@MISC\{IMM2013-06668, author = "S. E. Hansen", title = "The Merino Welsh Conjecture", year = "2013", publisher = "Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science", address = "Matematiktorvet, Building 303B, {DK-}2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, compute@compute.dtu.dk", note = "{DTU} supervisor: Carsten Thomassen, ctho@dtu.dk, {DTU} Compute", url = "http://www.compute.dtu.dk/English.aspx", abstract = "The goal of the thesis is to explain the Merino Welsh conjecture and related results to a degree understandable to a student of mathematics unfamiliar with the subject area. Specifically I deal with an article by my thesis advisor Carsten Thomassen titled {''}Spanning trees and orientations in graphs{''} published in 2010. I also explore some new results of my own related to the Merino Welsh conjecture." }