Word: knots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anne-Marie Oreskovich '99 spoke about her research in knot theory and the Unique Prime Decomposition of Knots Theorem, which states, "No matter how ugly a knot is, provided that it's tame, [it] can be decomposed into a product of prime knots...
Oreskovich, who is writing a senior thesis based on her research, also works on tiling research with a professor at MIT. She said she chose to write about knot theory because of its many practical applications...
McMullen says his work in complex dynamics has lately turned his research in the direction of knot theory--an area that at first seemed unrelated to fractals and chaos...
...Crimson controlled the pace of the game almost from the opening kick, but its efforts did not pay off until freshman forward Colleen Moore trickled a shot past Penn keeper Anne Kluetmeier 24:22 into the second half to knot the game at one apiece...
Whisper it low -- bipartisanship is coming back in fashion. Just when Capitol Hill looked as if it couldn't get any more riven over the Clinton impeachment process, the Republican leadership has made a number of concessions to disgruntled Democrats -- and a tiny knot of centrist lawmakers from both sides of the highly partisan House Judiciary Committee are making a show, at least, of working together...