Reducible surgeries and the cabling conjecture

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - 9:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Andrew McCullough – Georgia Institute of Technology – andrew.mccullough@gatech.edu
Organizer
Andrew McCullough
We will describe some recent work of Lidman, Sivek, and Yasui as it pertains to the cabling conjecture. This is a question about which Dehn surgeries in S^3 yeild reducible 3-manifolds.