Instructor: Dr. Isabel
Darcy
Office:B1H MLH
Phone: 335- 0778
Email: idarcy AT math.uiowa.edu
Office Hours:
MW 2:30 - 3:20pm, Th 12:30 - 2:30pm, and by appointment.
Syllabus
Wiki course WWW site
spring undergraduate research festival saturday, march 27, 2010
IMA Special Workshop Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications April 9, 2010
AMS Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, April 10-11
The 11th Annual Mathematics on the Northern Plains Undergraduate Conference, Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday, April 17, 2010 (application deadline April 8).
Math Bio Lunch, Tuesdays 12:30-1:20 PM in B11 MLH.
MSRI/PMMB Short Course: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Molecular and Cell Biology
IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology September 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
IMA Tutorial Mathematics of Nucleic Acids
IMA Tutorial Mathematics of Proteins
The shape of space, Jeffrey Weeks
Mathematical Sciences Institutes:
NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes
IAS/Park City Mathematics Program (PCMI)
PCMI Undergraduate Summer School Program
PCMI Secondary School Teachers Program (SSTP)
| Week 1 (1/19 - 1/22) | Wednesday: Intro to Knots |
| Friday: KnotPlot (pdf) and MathsciNet (in 301 MLH ) | |
| Week 2 (1/25 - 1/29) | Monday: Jon Simon |
| Wednesday: Jon Simon | |
| Friday: html and latex (in 301 MLH ) | |
| Week 3 (2/1 - 2/5) | Monday: Project Descriptions |
| Wednesday: Project Descriptions | |
| Friday: search engines, C programming (in 301 MLH ) | |
| Week 4 (2/8 - 2/12) | Monday: |
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| Friday: rational tangles | |
| Week 5 (2/15 - 2/19) | Monday: rational tangles in class hw rational tangles |
| Wednesday:rational tangles in class hw answers | |
| Friday: | |
| Week 6 (2/22 - 2/26) | Monday: note poor pdf conversion-missing negative signs |
| Wednesday: tangle equations, double branched covers | |
| Friday: double branched covers | |
| Week 7 (3/1 - 3/5) | Monday: |
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| Week 8 (3/8 - 3/12) | Monday: Unknotting number |
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| Friday: TopoICE C program | |
| Spring Break Week (3/15 - 3/19) | |
| Week 9 (3/22 - 3/26) | Monday: Guest speaker: Rob Scharein |
| Wednesday: complink.kps, complink3.kps, complink4.txt | |
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| Week 10 (3/29 - 4/2) | Monday: |
| Wednesday: Symmetries of rational links | |
| Friday: Lk = Tw + Wr and Xer | |
| Week 11 (4/5 - 4/9) | Monday: |
| Wednesday: Poster Practice | |
| Friday:Poster Practice | |
| April 10-11 | AMS meeting |
| Week 12 (4/12 - 4/16) | Monday: Xer + Ch 4 |
| Wednesday: Ch 4 | |
| Friday: Ch 4 | |
| Week 13 (4/19 - 4/23) | Monday: Ch 4 |
| Wednesday: Ch 4 | |
| Friday: Review | |
| Week 14 (4/26 - 4/30) | Monday: Exam 1 |
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| Week 15 (5/3 - 5/7) | Monday: Presentations |
| Wednesday: Presentations | |
| Friday: Presentations | |
| Final Exam Week (5/10 - 5/14) | 2:15 P.M. Friday, May 14 2010 |