Aperiodic Order

88-827, Spring 2015

TIME AND PLACE:

Thursdays 13:00-16:00 in Bldg 505, room 66

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION:

Instructor: Boris Solomyak
Office: Bldg 216, room 220
E-mail: bsolom3 "at" gmail.com
Office hours: by appointment.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Word doc file

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: pdf

HOMEWORK AND GRADES:

There will be several homework assignments. The grades will be based on homework and class participation. There will be no exams.


• Assignment 1, due April 16, 2015
• Assignment 2, due May 21, 2015
• Assignment 3, due June 11, 2015
• Assignment 4, due June 25, 2015
  
  

• Lecture 1, March 12, 2015
• Lecture 2, March 19, 2015
• Lecture 3, March 26, 2015
• Lecture 4, April 16, 2015
• Lecture 5, April 30, 2015
• Lecture 6, May 14, 2015
• Lecture 7, May 21, 2015
• Lecture 10, June 11, 2015
• Lecture 11, June 18, 2015
• Lecture 12, June 25, 2015

• What is aperiodic order? by M. Baake, U. Grimm, and R. V. Moody
  
• Tilings Encyclopedia, developed by E. Harriss and D. Frettlöh
  
• Substitutions book by N. Pytheas Fogg
  
• Symbolic Dynamics and Tilings of R^d by E. A.Robinson
  
• Tilings and Dynamics by B. Solomyak