Thursday, July 31, 2014.  Thesis defense. (Advisor: Robert Franzosa) Sophia Potoczak, UMaine Math MA candidate. “A survey of graph embeddings into compact surfaces” 10:00 – 10:50 am, 421 Neville Hall. A prominent question of topological graph theory is “What type of surface can a nonplanar graph be embedded into?” This thesis has two main goals. First