Alex Zupan, University of Nebraska
Visualizing knotted surfaces in dimension four
Date:
Time:
4:00 pm –
4:50 pm
Location:
Avery Hall
Room: 115
Classical knot theory considers embedded loops in 3-dimensional space up to smooth deformations that don’t bend or break the loop. In dimension four, the interesting knotted objects are not loops (which are 1-dimensional) but rather surfaces (which …
