Location: Jabara Hall, Room 127

The second talk in the Math for Everyone Lecture Series will take place at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 3. Our speaker will be Professor Colin Adams from Williams College.

Title: Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing
by Sir Randolph Bacon III, cousin-in-law to Colin Adams

Abstract:
Being a tale of adventure on the high seas, involving great risk to the tale teller, and how an understanding of the mathematical theory of knots saved his bacon. No nautical or mathematical background assumed.

About the speaker:
Colin Adams is the Thomas T. Read Professor of mathematics at Williams College. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1983. His work spans a number of areas of geometry and topology including the study of knots and hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In addition to his research work, Adams is known for his expository work. He has written a number of textbooks such as The Knot Book and most recently The Tiling Book. As a columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer, he has written many interesting stories in his Mathematically Bent column, which have been collected into two books, Riot at the Calc Exam and Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?

Following the talk, there will be an informal Q&A session and light refreshments, providing for further discussion and engagement.

For more details about the Math for Everyone Lecture Series, please visit:
https://sites.google.com/view/yuehjulin/event-and-outreach/math-for-everyone

The lecture series is sponsored by NSF and by the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics at Wichita State University.