- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 12:20pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Thang Le – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Trevor Gunn
A knot is a simple closed
curve in the 3-space. Knots appeared as one of the first objects of
study in topology. At first knot theory was rather isolated in
mathematics.
Lately due to newly discovered invariants and newly established
connections to other branches of mathematics, knot theory has become an
attractive and fertile area where many interesting, intriguing ideas
collide. In this talk we discuss a new class of knot
invariants coming out of the Jones polynomial and an algebra of
surfaces based on knots (skein algebra) which has connections to many
important objects including hyperbolic structures of surfaces and
quantum groups. The talk is elementary.