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Geometry and Topology Seminar – Jie Chen – An invitation to the world of flat knots
	
 Nov 2, 2023 
 4:30PM to 5:30PM





	





























Date/Time

Date(s) - 02/11/2023
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm





Location: HH 312.


Speaker: Jie Chen (McMaster University)


Title: An invitation to the world of flat knots


Abstract:


Abstract: 


I will give a brief review of prior works on flat knot theory and then talk about some results we have in the attempt to push the boundary of flat knot tabulation.


I will present some examples comparing based matrices and (algebraic) sliceness of flat knots to the  Seifert matrices and (algebraic) sliceness of classic knots, and introduce a matrix-based method to calculate the Jones-Krushkal polynomial. I will present some conjectures about flat knot concordance.