Events

Algebra/Topology Seminar – Elena Pavelescu, University of South Alabama

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: Complete minors of self-complementary graphs. Abstract: A self-complementary graph on n vertices is a graph which is isomorphic to its graph complement within K_n,  the complete graph on n vertices.  These graphs have a high degree of structure, and yet they are far from trivial. This talk focuses on minors of self-complementary graphs. Minors

Algebra/Topology Seminar – Patricia Cahn (Smith College)

346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Title: Colored Tri-Plane Diagrams and the Slice-Ribbon Problem Abstract: We study dihedral branched covers of the four-dimensional sphere, where the branching set is a surface with one singularity modeled on the cone on a knot K.   We construct examples of these covers using colored tri-plane diagrams, which are triples of tangles that can be used