Reed Caron '13 acknowledged for presenting on the concept of virtual knots

Reed Caron (B.S. 2013, Grinnell College) presents The Jones Polynominal of Spherical Virtual Knots today at Grinnell College. The concept of a virtual knot was first discovered by Louis Kauffman in 1999. A virtual knot is a knot whose diagram possesses virtual crossings along with the classical over/under crossings A virtual crossing is denoted by an intersection of two strands enclosed by a circle.