- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, November 8, 2017 - 1:55pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Agniva Roy – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Jennifer Hom
The Lickorish Wallace Theorem states that any closed 3-manifold is the result of a +/- 1-surgery on a link in S^3. I shall discuss the relevant definitions, and present the proof as outlined in Rolfsen's text 'Knots and Links' and Lickorish's 'Introduction to Knot Theory'.