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Knots in Washington XLVII
January 20-21, 2019
George Washington University
Washington, DC, United States

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

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Braid index of knotted surfaces
by
Sudipta Kolay
Georgia Tech

Braided surfaces play a similar role in understanding the knotted surfaces in R^4, as classical braids for knots in R^3. In this talk, I will introduce the notion of braided surfaces, and discuss properties of braid index of knotted surfaces and contrast it with that of classical knots.

Date received: December 21, 2018

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