May 12 Celebration of Greek Women in Mathematics
Program:
18:00-18:15 Welcome
18:15-18:45 Prof. Hara Charalambous (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Title: Γυναίκες και Μαθηματικά: υπερβαίνοντας τα "εσκαμμένα", αποσπάσματα.
18:50-19:25 Prof. Effie Kalfagianni (Michigan State University)
Title: Knot crossing numbers and colored Jones polynomials
Abstract: It has long been known that the quadratic term in the degree of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot is bounded above in terms of the crossing number of the knot. We show that this bound is sharp if and only if the knot is adequate. As an application of our result we determine the crossing numbers of broad families of non-adequate prime satellite knots. More specifically, we exhibit minimal crossing number diagrams for untwisted Whitehead doubles of zero-writhe adequate knots. This allows us to determine the crossing number of untwisted Whitehead doubles of any amphicheiral adequate knot, including, for instance, the Whitehead doubles of the connected sum of any alternating knot with its mirror image. We also determine the crossing number of the connected sum of any adequate knot with an untwisted Whitehead double of a zero-writhe adequate knot.
19:30-20:30 Discussion/Social Hour
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Our event is one of the 125 events that will be Celebrating Women in Mathematics around the world on May 12, 2022: See https://may12.womeninmaths.org
May 12th, 1977, is the birthdate of Maryam Mirzakhani. Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded the Fields Medal for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces, becoming the first woman, and the first Iranian, to be recognised for her mathematical achievements by this top mathematical prize. She died tragically from cancer in 2017 at the early age of 40.
On July 31st, 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, the Women’s Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society presented to the participants of the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, (WM)², a proposal that Maryam Mirzakhani’s birthday – May 12th – be recognised and supported to celebrate women in mathematics.
Για την ελληνική εκδοχή της σελίδας, πατήστε το κουμπί και μεταβείτε στο μενού "Συνέδρια και Δραστηριότητες", και μετά "Ελληνικό May 12".