Extra comments:Talk can be livestreamed on zoom meeting ID 986 2892 7517 - send request to jonathan.pakianathan@rochester.edu at least 2 days before talk to guarantee this option. Video of the lecture will be made available after the talk also (not live).

Abstract: Regular maps are objects that have been studied since antiquity by great geometers like Euclid, Kepler, Cauchy, Coxeter, Grünbaum, etc. Every regular map has faces consisting of the same polygons of certain number of sides and which surround a vertex by equal number. One may postulate the existence of a regular map by these numbers. In this talk, we will discuss a systematic approach to determine if such a map exists given enough computational power.