Schedule

Week 1
Tu. June 21	S. Chmutov,  Introduction. The Tutte polynomial. Handout.    Wikipedia.
Th. June 23	S. Chmutov,  Matroids. Handout.    Wikipedia.
Week 2
Tu. June 28	S. Chmutov,  The Las Vergnas and Bollobás-Riordan polynomials. Handout.
Th. June 30	S. Chmutov,  Links. The Conway polynomial. Handout.
Week 3
Tu. July 5	S. Chmutov,  The Jones polynomial. Handout.
Th. July 7	S. Chmutov,  Other polynomials. Vassiliev invariants. Handout.
Week 4
Tu. July 12	J. Michel,  Las Vergnas and Krushkal polynomials.
Th. July 14	R.Ivancic, B.O'Connor,  Arrow polynomial and Gauss diagrams
Week 5
Tu. July 19	C.Bajo, B.Burdick,  Matrix-tree Theorem.
Th. July 21	S.Collins, P.Schnell,  Matrix-tree Theorem.
Week 6
Tu. July 26	J.H.Chun, A.Krieger,  Planarity of graphs
Th. July 28	J. Michel,  Examples of graphs with the same Las Vergnas but different Krushkal polynomials.
Week 7
Tu. August 2	R.Ivancic, B.O'Connor,  Kauffnam's extended bracket polynomial for virtual links.
Th. August 4	C.Bajo, B.Burdick,  Krushkal-Renardy polynomial of cell complexes.
Week 8
Tu. August 9	S.Collins, P.Schnell,  Pfaffians and perfect matchings.
Th. August 11	J.H.Chun, A.Krieger,  X-embeddings of X-graphs.
Week 9
Tu. August 16	Guest Lecture. Theodore Dokos,  Patterns in Permutations and St-Wilf Equivalence.
Th. August 18	Guest Lecture. Neal Stoltzfus (LSU)