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Intrinsically Knotted Graphs

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Jesse Johnson, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Wed, May 10 2006, 12:10PM

Conway and Gordon showed that every embedding into the 3-sphere of the complete graph on seven vertices contains a non-trivial knot. A graph with this property is called intrinsically knotted. I will discuss the problem of classifying such graphs.