Title: Performing Band Surgeries on Knots Using C++
Abstract: In this talk I will describe software that iteratively performs band surgeries on a knot to find an upper bound of a knot’s slice genus. This presentation will be given in two parts: representing a knot effectively in code, and having the computer perform band surgeries on the knot. The programming language we use to accomplish this task is C++. This is a work in Progress.
Advisor: Mark Hughes