Schedule

Week 1
Tu. June 19	S.Chmutov,  Introduction. Knots and their Jones polynomial.    Handout.
Th. June 21	S.Chmutov,  The Tutte polynomial.    Handout.    Wikipedia.
Week 2
Tu. June 26	S.Chmutov,  Matroids. Handout.    Wikipedia.
Th. June 28	S.Chmutov,  Polynomials for matroids and graphs on surfaces.    Handout.
Week 3
Tu. July 3	B.O'Connor, E.Zwick, N.Taylor,  Arrow polynomial and extended bracket.
Th. July 5	J.H.Chun, R.Baidya, T.Friesen, P.Tian,  X-graphs and X-embeddings.
Week 4
Tu. July 10	J.Michel, J.Arter, K.Huang, N.Kosar,   Higher dimensional flow and Krushkal-Renardi polynomials.
Th. July 12	A.Krieger, I.Smith, A.Weisman,  Quasi-trees.
Week 5
Th. July 17	R.Baidya, T.Friesen, P.Tian,  Proof of the Vassiliev criteria for X-planarity.
Tu. July 10	J.Michel, J.Arter, K.Huang, N.Kosar,   Examples of higher dimensional flow polynomials.
Week 6
Th. July 24	A.Krieger, I.Smith, A.Weisman,  Matrix quasi-tree theorem for one vertex ribbon graphs. Planarity of graphs
Tu. July 26	B.O'Connor, E.Zwick, N.Taylor,  Parity for virtual links.
Week 7
Tu. July 31	Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro (University of Puerto Rico),  Workshop on the Khovanov homology.
Th. August 2	Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro (University of Puerto Rico),  Workshop on the Khovanov homology.