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Title:
The Signature and Natural Slope of Hyperbolic Knots

Speaker:
Marc Lackenby

Abstract:
Andras Juhasz has explained in his talk how machine learning was used to discover a previously unknown relationship between invariants in knot theory. This relationship is a connection between a classical knot invariant (the signature) and a new knot invariant (the natural slope) derived from hyperbolic geometry. In my talk, I will explain how this conjecture was formulated, verified in millions of cases, and then eventually disproved, and how two more refined conjectures were proved.

Link:
https://www.ias.edu/video/signature-and-natural-slope-hyperbolic-knots