Hello everyone,

Today Ken Baker is coming by (virtually of course). His title and abstract are below.

Title: The Morse-Novikov number of knots: connected sums and cabling 

Speaker: Ken Baker, University of Miami 

Date: Oct 14, 2020 

Time: 3:45 PM 

Room: Virtual meeting: https://meet.google.com/frv-bgow-byi

Abstract: We show the Morse-Novikov number of knots in S 3 is additive under connected sum and unchanged by cabling, answering a question of M. Boileau and C. Weber as communicated by A. Pajitnov.