Orateur
Thomas Fernique
Description
In this talk, I will illustrate the important role of visualization—both in generating ideas and in illustrating them—in three of my research topics:
* Tilings, particularly tilings of the Euclidean plane obtained by digitizing planes in high-dimensional spaces (e.g., Penrose tilings).
* Packings, specifically disk and sphere packings that aim to maximize density.
* Fullerenes, in connection with the edge-unfolding conjecture and the approximation of isoperimetric quotients.