Hello everyone,

Eric Towers is speaking in topology seminar today.

He will be discussing his own work. His title and abstract are below:

Title:Building censuses of links in lens spaces Speaker: Eric Towers, Oklahoma State Date: Feb 25, 2020 Time: 3:30 PM Room: MSCS 509 Abstract: The theory and automation of the exhaustive study of links (including knots) in ^3 is understood. Extending these methods to completely enumerate links in specified ambient spaces other than S^3 is less well understood. For any fixed lens space L(p, q), we describe a method for producing all links with a prescribed complexity in the ambient L(p, q). We demonstrate progress in software to automate the enumeration and feature extraction of lens space link complements and their fillings.

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Neil R. Hoffman Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics 523 Math Science Building Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078-1058 405-744-7791 http://math.okstate.edu/people/nhoffman