Week 1 |   |
Tue. June 20 | S. Chmutov,  Introduction. The Kauffman bracket. |
Thu. June 22 | S. Chmutov,  Ribbon graphs and the Bollobás-Riordan polynomial. |
Week 2 |   |
Tue. June 27 | Pramod Achar,  Complex Reflection group,   special video-lecture from the Louisiana State University. |
Thu. June 29 | S. Chmutov,  Matroids. |
Week 3 |   |
Thu. July 6 | S. Chmutov,  Vassiliev knot invariants. |
Week 4 |   |
Tue. July 11 | S. Chmutov,  Projects overview. | Thu. July 13 | Video conference with
LSU, LSU presenters:       Mary Radcliffe, Clock Lattices of Plane Graph Spanning Trees.       Robin Lassonde, Flow Algebra in C.       Mike Locke, Bipartite Dessins and Tiger Graphs. OSU presenters:       Shaun Van Ault, Computer programs for the Kauffman bracket, the Jones polynomial, and the Bollobás-Riordan polynomial.       Michael (Cap) Khoury, Polyak-Viro formulas for Vassiliev invariants. |
Week 5 |   |
Tue. July 18 | Shaun Van Ault,  Coefficients of the Kauffman bracket. |
Week 6 |   |
Tue. July 25 | Jeremy Voltz,  Thistlethwaite's theorem for virtual links. |
Week 7 |   |
Fri-Sun. August 4-6 | Young Mathematicians Conference, |
Week 8 |   |
Thu. August 10 | Nicholas Kefauver, Nishali Mehta, Alex Mominee,  The Tutte, flow, and tension polynomials of graphs. |
Week 9 |   |
Tue. August 15 | James Sharpnack, Justin Wiser,  Hamilton cycles in Cayley graphs. |
Thu. August 17 | Charles Estill, Daniel Grollmus, Min Ro,  Strong maps of matroids. |
Week 10 |   |
Tue. August 22 | Michael Khoury, Alfred Rossi,  Polyak-Viro formulas for Vassiliev invariants. |