{"id":317,"date":"2011-03-22T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:40:23","slug":"math-colloquium-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/2011\/03\/22\/math-colloquium-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next Math Colloquium will be held <strong>Tuesday, April 19<\/strong>, from <strong>3:30-4:20<\/strong> in <strong>VH1228<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mike Fitzpatrick, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, will speak on <strong>An Introduction to Knot Theory<\/strong>.\u00a0 An abstract of the talk follows.\u00a0 Afterward he will be able to answer questions about graduate study at the University of Iowa.\u00a0 <strong>Refreshments will be provided!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>\r\n<pre>Knot theory is an active area of research that that has been around\r\nfor a while, but has experienced a recent surge of interest.  I \r\nwill give a very brief overview of the history of knot theory as \r\nwell as why we care about knots today.  I will also talk about some\r\nknot basics like Reidemeister moves and knot invariants.  I will \r\ntalk more about a few knot invariants that I find particularly \r\ninteresting or nice to work with.  The audience members need not \r\nhave a mathematical background to follow the talk.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Math Colloquium will be held Tuesday, April 19, from 3:30-4:20 in VH1228.\u00a0 Mike Fitzpatrick, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, will speak on An Introduction to Knot Theory.\u00a0 An abstract of the talk follows.\u00a0 Afterward he will be able to answer questions about graduate study at the University of Iowa.\u00a0 Refreshments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}