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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.