Please join us for the 11^th Annual Balas Lecture given by Dr. Erica Flapan, Editor in Chief of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Zoom Room: https://uwec-edu.zoom.us/j/82139457644?pwd=Zy9KSllOczMvWW9jU3hqT0NOejY5QT09 (Links to an external site.)

Meeting ID: 821 3945 7644, Passcode: math2021

Dr. Erica Flapan

An Introduction to Spatial Graph Theory

Spatial graph theory developed in the early 1980’s when topologists began using the tools of knot theory to study graphs embedded in 3-dimensional space. Later, this area came to be known as spatial graph theory to distinguish it from the study of abstract graphs. Much of the current work in spatial graph theory can trace its roots back either to the ground break- ing results of John Conway and Cameron Gordon on intrinsic knotting and linking of graphs or to the topology of non-rigid molecules. This talk will present the history of spatial graph theory and survey some of the current trends in the field. No background is required to understand the talk.