- Series
- Geometry Topology Seminar
- Time
- Monday, November 30, 2009 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 269
- Speaker
- Stavros Garoufalidis – Georgia Tech – stavros@math.gatech.edu – http://www.math.gatech.edu/~stavros
- Organizer
- Stavros Garoufalidis
I will discuss a conjecture that relates the degree of the Jones polynomial of a knot and its parallels with the slopes of incompressible surfaces in the knot complement. I will present examples, as well as computational challenges.