Postdoc Seminar

Event Information Convex triangulations of the sphere
11:00 on Friday October 26, 2018
12:00 on Friday October 26, 2018
HU1018, 215 Huron St.
Philip Engel

University of Georgia

How many buckyballs are there with 2n carbon atoms? Equivalently, how many triangulations of the sphere are there with 2n triangles, so that each vertex has valence 6 or less? I will describe joint work with Peter Smillie which shows that if one counts with the correct weight, the answer is exactly 809/2612138803200 * sigma_9(n) where sigma_9(n) is the sum of the ninth powers of the divisors of n.

The Postdocs Seminar is a series of informal talks by Postdoctoral fellows. The aim is to learn some basics about each others research areas and to get into contact.