Speaker: 

Siegfried Beckus

Institution: 

University of Potsdam

Time: 

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

We study Sturmian dynamical systems and the spectrum of Schrödinger operators associated with these systems. Plotting the spectrum for each dynamical system gives rise to the so-called Kohmoto butterfly. In this talk we will discuss this butterfly, compare it with the Hofstadter butterfly and draw connections to so-called Farey numbers.