April 3, 2019
4:30 pm
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5:30 pm
Math Building 052
Title: Curious Quandles
Speaker: Alissa Crans (Loyola Marymount University)
Abstract: Motivated by questions arising in starkly different contexts, we'll experience firsthand how quandles have been discovered and rediscovered over the past century. We will illustrate the history of this theory through numerous examples and survey recent developments.