{"id":360,"date":"2011-04-11T17:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/?p=360"},"modified":"2011-04-11T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:12:53","slug":"math-colloquium-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/mathcs\/2011\/04\/11\/math-colloquium-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next Math Colloquium will be held <strong>Thursday, April 21<\/strong>, from <strong>3:30-4:20<\/strong> in <strong>VH1228<\/strong>.\u00a0 (Note that this is a schedule change from an earlier post).\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<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Math Colloquium will be held Thursday, April 21, from 3:30-4:20 in VH1228.\u00a0 (Note that this is a schedule change from an earlier post).\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 [&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-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Math Colloquium - Math &amp; 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