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Winter, 2022

Instructor: Dr. H. Boden, HH/313, ext. 23428
Classtime: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-1:00pm
Office Hours: Friday 10:30am and by appointment

Course Outline

Announcements:

Assignment due March 29. For the knots 6_1 and 6_2, determine Wirtinger presentations for their knot groups. Find 2 generator, 1 relator presentations for the groups. Use Fox derivatives to compute the Alexander polynomial for these two knots.

The presentations will be scheduled in early April, during the last two weeks of classes.

Assessment:

A student's grade will be determined by Homework Assignments, Independent project, Midterm, and the Final Exam according to the following percentages:

25% Assignments  
25% Independent project  
20% Midterm Test  
30% Final Exam

Class Notes:
week 1   01/11/22   01/13/22
week 2   01/18/22   01/20/22
week 3   01/25/22   01/27/22
week 4   02/01/22   02/03/22  
week 5   02/08/22   02/10/22  
week 6   02/15/22   02/17/22  
week 7   03/01/22   03/05/22  
week 9   03/15/22   03/17/22  
week 10   03/22/22   03/24/22

Class Lectures (mp4s):
week 2   01/18/22   01/20/22
week 3   01/25/22   01/27/22
week 4   02/01/22   02/03/22
week 8   03/05/22