Rational Tangles

Series
Undergraduate Seminar
Time
Monday, September 23, 2019 - 3:00pm for
Location
Skiles 171
Speaker
Jennifer Hom – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Neha Gupta Enid Steinbart

A knot is a smooth embedding of a circle into R^3. Closely related are tangles, which are properly embedded arcs in a 3-ball. We will model certain tangles using jump ropes and relate this to Conway's classification of rational tangles.