GAUSS Today

The GAUSS speaker today is Mike Fitzpatrick, and the title of his talk
is "N-Colorability of Knots and Links."  In a recent interview Mike
had this to say about his talk:

Tricolorability serves as a common first look at knot invariants.  I
will give an introduction of knots, knot diagrams, the Reidemeister
moves and tricolorability.  I will then generalize tricolorability to
n-colorability for any integer n > 1.  Naturally, n-colorability is
also a knot invariant.  I will end with some (I think) interesting
thoughts on colorability.  This talk will assume no prior knowledge of
anything at all and so is accessible to everyone.

So come to GAUSS today, Oct. 5, at 4:30 PM in room 118 MLH.

GAUSS spots have started to fill up, but we still have a few spots
available.  Contact us if you would like to talk, and for more
information check http://math.uiowa.edu/~rkilgore/GAUSS.html for more
information.

Thanks and have a pleasant day,
Ross and Trent