What is a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold, and why should I care?

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Dr. Stavros Garoufalidis – School of Math – stavros@math.gatech.edu
Organizer
Robert Rahm
Hyperbolic 3-manifolds is a great class of 3-dimensional geometric objects with interesting topology, a rich source of examples (practially one for every knot that you can draw), with arithmetically interesting volumes expressed in terms of dialogarithms of algebraic numbers, and with computer software that allows to manipulate them. Tired of abstract existential mathematics? Interested in concrete 3-dimensional topology and geometry? Or maybe Quantum Topology? Come and listen!