Mathematical Sciences: The Knotting of Graphs in Three-Space
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Professor Litherland plans to investigate algebraic                     invariants of knots of graphs in three-space.  He has shown how                 to define an Alexander polynomial for a knot of a theta-curve,                  which may detect chirality, and intends to look both for                        extensions of this polynomial to other graphs and for analogues                 of the new link polynomials.  In part this research is driven by                the hope of applications to organic chemistry, where an attempt                 is being made to correlate properties of knotted molecules with                 their topological invariants.
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