Instructor: Dr. Isabel K. Darcy
Department of Mathematics and AMCS
University of Iowa
Office: online
Phone: 319-335- 0770
Email: isabel-darcy AT uiowa.edu
Office Hours: M 4:30 - 5:30pm and M 2:00 - 2:30pm, W 3:30-3:45pm, F 3:30-4:45pm online and by appointment.
TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE-ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE (click on date/section for pdf file of corresponding class material):
| Tentative Schedule | HW/Announcements | |
| Week 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8/24 | Intro + Guest Lecturer Rob Scharein: Knotplot |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page.
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| 8/26 | Lens spaces | |
| 8/28 | Double branched cover | |
| Week 2 | ||
| 8/31 | DNA Topology ( pptx ), annotated ( pptx ) |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. HW 1 due Friday 9/4 |
| 9/2 | DNA Topology annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 9/4 | Tangle Model of protein-bound DNA annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 3 | ||
| 9/7 | Holiday |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 9/9 | Tangle equations annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 9/11 | Solving tangle equations annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 4 | ||
| 9/14 | Sketches of Topology |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 9/16 | Guest Lecturer Rob Scharein: Knotplot | |
| 9/18 | Tangle equivalence annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 5 | ||
| 9/21 | Exam 1 |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 9/23 | DBC/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 9/25 | DBC/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 6 | ||
| 9/28 | DBC/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. HW 2: Discuss any of the following on ICON discussion 1.) Determine the possible rational tangles in the yellow ball after tangle surgery that corresponds to pL + qM Dehn surgery upstairs (see p 13 on 9/28 annotated slides).
2.) Relate tangle equations 3.) Calculate pi_1(L(a, b)). |
| 9/30 | DBC/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 10/2 | DBC/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 7 | ||
| 10/5 | DBC/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 10/7 | rational tangles/surgery annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 10/9 | rational tangles/surgery ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 8 | ||
| 10/12 | SFS |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 10/14 | SFS annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 10/16 | SFS ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 9 | ||
| 10/19 | SFS ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 10/21 | SFS ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| 10/23 | SFS ( pptx ) annotated ( pptx ) | |
| Week 10 | ||
| 10/26 | Exam 2 |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 10/28 | Puttipong Pongtanapaisan | |
| 10/30 | Jose Aranda Cuevas | |
| Week 11 | ||
| 11/2 | SFS, annotated |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 11/4 | Nick Connolly | |
| 11/6 | SFS, annotated | |
| Week 12 | ||
| 11/9 | Solving tangle equations, annotated |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 11/11 | Ethan Rooke | |
| 11/13 | 3-string tangle equations, annotated | |
| Week 13 | ||
| 11/16 | Andy Nguyen |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 11/18 | 3-string tangle equations II, annotated | |
| 11/20 | Mohamed Imad Bakhira | |
| Week 14 | ||
| 11/30 | Intro to Hyperbolic geometry |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. |
| 12/2 | ||
| 12/4 | Exam 3 | |
| Week 15 | ||
| 12/7 |
HW: post a question on our Icon discussion page. | |
| 12/9 | ||
| 12/11 | Annette Honken, EMC Insurance | |
| Final's week | ||
| NO Final exam | ||