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.