What is the loop expansion of the Jones polynomial?

Series
Geometry Topology Working Seminar
Time
Friday, September 12, 2008 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Stavros Garoufalidis – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
Organizer
Stavros Garoufalidis
We will discuss, with examples, the Jones polynomial of the two simplest knots (the trefoil and the figure eight) and its loop expansion.