 2015, 11:00AM

We will investigate the relationship between knots and surfaces in S^3, beginning with Seifert's algorithm and continuing on to newer techniques. Next, we will discuss how to extend these ideas into higher dimensions.