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SUMMARY:Critical Links and Unlinks - Kusner\, R (U Mass Amherst)
DTSTART:20121205T102000Z
DTEND:20121205T104000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:The configuration spaces Hopf_k or McCool_k of k-component Hop
 f-links or unlinks can be understood using extensions of Hatcher's proof o
 f the Smale Conjecture.  We will describe low-energy critical configuratio
 ns for Mbius energy or Ropelength on Hopf_k or McCool_k\, and sketch a pic
 ture of the bottom of the Morse-Smale complex for each. \n\n[This represen
 ts part of an ongoing project with Ryan Budney and John M. Sullivan]\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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