Is the Conway knot slice? (After Lisa Piccirillo)
Channel: Richard E Borcherds
Date: 2021-02-04

This is a talk on the recent work by Lisa Piccirillo showing that the Conway know is not a slice knot. We first review the definitions of the Conway know and slice knots, and then give an overview of her proof. 


The paper on this by Lisa Piccirillo can be found at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.02923.pdf