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The Knot Atlas
| Date | Speaker/Topic | Homework |
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| Jan 29 | Tom Peters Introduction: basic definitions, Tricolorability, higher dimensions |
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| Feb 5 | Adinah Ch. 2: Tabulating Knots (Dowker/Conway Notation) |
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| Feb 12 | Ahmet/Rachel Ch. 3: Invariants of Knots (unknotting/crossing/bridge numbers) |
Homework 1 |
| Feb 19 | Oleg/Charles Ch 4: Surfaces and Knots |
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| Feb 26 | Charles Ch 4: Surfaces with boundary |
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| Mar 4 | Eliza/Genevieve Ch 5: Types of Knots |
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| Mar 11 | Su/Eric Ch 6: Polynomials |
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| Mar 18 | ? |
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| Mar 25 | ? |
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| April 1 | Guan/Diana |
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| April 8 | Adinah/Eric/Diana Alternating Knots/?/? |
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| April 15 | Charles/Oleg Complexity/? |
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| April 22 | Ahmet/Su ?/Seifert Matrices, Alexander poly, signature |
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| April 29 | Rachel/Guan Graphs/Ribbons, slice knots |
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| May 5 | Eliza/Genevieve 3-manifolds/quaternions |