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Seminar Details

Knot Theory

  • Start Date: July 20, 2004
  • Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 2:00 PM
  • Organizers: Brenda Latka
  • Seminar Series: REU Seminar
  • Presenter(s): Paul Ellis - Rutgers University
  • Event Location: DIMACS Seminar room
  • Abstract: So the idea in Knot theory is to find invariants. This lets us prove that 2 distinct knot are, in fact, distinct. The hard part is to prove that an object is a knot invariant. I will discuss 1 Combinatorial invariant and 2 Algebraic invariants of knots.