Branched covers of spheres II

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Sudipta Kolay – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Justin Lanier
Continuing from last time, we will discuss Hilden and Montesinos' result that every smooth closed oriented three manifold is a three fold branched cover over the three sphere, and also there is a representation by bands.