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SUMMARY:Knot distortion and the geometry of surfaces [Lecture]
DTSTART:20251110T100000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sahana Vasudevan\n\nDistortion is a type of geometri
 c knot invariant introduced by Gromov in 1983. It measures the smallest bi
 -Lipschitz constant required to embed the knot in R^3. A basic question ab
 out distortion is: given an infinite family of knots\, how do we estimate 
 the growth of their distortion? In this talk\, I'll describe several resul
 ts proving lower bounds for knot distortion. I'll also describe some ideas
  to understand knot distortion\, that involve a connection with systolic g
 eometry\, as well as a connection with the combinatorics of curves on surf
 aces.\n\nhttps://math-events.uni-bonn.de/event/888/
LOCATION:MPIM\, Vivatsgasse\,  7 - Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for 
 Mathematics)
URL:https://math-events.uni-bonn.de/event/888/
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