- Series
- Research Horizons Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Prof. Jennifer Hom – School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology – jhom6@math.gatech.edu – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~jhom6/
- Organizer
- Hangfan (Frank) Li
Please Note: Food and Drinks will be provided before the seminar.
A knot is a smooth embedding of S^1 into S^3 or R^3. There is a natural way to "add" two knots, called the connected sum. Under this operation, the set of knots forms a monoid. We will quotient by an equivalence relation called concordance to obtain a group, and discuss what is known about the structure of this group.