Hi all,
We have a Junior Colloquium tomorrow, on a topic that sounds very interesting. Hope you can make it.
Remus
JUNIOR COLLOQUIUM
TIME: 3:35 - 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 405
SPEAKER: Prof. Natalie Frank, Chair of Mathematics, Vassar College
TITLE: Tiling: a mathematical model of crystals and quasicrystals
ABSTRACT: In 2011, Daniel Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. This discovery, in 1982, required a rethinking of how to describe the atomic structure of highly organized solids. Fortunately, the mathematics community had been working for over a decade on the sort of tilings that have such a structure. We'll tell the story of how tilings came to be used as models for quasicrystals, and discuss some of the mathematics.
Pizza will be available at 3:10 p.m.
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