Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
John Mosley, University of Kentucky
Title: The Jones Polynomial
Abstract: Knot Theory is a subject in topology that studies embeddings of $S^1$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We call these embeddings 'knots' (hence 'Knot Theory'). In this talk, we will discuss some of the basic ideas in the subject of Knot Theory. We will then discuss and give a construction for a useful knot invariant called the Jones Polynomial.
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