Classification of Legendrian twist knots

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 269
Speaker
Vera Vertesi – MSRI
Organizer
John Etnyre
Legendrian knots are knots that can be described only by their projections(without having to separately keep track of the over-under crossinginformation): The third coordinate is given as the slope of theprojections. Every knot can be put in Legendrian position in many ways. Inthis talk we present an ongoing project (with Etnyre and Ng) of thecomplete classification of Legendrian representations of twist knots.