Rope Magic

Typically performing as a duo, Allison was unable to make it to the JMM. Performing a solo act, Louis will show his amazing rope magic tricks.

Allison Henrich

Allison Henrich is a professor of mathematics at Seattle University and editor of MAA FOCUS. She has helped to create several books, including Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey, The Encyclopedia of Knot Theory, and An Interactive Introduction to Knot Theory. She enjoys studying knotty games, puzzles, and magic tricks, and she is working on a book with Louis Kauffman on the subject. Allison also collaborates with artist Esther Loopstra to cohost the Flow into Authenticity podcast. The duo is looking forward to the publication in 2024 of their first jointly-authored book, Think Like an Artist, Create Like a Mathematician.

Lean more about Allison at https://www.allisonhenrich.com/

Louis Kauffman

Louis Kauffman received the degree of B.S. in Mathematics from MIT in 1966 and PhD.
in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1972. He taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from January 1971 to May 2017 and is now Professor Emeritus. Kauffman’s research is in algebraic topology and particularly in low dimensional topology and knot theory. He is known for the bracket polynomial state model for the Jones polynomial, the Kauffman polynomial, for relating knot polynomials to statistical mechanics and for discovering virtual knot theory, a new field of knot theory. Kauffman is the author of numerous books on knot theory and is the editor of the World-Scientific ‘Book Series On Knots and Everything’. He is the Editor in Chief and founding editor of the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. Kauffman is the recipient of a 1993 University Scholar Award by the University of Illinois at Chicago and he is the 1993 recipient of the 1993 Warren McCulloch Memorial Award of the American Society for Cybernetics for significant contributions to the field of Cybernetics the 1996 award of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association for his contribution to the understanding of discrete physics, the 2014 Norbert Wiener Medal from the American Society for Cybernetics. He is Past President of the American Society for Cybernetics (2005-2008) and a former Polya Lecturer for Mathematical Association of America (2008-20010). He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
in 2014