Math Lecture & Seminar at Texas A&M university - Prof. Neil Robertson

Texas A&M University at Galveston has the honor of a visit from a leading mathematician, Neil Robertson who during the last few decades has participated in a research program developing the theory of graph minors. This work reveals fundamentals about graph embeddings in various manifolds. For example: a graph is embeddable without crossings in a surface if & only if it does not contain one of a finite set of forbidden minors. Another is: a graph can be embedded in 3-dimensional space without knotting if & only if it does not have a minor belonging to a set of 7 graphs. The work delves farther into a general “graph structure theory”.
Professor Robertson has offered to give 2 lectures, with the first being more introductory and expository nature, while the second delves more deeply into his research. You are welcome to come to visit us.
The first lecture is at 3pm on Friday the 24th in CLB 112, and the second talk is at 4pm. The location is on Pelican Island immediately adjacent to Galveston Island.

Direction:
To get there from Houston, we have some directions:
(1) Follow I-45 South from Houston (passing NASA area at mile-post ~30), and (at mile post ~2) cross the causeway to Galveston Island.
(2) Within the first mile on the island, take exit 1C onto Teichman Ro
(3) After a block or so, turn left at the stop light onto Harborside Drive, go under the over-pass, and continue following Harborside for ~2 miles through the third stoplight.
(4) At the fourth light, at the top of an overpass, turn left onto Seawolf Parkway and continue across a small causeway to Pelican Island.
(5) About 2 blocks onto Pelican Island, the TAMUG/Mitchell-Campus main entrance appears on the right, where you turn in, to follow the road, first to the right for about 2 blocks, whence a parking lot appears on the left.
(6) Parking there, enter the CLB building which is ahead on the left when entering the parking lot. The room CLB 112 is down the hallway on the first floor.

After the seminar we plan to go out to dinner at one of the restaurants in Galveston – probably a seafood restaurant, of which there are several, either in the historic downtown or facing the Gulf along the seawall.