{"id":8572,"date":"2021-04-27T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/knotty-games\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T08:04:54","slug":"knotty-games","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/knotty-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Knotty Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>Allison Henrich, Professor within the Department of Mathematics at Seattle University will give a lecture about \u00ab\u00a0Knotty Games\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p><p>This lecture is part of the \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/math.uni.lu\/multiplicities\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiplicities<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb initiative launched by the\u00a0Department of Mathematics\u00a0at the University of Luxembourg.\u00a0Multiplicities is a broad audience seminar geared towards transversal topics whose aim is to highlight the diversity of mathematics and mathematicians.\u00a0It is especially intended for PhD students, interested in widening their horizons and is supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnr.lu\/projects\/geometry-probability-and-their-synergies\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">PRIDE Grant \u201cGeometry, Probability and their Synergies (GPS)<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"about-the-topic\"\n    >\nAbout the topic<\/h3>\n<p>Far too many people in this world are under the mistaken impression that math can&rsquo;t be fun. The aim of much of my research with student and faculty collaborators, in part, is to provide yet another counterexample to this claim. Our work combines a delightfully visual mathematical subject, knot theory, with one of the most common sources of fun: games. Motivated by the fascinating work of Ayaka Shimizu on an unknotting operation called the region crossing change and research of Ryo Hanaki on unusual types of knot diagrams called pseudodiagrams, we have invented and explored several knot games. In this talk, we will play these games on knot diagrams, developing both our spatial intuition and our understanding of the structure of knots along the way.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"about-the-speaker\"\n    >\nAbout the speaker<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allisonhenrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Allison Henrich<\/a>\u00a0is a Professor in Mathematics at the University of Seattle. In addition to her research activities, she has also authored and edited several large audience math books. In 2015, she was honored to be a recipient of both the Mathematical Association of America&rsquo;s Henry L. Alder Award for excellence in teaching and the Halmos-Ford Award for expository excellence. She won the Halmos-Ford Award a second time, in 2020. 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