Graduate Student Seminar-Knot theory and parallelizable manifolds

Date and Time: Tuesday, January 25th, 1-2pm

Place: Zoom
Zoom link:https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/j/92957649236?pwd=YmZIYytSUVVwcU1RdjZHYkNFak10U…

Speaker:  Dionne Ibarra, GWU

Title: Knot theory and parallelizable manifolds

Abstract: In this talk we will introduce various research topics and a book produced by the knot theory group at GWU. We will then focus on an exploratory talk on parallelizable and stably parallelizable manifolds and end on a discussion about how knot theory can be used to prove Stiefel’s theorem; all orientable 3-manifolds are parallelizable.