Knot theory and Combinatorics
VIGRE Working Group [Summer 2005]

List of participants

Undegraduate students

Project

1.  Timothy All (all.3@osu.edu) Kauffman bracket on non-orientable surfaces.
2.  Adam Chawansky (chawansky.2@osu.edu) Planarity of graphs.
3.  Michael Chmutov (chmutov@mps.ohio-state.edu) Chromatic homology of graphs.
4.  Thomas LaPille (lapille.2@osu.edu) HOMFLY polynomial and ribbon graphs.
5.  Donny Seelig (seelig.6@osu.edu) Planarity of graphs.
6.  James Sharpnack (sharpnack.5@osu.edu) Matroids.
7.  Gabor Revesz (revesz.2@osu.edu) Jones polynomial of virtual knots.
8.  Elena Udovina (eudovina@fas.harvard.edu) Chromatic homology of graphs.

Graduate students

Project

1.  Shaun Van Ault (ault@math.ohio-state.edu) Khovanov homology of links.
2.  Daniel File (file@math.ohio-state.edu) Homology of virtual links.
3.  Michael Khoury (khoury@math.ohio-state.edu) Vassiliev knot invariants
4.  Philip Kilanowski (pdk@math.ohio-state.edu) Homology of virtual links.
5.  William Mance (mance@math.ohio-state.edu) Matroids.
6.  Avi Silterra (silterra@math.ohio-state.edu) Matroids.
7.  Michael Tychonievich (tycho@math.ohio-state.edu) Homology of virtual links.
8.  Alex Ustian (ustian.1@osu.edu) Categorification of the Tutte polynomial