Abstract
The signature of a knot K in the 3-sphere is a classical invariant that gives a lower bound on the genera of
compact oriented surfaces in the 4-ball with boundary K. We say that K is hyperbolic if its complement
admits a complete, finite volume hyperbolic metric. I will explain how we have used methods from machine learning
to find an unexpected relationship between the signature and the cusp shape of a hyperbolic knot.
This is joint work with Alex Davies, Marc Lackenby, and Nenad Tomasev.