10th Computers in Scientific Discoveries conference
Between 28 and 30 May 2024, the "Computers in Scientific Discoveries (CSD10)" conference took place at the University of Leuven in Belgium, bringing together researchers from the fields of mathematics, computer science, chemistry, and graph theory the 10th edition of this conference.
This year's conference relied on mathematical chemistry and graph theory. Prof. Dr. Tomaž Pisanski and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nino Bašić from the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies at UP FAMNIT shared their best practices as keynote speakers.
The lectures also included a section dedicated to the 75th birthday of Prof. Pisanski, a distinguished researcher in discrete and computational mathematics, and a long-time supporter of CSD. During the conference, Prof. Dr. Pisanski presented a lecture titled "Drawing graphs with geometric symmetry."
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bašić contributed with his lecture titled "Nut graphs and their symmetry" and Prof. dr. Klavdija Kutnar, Rector of UP, was a member of the CSD10 Scientific Committee.
At the 10th meeting, participants continued the deliberate multidisciplinary focus of these conferences, provided space for collaboration and continuation of the results of previous meetings, and expanded the range of topics covered.
The CSD conferences have demonstrated the existence of an enthusiastic community of researchers on several continents who are active in the fields of chemistry, computer science, and discrete mathematics. The series of CSD workshops and conferences began at Rutgers University with a workshop on discrete mathematical chemistry in 1998 in New Brunswick, USA. Eight years later, the sixth conference was held in Portorož and co-organized by UP IAM, UP FAMNIT, UP FTŠ - Turistica, IMFM - Institute of Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics and UL FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. At CSD6 we were visited by scientist and lecturer Prof. Dr. Sir Harold Kroto, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, together with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. A year later, the prestigious laureate was awarded the UP Honorary Doctorate for 2013.
The next edition of the conference (CSD11), will take place in Slovenia in 2026, in organization of UP. For he next event, a special section will be dedicated to Prof. Dr. Patrick William Fowler, as he will celebrate his 70th birthday at the beginning of May 2026.
