Date: October, 9th, Tuesday
Time: 11:45 am
Place: Little 339 (the Atrium)
Speaker: Micah Coleman


Drinks and Pizza will be provided after the talk

Title:  How Combinatorics is Saving the World Part III: The Wiener
Index as a Topological Invariant in Mathematical Chemistry and
its Myriad Applications to the Understanding of Phenylenes,
Hydrocarbons, and other Molecules and their Interactions.
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Abstract:

 This is the third of a four-part series surveying the numerous
contributions of combinatorics in various fields of the
natural sciences. The Wiener index is a graph theoretic property
which allows us to roughly measure the size of a graph or volume of a corresponding
molecule. We will define the Wiener index, discuss some of its
applications in mathematical chemistry, and review some of the
recent results.

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