Non-Separating Embeddings of Graphs in Closed Surfaces

This term the seminar is dedicated to students who want to do research, and to faculty who want to jump in and help generate ideas. The emphasis is on interaction and generating new ideas. Speakers should prepare clear and simple presentations of basic underlying ideas. Technical prowess is appreciated when alluded at, but less so when expounded and insisted upon. More than the details of any single proof or calculation, we aim to understand the principles underpinning those.