MSCS Graduate Student Seminar
Fall 2000
October 6
SPEAKER: David Radford
TITLE: Beads and knots
ABSTRACT:What does sliding beads around a wire loop (which forms a knot)
have to do
with our ability to distinguish different knots? We will discuss a very
simple algorithm which leads to the construction of invariants of knots,
in particular to the construction of the Jones polynomial.