{"id":575,"date":"2023-03-08T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=575"},"modified":"2023-03-08T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:04:37","slug":"erika-beserra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2023\/03\/08\/erika-beserra\/","title":{"rendered":"#46: Knots and Unknots with Erika Beserra &#8217;22, Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Take a circular hair tie and set it on a table. That&#8217;s an &#8220;unknot&#8221;. Pick it up, cut it, twist it into a knot and then reconnect the cut ends, and now you&#8217;ve got the kind of knot that mathematicians study. Follow along as Erika takes us on a brief journey into her thesis focusing on knot theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed community members can read Erika&#8217;s thesis, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/i\/e4688b4e-d55b-46c4-a30e-0ebab9dd393c\">Khovanov Homology: Putting Pants on Knots<\/a>,\u201d online in the Electronic Theses Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1464317308&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/erika-beserra\" title=\"#46: Knots and Unknots with Erika Beserra '22, Mathematics\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">#46: Knots and Unknots with Erika Beserra &#8217;22, Mathematics<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a circular hair tie and set it on a table. That&#8217;s an &#8220;unknot&#8221;. Pick it up, cut it, twist it into a knot and then reconnect the cut ends, and now you&#8217;ve got the kind of knot that mathematicians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2023\/03\/08\/erika-beserra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episode","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}