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-byihttps://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeet.google.com%2Ffrv-bgow-byi&data=02%7C01%7Cneil.r.hoffman%40okstate.edu%7C3d34ca3e99084d0146f408d86a2a2ad8%7C2a69c91de8494e34a230cdf8b27e1964%7C0%7C0%7C637376076621618387&sdata=taedZh4xHLX90EmC%2B46jEzGwY%2F7xLUEy47HWYeakSdE%3D&reserved=0 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.

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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