In Honor of Nobel Laureate Dr. Aaron Ciechanover
These talks are a short introduction to knot theory from a combinatorial point of view and with an eye towards applications to Natural Science. The talks are self-contained and form a short introductory course in knot theory.
1. Introduction to knots and unknots, Reidemeister moves, linking numbers, Fox coloring to detect knotting and linking. Rational tangles and fractions via coloring. Link,Twist, Writhe and DNA.
