Mathematical challenges of solid crystalline materials.

28^th January 2019, 11:00 Ground floor boardroom, MIF
Vitaliy Kurlin
MIF

Abstract

The talk will introduce periodic structures that model all solid crystalline materials, for example molecular crystals, covalent organic frameworks and inorganic crystals based on isolated atoms or ions. The key problems of materials discovery will be stated in mathematical terms: what structures should be equivalent and how to quantify a similarity between crystals. We will discuss several requirements for potentials solutions that should work for real crystals.