CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar: Quasiperiodic prints from triply periodic blocks

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February 3, 2022 9:00 am - 10:00 am
via Zoom Video Conferencing
Speaker:

Aaron Fenyes - Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques


Slice a triply periodic wooden sculpture along an irrational plane. If you ink the cut surface and press it against a page, the pattern you print will be quasiperiodic. Patterns like these help physicists see how metals conduct electricity in strong magnetic fields. I’ll show you some block prints that imitate the printing process described above, and I’ll point out the visual features that reveal conductivity properties.


Zoom ID: 950 2372 5230 (Password: cmsa)


Interactive slides: https://www.ihes.fr/~fenyes/seeing/slices/