Knots and Graphs


VIGRE Working Group [Summer 2007]
MATH 693, call number 12009-3, 3 credits
June 18 --- August 20, 2007

Instructor: Sergei Chmutov
Office MA-438. Phone 688-3177

Wednesday 2:30-3:30, MA-417, and Friday, 2:30-3:30, MW-154

  • Department announcement
  • List of participants
  • Research projects
  • Schedule
  • References
  • D.Bar-Natan's Knot Atlas
  • Shaun Van Ault's program for computing the Bollobás-Riordan polynomial.


    Guest Lecture.
    Neil Robertson
    , Reconstruction problem for graphs. Wednesday, July 11, 2:30-3:30, MA-417.


    Handouts
  • The Tutte polynbomial.
  • The Bollobás-Riordan polynomial.
  • Matroids.        Matroids on Wikipedia.
  • Knots & Links.
  • Vertex reconstruction puzzles.
  • Edge reconstruction puzzles.