Hello Sage mentors and fellow posters,
My name Jason Suagee and I'm a 4th year PhD student in mathematics at George Washington University in Washington DC. I am primarily interested in working on a javascript editor for manipulating knot diagrams as part of the knot theory project. My background in knot theory comes mostly from Rolfsen's classical Knots and Links book, which was the primary textbook for a two semester course in knot theory that I am currently taking this academic year. In my own work I focus on symmetric combinatorial decompositions of 3-manifolds, which is a cross between low dimensional topology and topological graph theory. Where this intersects with knot theory is that much of knot theory is actually used as a tool to describe 3-manifolds. In particular, one of the most useful methods to present a 3-manifold is by performing Dehn surgery on the components of a link in S^3. So manipulation of link diagrams can be a big part of what low dimensional topologists do on a regular basis. But manipulating a link diagram on paper can be a real headache, as I have found out this year. It would be beneficial if there was a graphical way by computer to do these manipulations. I have thought out a rough framework with which to approach this design problem and will share it in the post below. By the way, I have been a Sage user for the past 4 years and love it! I was quite happy to sport a Sage sticker at the joint math meeting this year in Baltimore. Best, Jason [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
