Lickorish, An Introduction to Knot Theory

Tentative Schedule:

Date	Topic	Presenter	Notes
September 15	intro/basics	Diana
September 21	braids	Joris
September 28	Seifert surfaces	Ian	Seifert Surfaces
October 5	classical invariants: genus, unknotting #, crossing #, (bridge #?), torus knots	Dale
October 12	Alexander-Conway polynomial, skein relations	Diana
October 19	Alexander module, linking #, Seifert matrix	Robin	see Rolfsen 7A,B, example 6B1; 5D; 8A,C.
October 26	more on the Alexander module	Robin	More Alexander (see also Rolfsen 7B, 8C)
November 2	-	-
November 9	Vassiliev (finite-type) invariants	Robin	Vassiliev
November 16	Jones polynomial	Dale
November 23	knot theory and number theory	Ian	Knots and Numbers
November 30	-	-
December 7	Khovanov homology	Danny
December 14	3-manifolds via surgery on S^3	Joris