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Abstract: At present, the fullerene classification problem is well-known and is important due to the applications in chemistry, physics, biology and nanotechnology. A mathematical fullerene is a three-dimensional convex simple polytope with all 2-faces being pentagons and hexagons. The talk is devoted to fundamental connections between the mathematical theory of fullerenes and geometric combinatorics, graph theory, the four-color problem, Coxeter groups, Pogorelov polyhedra, and Lobachevsky geometry. We present applications to the fullerene classification problem and to the classical problem of three-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds.
Bio: Prof. Victor Buchstaber is a Chief Scientific Researcher at Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS and a Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is a Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are geometry, topology and integrable systems.
