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As was discussed in an older news post, there exists a double-covering of the boundary of a torus onto the boundary of a ball – essentially a way for us to translate things on the surface of a ball to … Continue reading →

A lot was covered last Friday in terms of pushing the project in a new direction. First – in what was admittedly quite the aside – I learned from Dr. Errthum what exactly a “pair of pants” was in topological … Continue reading →

Last Friday Dr. Errthum and I discussed making the “Knee Bone” from a basic tangle with three positive crossings. To make a long story short, it didn’t work out. Turns out that in order to make the knee bone (without … Continue reading →

My project began as an exploration of rational tangles, and since then has ballooned out to cover other areas related to them. Since then it’s also began taking a look at braid groups, representations of braid groups (in particular Lawrence-Krammer … Continue reading →