knot theory - 4-genus of a 2-bridge link

Rasmussen and Lee's results say that the $s$ invariant of a 2-bridge knot will be just equal to the signature of the knot. So you can compute the signature of your knot to get a lower bound (there are extremely rapid ways of doing this from an alternating diagram). Unfortunately the only decent way to get an upper bound that I know of is by spotting a smooth surface! Good luck.

Remember that $s$ might not be the best you can do. In particular, among alternating knots, the figure 8 knot ($4_1$ in Rolfsen) has vanishing $s$ invariant (for example, because it is torsion in the concordance group) and yet it is not even slice if you allow your surfaces to be locally flat, let alone smooth.