Abstract / résumé
Name / nom: Marsha Minchenko
School / école: University of Victoria
Length / durée: 25 min
Title / titre: Fullerenes and FUIGUI, an Automated Visualization
Tool
Abstract / résumé: Fullerenes are carbon molecules that have in most recent times
sparked the interest of many people from a variety of subject areas
including mathematics and computer science. Mathematically, fullerene
structures correspond to planar graphs that are 3-regular with faces of
either 5 or 6 sides. The study of these mathematical models has led to
many
interesting inquiries and results; there are even those for which the
relevance to the chemistry of the actual fullerenes is immediately
apparent.
In many ways the fact that we have a means to model fullerenes, due to
their
ideal structure, is itself an aide in research. Thus it makes sense to
enhance this visual or graphical component of fullerene research. Computer
programs are often used as a tool for graphics generation and display and
often play a role in the discovery of conjectures. Among other things, in
this talk we will make use of FUIGUI, a system for visualizing fullerenes
and aiding research regarding their parameters.
Prerequisites / choses nécessaires: This talk requires some
basic knowledge of graph theory.
PDF format / format PDF: minchenko.pdf