Event time:
Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 12:30pm to Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 8:00pm
Location:
431 DL
Speaker:
John Armstrong
Speaker affiliation:
Yale
Event description:
The extension of the knot group $\pi_1(S^3 - K)$ to the category of
tangles is introduced via a new category-theoretic construction. Through
this presentation, a new avenue of proof for results about knot groups is
opened.