Penrose tilings and the imagination

Időpont: 
2022. 04. 20. 15:00
Hely: 
K350
Előadó: 
Marjorie Senechal (Smith College)

To mark the 50th anniversary of Roger Penrose's first steps toward the now world-famous Penrose tilings, we show that these tilings in turn have inspired scientific, geometric, and artistic imaginations. Specific examples include the 2011 Nobel prize in Chemistry, the notion of a stem cell of the solid state, and the "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium in Beijing.