CSUN Algebra, Number Theory, and Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Biquandle Virtual Bracket Quivers

Sam Nelson
Claremont McKenna College

Wednesday    08 April 2026    2:45 pm–3:45 pm
Live Oak Hall 1328 and via Zoom meeting

Knot theory seeks to understand the ways that objects can be embedded in an ambient space. To this end we seek knot invariants, mathematical tools we can use to probe the structure of knots. In this talk, joint work with Pitzer College students Kazuma Okada and Rion Otsuka, we will introduce an infinite family of new knot invariants defined using ideas from abstract algebra, combinatorics, category theory and more.