Tuesday, March 26, 2002 B106 Wells Hall:

• Abstract. Polyhedra, particularly regular ones such as the tetrahedron or the icosahedron have been studied by Geometers since the time of Plato. They appear in modern science in the shape of crystals and more recently in the Fullerenes of Carbon Chemistry. I will discuss problems in which polyhedra with some form of regularity appear as minimum energy configurations. I will exhibit pictures emerging from computer simulation.
  

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