Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium

MGSC Website: http://math.uci.edu/~mgsc/

Modeling Quasicrystals:
An application of hyperbolic dynamics

May Mei
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm
RH 306

Talk Abstract:

The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of quasicrystals has spurred much work in aperiodic sequences and tilings. One such example is the family of one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger operators with potentials given by primitive invertible substitutions on two letters, which are a one-dimensional model of quasicrystals. We prove results about spectral properties of these operators using tools from hyperbolic dynamics.

About the Speaker:

May Mei received her B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and has been a graduate student in mathematics at the University of California, Irvine ever since. When she isn't working on research, she can be found at the Dollar Spot at Target or scouting new restaurants on Yelp.

Refreshments:

Pizza will be served after the talk.