G&T Pre-Talk: Orderability of Knot Groups

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar Pre-talk
Time
Monday, December 2, 2019 - 12:45pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Speaker
Jonathan Johnson – The University of Texas at Austin – jjohnson@math.utexas.edu – https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/jjohnson/aboutme.html
Organizer
Miriam Kuzbary

 I will discuss the orderability of the fundamental groups of knot complements including known results, a useful technique using some ideas of Baumslag, and some interesting questions that have recently arisen from this study.