Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College

Extremal graph theory asks how many edges a graph can have while avoiding a given substructure. We will begin with a brief, accessible introduction to this area, before turning to a natural variant, the bipartite Turan number $(m,n;H)$, which restricts the host graph to be bipartite. This setting is especially natural when $H$ itself is […]

The Jones Polynomial is an important invariant of knots with applications in physics, quantum computation and more. In this talk I will introduce a family of generalizations of the Jones […]