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Knots in Washington XXVII; 3rd Japan-USA Workshop in Knot Theory
January 9-11, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Yoshiyuki Ohyama (TWCU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Kouki Taniyama (Waseda and GWU), Tatsuya Tsukamoto (Osaka IT), Hao Wu (GWU), Akira Yasuhara (Tokyo GU)

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Obstructions to slicing Bing doubles
by
Cornelia Van Cott
University of San Francisco

Much recent attention has focused on characterizing when a Bing double is slice. We will discuss recent progress toward achieving this goal using a new tool called covering link calculus.

Date received: November 20, 2008

Copyright © 2008 by the author(s). The author(s) of this work and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Topology Atlas. Document # caxq-27.