RUI: Crossing numbers for topological drawings of the complete graph, rotation schemes, and interior triple systems.

This award supports the Principal Investigator's research in Mathematics with a focus on the study of crossing numbers. Crossing numbers date back to World War II, when the mathematician Paul Turán worked on a labor camp moving carts filled with bricks from kilns to storage places using a railway system. In his own words ''...the work itself was not difficult; the trouble was only...