Everyone is familiar with knots. There are simple knots, such as those we master when we’re five-year-olds learning to tie our shoelaces.

IGL students Cora McVey, Anna Chlopecki, Tejo Nutalapati, Alan Zhou give a great talk about "The Four Color Theorem - Solving a 124 Year Old Problem" in the Champaign County History Museum Monthly Speaker Series.

The Illinois Geometry Lab hosted a Four Color-themed Open House for K-12 students and community members on Saturday, November 4 in the Alice Campbell Alumni Center.

IGL undergraduate student Mateo Muro presented work done in the Summer 2017 research project Graph Theory and Quantum Statistical Mechanics (mentored by Ivan Contreras) at the 2017 Young Mathematic

IGL undergraduate student Yingying Ren presented work done in the Fall 2016/Spring 2017 research project Polyhedral Geometry for Analysis Phylogenetic Methods (mentored by Ruth Davidson and Rosemar