Timeline for Problem suggestions for polymath for undergraduates research
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| Mar 29, 2022 at 7:36 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | The first link in Charles' comment is broken, here is a replacement: arxiv.org/abs/math/0612803 | |
| Nov 21, 2010 at 19:15 | comment | added | JSE | We just had a beautiful colloquium by Greg Buck about exactly this: gregorybuck.com Lots of beautiful movies of knots relaxing via gradient flow to their minimal-energy configuration. (But at present, it seems very hard to prove that knots can't get trapped at a local minimum for the potential Buck uses.) | |
| Jul 10, 2010 at 20:43 | comment | added | Charles Siegel | Here's a survey they wrote front.math.ucdavis.edu/0612.5803 and the REU websites are at mtholyoke.edu/acad/math/past_projects.html I do recommend extra care be taken with any of the project papers...I remember finding mistakes in some of the older ones I read, and I vaguely remember looking back at my own a year later and being rather embarrassed by it... | |
| Jul 9, 2010 at 12:40 | comment | added | Bruce Westbury | @Charles, No, I have not seen anything in writing. Where do I find it? | |
| Jul 9, 2010 at 11:18 | comment | added | Charles Siegel | @Bruce, have you seen the stuff by Don O'Shea and Alan Durfee? I did an REU with them on polynomial knots four years or so ago, and we got some nice tricks for parameterizing knots starting with a knot diagram in the plane (so I guess whether this has been solved depends on what "unsatisfactory" means) | |
| Jul 9, 2010 at 6:18 | history | answered | Bruce Westbury | CC BY-SA 2.5 |