On Simon’s conjecture for knots

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:30am to Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 7:00pm
Location: 
LOM 201
Speaker: 
Alan Reid
Speaker affiliation: 
Univerity of Texis, Austin
Event description: 

Simon’s conjecture asserts that a knot group surjects only
finitely many distinct knot groups. We discuss a proof of this for a class of small hyperbolic knots that includes all 2-bridge hyperbolic
knots.