Pretzel links and the Thurston polytope

Seminar: 
Geometry & Topology
Event time: 
Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 12:30pm to Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 8:00pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Joan Licata
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale
Event description: 

I will discuss the dual Thurston polytope for a family of pretzel links and
present a method of constructing norm-minimizing Seifert surfaces for the link
components.