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30/09/2004 01/10/2004

Workshop on "Real and Virtual Architectures of Molecules and Crystals"

Topologically and chemically unprecendented spherical-icosahedral capsules containing 20 pores and channels and a cavity, allow encapsulation of topologically and chemically unusual matter under confined conditions. This includes the generation and observation of unusual structures, e.g. of water with and without electrolytes and of other materials. Icosahedral water clusters can be generated - formally built up from Platonic and Archimedean solids showing the Golden Section - including the famous dodecahedron which stimulated Linus Pauling to new ideas. Furtheron, toplogically interesting tilings of the sphere due to the abundance of pores are possible.

To summarize: New interesting challenges for discrete geometry arise from recent progress in chemistry, and it is the intention of the workshop to focus these challenges jointly, from the point of view of chemistry and that of mathematics.

Speakers

Olaf Delgado

Universität Tübingen

Marc Henry

Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

Adalbert Kerber

Universität Bayreuth

Harald Krautscheid

Universität Leipzig

Achim Müller

Universität Bielefeld

Francis Taulelle

Université de Versailles

Program

14:00 - 14:10 Andreas Dress (MPI MIS, Leipzig, Germany)
14:10 - 14:30 Andreas Dress (MPI MIS, Leipzig, Germany)
14:30 - 15:30 Achim Müller (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)
From Porous Capsules/Artificial Cells to Sphere Surface and Super-Supramolecular Chemistry
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:45 Marc Henry (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
Euler's rule in molecular chemistry
16:45 - 17:30 Harald Krautscheid (Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany)
17:30 - 18:15 Olaf Delgado (Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
Crystal topologies and discrete mathematics
18:15 - 19:00 Francis Taulelle (Université de Versailles, Versailles, France)

Scientific Organizers

Jürgen Jost

Leipzig Homepage

Andreas Dress

Leipzig Homepage

Administrative Contact

Antje Vandenberg