The Jones slopes of a knot

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech – stavros@math.gatech.eduhttp://www.math.gatech.edu/~stavros
Organizer
Stavros Garoufalidis
I will discuss a conjecture that relates the degree of the Jones polynomial of a knot and its parallels with the slopes of incompressible surfaces in the knot complement. I will present examples, as well as computational challenges.