9-Part Special Lecture Series from Professor Louis Kauffman
Please join us at WPI-SKCM² for our 9-part special lecture series on Knot Theory, prepared and presented by Professor Louis H. Kauffman!
This is a free and open lecture series that will be presented over 3 weeks, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from November 18th to December 6th. Each lecture will take place from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. You can find the detailed schedule and other information on the flier attached below.
Each lecture will be hybrid, so you can join us in person at our offices in the VBL building on Hiroshima University Campus, or on Zoom through the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2022111100
(Meeting Code: 2022111100 Passcode: skcm2)
We encourage everyone who is interested to join us. To get the most out of this learning experience, please find the following reading provided by Professor Kauffman through this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M1h56-YINH-x4v73lhx_ZCITPUVwFrE6?usp=drive_link
If you are not a member of WPI-SKCM² and would like to attend in-person, we ask that you sign in at the venue for our records. If you are attending via Zoom, please be sure to display your full name and affiliation.
*** Lecture Archive ***
“Part 1: Introduction to knots and unknots, how to unknot a knot. Detour moves, Reidemeister moves, linking numbers, Fox coloring to detect knotting and linking” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look and check the discription for links to the powerpoint and archive of the whiteboard:
https://youtu.be/OBKsnDplWIE?si=VgT1IFSnRGZiVLLK
“Part 2: Generalizing Coloring to Algebraic Invariants” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/7YUBvPIIQy4?si=WnX-UQ4ZAascAn__
“Part 3: Introduction to Homology Theory via Curves on Surfaces and also via Chain Complexes: Application to Alexander Polynomial via Seifert Pairing” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/ldESdl0GUT4?si=345f6bZ82hlhfjDM
“Part 4: More About Alexander Polynomial and Fox Calculus and Covering Spaces: Alexander Polynomial via these Methods” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/xftMxslA7DM?si=43AXA4P1YMQY3-g1
“Part 5: Introduction to the Bracket Polynomial, etc.” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/_YkoIyWAkPM?si=3tHuYVcn2qQ78zHJ
“Part 6: State Summation Models for Bracket Polynomial, etc.” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/MzRJjwnA1L4?si=qK0-HS0R_yBj5Z1I
“Part 7: Intro to the Khavonov Homology via Working with… etc.” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/t62e3pIq5zU?si=d_TO6gO34vLkPGL3
“Part 8: More about Khovanov Homology, Lee Homology and the Rasmussen Invariant” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look:
https://youtu.be/UVAnqcDc6Ac?si=s_kZlCXvnvbiIv7x
“Part 9: Applications of Rasmussen invariant to reconnection numbers for knotted vortices. Discussion of other applications of knot theory” has been uploaded to our Youtube channel! Please take a look: