DIMACS Workshop on Computers in Scientific Discovery III

February 6 - 9, 2006
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Organizers:
Gunnar Brinkmann, Ghent University, Gunnar.Brinkmann@UGent.be
Patrick W. Fowler, University of Sheffield, P.W.Fowler@sheffield.ac.uk

Organizing Committee:
Arnout Ceulemans, Mel Janowitz, Martine Labbé, Hadrien Mélot

Local Organizing Committee:
Kris Coolsaet, Veerle Fack, Adriaan Peeters,
Ghent University

Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Data Analysis and Mining and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).


Link to Computers in Scientific Discovery III, Ghent University Website

Workshop Program:

Monday, February 6, 2006

 9:00 - 10:00 Isomorphism and Automorphisms of Combinatorial Objects
              Keynote Speaker: Brendan McKay, Australian National University, Canberra

10:00 - 10:30 Graphs, Permutations and Sets in Genome Rearrangement
              Anthony Labarre

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 What is High Performance Mathematics?
              Jon Borwein

11:30 - 11:45 New Results in Constrained Circle Packings
              Tibor Tarnai

11:45 - 12:00 Computer Algebra Experimentation in Algebraic Combinatorics
              Mikhail Klin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

12:30 -  2:30 Lunch/Free time

 2:30 -  3:00 A knowledge-based system for the support of graph-theoretical proofs
              Dieter Gernert

 3:00 -  3:30 Using LINK for Research on Tournaments
              Brenda Latka

 3:30 -  4:00 Clustering the Protein Databank
              Eric Breimer

 4:00 -  5:00 Informal Discussion and tea

 5:00         Automated Comparison of Graph Invariants
              Keynote speaker: Pierre Hansen, GERAD and HEC Montréal

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

 9:00 - 10:00 History and Progress of Structure Enumeration in Chemistry
              Keynote speaker: Adalbert Kerber, University of Bayreuth

10:00 - 10:30 From CID Threshold Measurements to Kinetic and Thermodynamic Information
              Sanja Narancic

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Conjectures on configurations
              Harald Gropp

11:30 - 12:30 Mathematics/Conjecturing Round tables

12:30 -  1:30 The new developments of the AutoGraphiX system
              Gilles Caporossi

 1:00 - 2:30  Lunch/Excursion

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

 9:00 - 9:30  On Symmetry and Topological Indices of Fullerenes
              Ali Reza Ashrafi, University of Kashan, Iran

 9:30 - 10:00 On Goldberg Transformations and their Applications to Simple Polyhedra
              Peter John, Ilmenau Technical University

10:00 - 10:30 The Software Design of Grinvin
              Adriaan Peeters, Ghent University

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 The Evolution of GraPHedron
              Hadrien Mélot

11:30 - 12:30 Chemistry/Software Round tables

12:30 -  2:30 Lunch/Free time

 2:30 -  3:00 Topology-Aided Molecular Design: The Platonic Molecules of Genera 0 to 3
              Erwin Lijnen, University of Leuven, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium

 3:00 -  3:30 Detection and Phylogenetic Resolution of Conflicting 
              Phylogenetic Signals in Gene-Sequence Data
              Mark Pagel, Reading University, England

 3:30 -  4:00 On the Steiner Quadruple Systems of Order 16
              Patric Östergĺrd

 4:00 -  5:00 Informal Discussion and tea

 5:00         Graph Invariants of Importance in Chemistry
              Keynote speaker: Ivan Gutman

Thrusday, February 9, 2006

 9:00 - 10:00 Visualization Software for Scientific Discovery in Toponome Research
              Keynote speaker: Andreas Dress, MPI Leipzig/Shanghai

10:00 - 10:30 Supra-Coverings in Nanostructures
              Mircea Diudea

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Fuigui: A graphical user interface for investigating
              conjectures about fullerenes
              Wendy Myrvold

11:30 - 12:30 Bio/Education Round tables

12:30 -  2:30 Lunch/Free time

 2:30 -  3:00 Phylogenetic Networks
              Vince Moulton, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

 3:00 -  3:30 Fullerenes and the Problems of Thomson and Tammes
              Jack Graver

 4:30 -  5:30 The influence of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences on research
              Keynote speaker: Neil J. A. Sloane, AT&T Shannon Lab

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